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Financing Film Projects - Challenges and Opportunities
Date: Fri 21 Nov
Time: 11.15am – 12.30pm
Type: Talk
Venue: F202, LASALLE College of the Arts
Admission: Free. Seats on first-come, first-serve basis.
It is anticipated that this will be an interactive discussion session between Lord David Puttnam and film students and industry professionals.
Potential discussion points include:
• How can filmmakers remain creative and resourceful when sourcing for funding for their projects? What options can they consider?
• What new opportunities/new business models may emerge? For instance, will filmmakers, unable to secure funding for projects, move towards the online space to sell their ideas and productions directly?
• Where does Lord David Puttnam see the industry heading? What will change / what will not change? Are there any lessons that we can learn from the history of the media industry?
• Any other views/words of advice from Lord David Puttnam to aspiring filmmakers and current industry players
This talk is presented by The Puttnam School of Film, LASALLE.
About Lord David Puttnam
The son of an Army Film Unit cameraman, Lord David Puttnam began as a photographers' agent, spent ten years in the advertising industry, and in the 1970s he took on the producing and marketing of British films and had major successes with the musicals, That'll Be the Day (d. Claude Whatham, 1973) and Stardust (d. Michael Apted, 1974) and with Alan Parker's tough Midnight Express (1978). He scored a huge hit with Chariots of Fire (d. Hugh Hudson, 1981) and his own company, Enigma Films, was a key contributor to some of the most critically acclaimed films of the 1980s and 1990s: Local Hero (d. Bill Forsyth, 1983), The Killing Fields (d. Roland Joffé, 1984) or the prestigious The Mission (d. Joffé, 1986).
In 1986 he took a position as head of Columbia Pictures – the only non-American ever to have run a Hollywood Studio - and resigned a year later, having failed to turn its fortunes around or stiffen the moral fiber of its movies, and he relocated to England. He remains a force to be reckoned with in British cinema. In 1999 he produced My Life So Far, directed by Chariots colleague, Hugh Hudson.
Awarded the CBE in 1982, received a Knighthood in 1995 and was appointed to the House of Lords with a life peerage in 1997, he has recently concentrated his attentions more on politics. Since then he has put his considerable energy into supporting education and the media, and serves on a variety of public bodies. He has been Chancellor of the University of Sunderland since 1998 and was awarded recently an Honorary Doctor of Letters (HonDLitt) by the University of Greenwich.
In July 2002, he was appointed President of UNICEF UK. In France he has been honored as a Chevalier and, later, an Officer of Arts and Letters.
Lord David Puttnam, officially launched The Puttnam School of Film at LASALLE, which wil play a key role in the film industry and propel the development of film content for an international audience.
