Media Brand Workshop Conversations & New Media Film Festival

Hi Everyone,

I hope you are doing great! 

In this email you'll find information about:

1) Upcoming Media Brand Workshop
Conversation Guests Weds. 9/1 with
Jay Maharjan & Sat. 9/4 with Alexis Niki

2) Live In-Person Screenwriting Career
Workshop on Weds. 9/8 at ShowBiz Store
& Cafe - No Cost!

3) MP3s from Recent Media Brand Workshop
Conversation Guests plus "Engaging Your
Audience From the Get-Go" Presentation by
Colleen Nystedt of Movieset.com

4) Information about New Media Film Festival
and the upcoming
New Media Film Festival-SF Bay Area, Nov 5 - 7th. 

5) Film & Content Submission Opportunities
for New Media Film Festival &
New Media Film Festival-SF Bay Area

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1) Upcoming Media Brand Workshop
Conversation Guests Wednesday 9/1
with Jay Maharjan & Saturday 9/4
with Alexis Niki

We've gotten a terrific response
from our Media Brand Workshop
Conversations and an exciting line-up
of guests scheduled for this Fall. 

We've got two calls this week on
Wednesday at 5:30PM PT and on
Saturday at 10AM PT. 

Join us Wednesday, September 1st
5:30 PM PT / 7:30PM CT / 8:30PM ET
Our Q&A is with Jay Marahjan of
4Entrepreneur.net on social media
and success secrets for the creative
artist as entrepreneur. 
Register & ask your questions
at: bit.ly/bf4ljQ

Join us Saturday, September 4th
10AM PT / 12PM CT / 1PM ET
Our Q&A is with Alexis Niki,
Writer/Producer of MY BITCHY WITCHY
PARIS VACATION on creating
and marketing web series. 
Register & ask your questions
at: bit.ly/aB2XIo


2) Live In-Person Screenwriting Career
Workshop on Weds. 9/8 at ShowBiz Store
& Cafe - No Cost!
Wednesday, September 8
I will be presenting a live
in-person event in LA:
Screenwriting Career Workshop
at the ShowBiz Store & Cafe
at 500 S. Sepulveda Blvd. 
We start at 7PM. 
It will be a lot of fun!  
RSVP: philippa@screenwritingcareer.com


3) MP3s of Media Brand Workshop Conversations
plus "Engaging Your Audience From the Get-Go"
Presentation by Colleen Nystedt of
Movieset.com

Here are some of the MP3s and supplemental
materials from recent calls:

Ralph Scott aka Ed It of
Credit the Edit
www.credittheedit.com
Download MP3: http://bit.ly/bwbuZg

Colleen Nystedt, CEO of Movieset.com
www.movieset.com
Presentation for "Engage Your Audience
from the Get-Go": http://bit.ly/bwbuZg 
Download MP3: http://bit.ly/bJYf9h
Request Professional Invite: http://bit.ly/d5O3OC

Steve Kaplan, Comedy Guru
and Facilitator of
Steve Kaplan Comedy Intensive
www.kaplancomedy.com
Download MP3: http://bit.ly/aPcWEY

Susan Johnston, Founder/Director
New Media Film Festival
www.newmediafilmfestival.com
Download MP3: http://bit.ly/9Q2cZx

4) Information about New Media Film Festival

New Media Film Festival features
The Best in New Media: What's New. What's Next.
The festival has its premiere event in June 2010
at the LA Downtown Independent Theater. 
You can get more information at
www.newmediafilmfestival.com
Submissions are now being accepted for
November 2010 and May 2011 at
www.newmediasubmissions.com
Download 2010 Program Guide: 
http://bit.ly/9chyLz

Link with New Media Film Festival
On Facebook and On Linked In at:
New Media Film Festival
On Twitter Follow at:
@newmediaff and @nmfilmfest_sf

The New Media Film Festival is an
annual event that takes place in Los Angeles.
But there is more...Throughout the year they
are producing additional events and partnering
with other organizations to keep the
conversation going and continue
"Honoring Stories Worth Telling..."

Sept. 26th - Manhattan Shorts
Join in this event in conjunction with
Showbiz Software and MingleMediaTV. Screening
to be held at KessPro Studios in Downtown LA.

Nov. 5 - 7 - New Media Film Festival-SF Bay Area
This is the event that we're producing! 
We've got great partners and judges in the
mix and are currently bringing in more speakers
and sponsors.  For more information email:
philippa@newmediafilmfestival.com

Volunteer Opportunities - As with any festival it
is only possible with the participation of many
people who lend their time and talents to make
it all possible.  If you are interested in
volunteering in advance of any of our events
or at the event please email Susan Johnston
at director@newmediafilmfestival.com.
For more information about the SF Bay Area
event email philippa@newmediafilmfestival.com

5) Film & Content Submission Opportunities

Nov 5th - 7th - New Media Film Festival-SF Bay Area
brings together industry professionals and
content creators from across film, tv, games,
publishing, web, mobile and technology for
screenings, panels, demos and networking mixers. 
Judges include ILM, Pixar, Summit Entertainment,
Creative Convergence and UTA.
Learn more at: www.newmediafilmfestival.com.

New Media Film Festival accepts mobile, web,
webseries, shorts, animation, iapps and film
& documentaries shot on RED, 5d/7d or in 3D.
There is also a special theme category prize
for SRC (Socially Responsible Content) that is
about anything that has a social responsible
element to it in either in the story or its
production. 

All media submissions are now being accepted
for the May 2011 Los Angeles event.  Submissions
for SF Bay Area are being accepted through
September 30th but as this is a satellite event
submissions are limited to content with SF Bay Area
cast, crew, location, theme or reference. 
Use coupon code NM254 for $5 discount on each
entry. 

Some of our many supporters, speakers
and sponsors for the
New Media Film Festival-SF Bay Area include:

Producers Guild of America
NATPE
IAWTV
San Francisco Writers Conference
SF Film Commission
SF Film Society
ILM
Pixar
Summit Entertainment
Creative Convergence
UTA
Babelgum
Motorola
IndieGoGo
CableReady
Movieset.com
Sell Your Concept Now
LATVFest

Credit the Edit
Media Brand Workshop
Screenwriting Career Intensive
Steve Kaplan's Comedy Intensive
MingleMediaTV
BlogTalkRadio/Sumatra

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Wishing you a very successful Fall 2010. 

To your success,


Philippa


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Invite to Weds 8/25 Call - Q&A with Ralph Scott of Credit the Edit

Hi Everyone,

I hope you are all doing well.

I am writing to invite you to our next
Q&A Call this Wednesday 8/25 at
5:30PM PT / 7:30PM CT / 8:30PM ET

Our guest is Ralph Scott aka Ed It
of Credit the Edit

We'll be discussing how to take your
manuscript or book proposal from
good (or possibly quite bland) to
whiz, bang, wow -- great!
Register at: http://bit.ly/bf4ljQ

And if you missed our last call
with Colleen Nystedt of Movieset.com
we had a great chat about movie
promotion.  We also talked about what
Movieset.com offers to filmmakers
as a free resource to build their
fan base during production.

Listen to the Mp3: bit.ly/bJYf9h
Request Professional Invite: bit.ly/d5O3OC
View Presentation:  bit.ly/a1dTys

Our upcoming schedule of call includes:

Jay Maharjan of 4Entrepreneur.net
Alexis Niki, Writer/Producer of
"My Bitch Witchy Paris Vacation"
Mark Simon of Sell Your Concept Now
Marc Zicree of SuperMentors
...and more!!!

To your success,

Philippa

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Weds. 8/18 Call - Filmmaker Marketing with Movieset.com

Hi Everyone,

I hope you are well.

We've got another great guest this Wednesday, 8/18


5:30PM PT / 7:30PM CT / 8:30PM ET

Join us as I interview:

Colleen Nystedt of MovieSet.com

Movieset.com is an amazing resource (at absolutely no cost)
for filmmakers that supports their marketing and
promotion while the film is still in production.
It's a great tool and I am excited to spread the world.

Colleen Nystedt is also an accomplished producer and
seasoned industry pro working in both Vancouver
and Los Angeles.  She's got great stories to share and
insight to provide about the business.

At 5:30PM PT
Dial In: 712-432-3900
Bridge: 884622#

If you have a question you'd like to ask then definitely sign up at:
www.creativecvg.com/Home/Conversations.aspx

Type in your question so that we can be sure to address it on the call.

See you on the line!

Plus we've got a whole line up of great upcoming guests through the Fall.

This include industry professionals from:
Credit the Edit
4Entrepreneur.net
My Bitchy Witchy Paris Vacation
The Simpsons
SuperMentors
Sell Your Concept Now

We'll also have five intimate meet-n-greet calls with
5 agent/managers for those participating in my
upcoming Screenwriting Career Intensive. You can
learn more about this at www.screenwritingcareer.com.
There is special pricing through the end of the week and
after that it will be sold through The Showbiz Store -- so it
will not be this deeply discounted ever again.

I look forward to having you join us.

To your success,
Philippa

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This Wednesday - Teleconference with Comedy Guru Steve Kaplan

Hello Everybody,

I hope all is well!   I am very excited to let you know
that our call with Comedy Guru Steve Kaplan is
tomorrow Wednesday 8/11 at 5:30pm PT / 8:30pm ET.

If you are interested in learning more about how to
apply comedy in your writing, acting, or just in
everyday life – this is THE GUY!  Don’t miss out!

Register for this call at:  bit.ly/bf4ljQ

Dial In:  712-432-3900
Bridge:  884622#

Hope you can join us and feel free to spread
the word!

To your success,

Philippa

P.S.  We're also having a Screenwriting Career Q&A this
Saturday, 8/14 at 10am PT / 1pm ET -- that you can
register for at: bit.ly/c1ZNxZ

Summer & Fall Roundup - Events & Opportunities

Hi Everyone,

It's August! Hope you are having a terrific summer (or winter) as the case may be for those Down Under.

Creative Convergence just celebrated its 6th anniversary! We incorporated in July 2004 when the company evolved from its original incarnation as the management company Mason Burgess Lifschultz. I co-founded that company in the 1999, so I've got 10 years in as an entrepreneur.

What's really struck me lately is that I have been working in entertainment & media for 20 years now. I got my first internship with The Paltrow Group, Gwenyth's dad Bruce Paltrow, when I was 15 in NYC in the summer of 1990. I also worked as a PA on an ABC Afterschool Special that summer and I remember seeing my first credit on TV when it aired that Fall.

I went from NYC to USC to ICM and then into management. As the business and technology evolved, so did my interests. I am someone who loves to learn and share. I am always interested in solving marketing and creative challenges and bringing people together. Along the way I found a passion for events, technology, and business consulting, and this was important because I loved to help people and the tasks presented to me were much more complex and well outside the scope of traditional management services.

I also found a love for teaching as when it was management, we couldn't take them on as clients without them having something that was market ready with a real understanding of industry, its history, the game and how to play it. In reality a lot of writers are really looking for support, direction and some new insights about how to best approach the business while still in the developmental stage and these courses offered that in spades. This also got me in and out while providing great value without the serious long term and ongoing commitment that is part of a management relationship.

I now see myself as an entertainment professional having personally jettisoned the identity of a literary manager that I'd held for five years after I'd left ICM before and Creative Convergence was founded. The whole name implied that we wanted to support that management was part of the company's role, but that we had a larger vision of what we wanted to do in the entertainment space.

To be clear, we do represent clients and all representation inquiries, should be directed to Brad Kushner at query@creativecvg.com. Or as I recommend to all writers, get someone we know to make the call on your behalf. Professionals always listen when if comes from someone they know at an agency, production company or coverage service such as ScriptPipeline, ScriptShark or Coverage Ink.

As the technology has expanded to allow more people into the system, so have our need to have things filtered. The good news is that there are great, low cost and reputable services to do that while protecting the interest of the writer. We know that when writers and projects are really ready for market they always get "discovered".

These types of services are just some of the hundreds of things we've seen change over the past ten years in business and technology as we've moved from in-person meetings and hard-wired phones to email, web, smartphones, social media, online marketing and digital technologies.  We've watched, and are still watching the film, tv, publishing, media and tech industries transform with old business models and opportunities falling away and new ones emerging.

Any ideas about selling to Hollywood that is written in a book published five years ago is well outdated. It's been my personal crusade to help bridge that knowledge gap -- so that writers and content creators are operating with 21st century information and tools. I also believe that it is important for writers to think of themselves as content creators and make their own inroads into film, tv, publishing and media while seeing them as entirely separate businesses and cultures.

This past year we've been fortunate to have a lot of clients and projects that we're very excited about, many that fit our passion for cross-platform and working with new technologies. We have more then a few things still under wraps that we'll look forward to sharing as they progress.

We've also been active on the conference scene and with our teleseminar courses. I know many of you get our newsletters have connected with us this year through our regular course of business and at NATPE, San Francisco Writers Conference, FTX, The Cable Show, New Media Film Festival, Great American Pitchfest, PitchMart, Produced By Conference, UCLA Vision Awards, LATVFest, LA Shorts Fest, Steve Kaplan's Comedy Intensive and in my Screenwriting Career Intensive and my weekly Media Brand & Marketing Workshop.

One of our bigger projects for Fall 2010 is producing the New Media Film Festival-SF Bay Area Nov 5 - 7. We're really excited about bringing together industry professionals and content creators across film, tv, publishing, games, web, mobile and technology to honor stories worth telling and look at what's new and what's next. Follow on Twitter @nmfilmfest_sf and on Facebook and LinkedIn at New Media Film Festival.
One of the projects that recently came out of my Signature Story Media Brand & Marketing Workshop is writer/producer Alexis Niki's web series "My Bitchy Witch Paris Vacation." This series will be coming out this Fall and in addition to being a Consulting Producer on the project I am looking forward to being on the marketing team. Follow on Twitter @bwthefilm and on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/MBWPV

Here's what Alexis Niki says about the Workshop:
"When I decided to produce my own web series, I brought the project into Philippa’s mentorship workshop. Thanks to Philippa, I'm in the wonderful position of having producers and distributors seeking me for possible collaborations --and the series has yet to launch! While so many talk about 'thinking outside the box,' Philippa actually does it. She sees connections and possibilities where others raise their hands in despair, and she’s not afraid to reach across branches of the industry to create fruitful and mutually-satisfying opportunities. I’m inspired by her generosity, her intelligence, her energy, and how she never shies away from a learning curve. If you have the opportunity to include Philippa on your team, grab it!"

Another thing to look out for is that we're expanding our Media Brand & Marketing Workshop industry guest interview calls and we've got some great ones coming up I've also got a Screenwriting Career Q&A in the mix in advance of my upcoming Fall Workshop.
Wednesday Calls are at 5:30PM PT
Saturday Calls are at 10AM PT.

Wednesday, August 11 - Steve Kaplan - Comedy Teacher Extraordinaire
Saturday, August 14, Q&A on Screenwriting Career
Wednesday, August 18 - Colleen Nystedt - Movieset.com
Wednesday, August 25 - Ed It (aka Ralph Scott) - Credit the Edit
Wednesday, September 1 - Jay Maharjan - 4Entrepreneur.net
Saturday, September 4 - Alexis Niki - Writer/Producer "My Bitchy Witchy Paris Vacation"
Wednesday, September 15 - Rick Polizzi, Producer on The Simpsons

You can stay posted on this and more about the Workshop and our Industy Guest Interviews
Follow us on Twitter @yourmediabrand and on Facebook at Philippa Burgess' Your Media Brand Mentor
We meet every Monday night at 5:30PM PT and on Thursdays at 4PM PT.

Learn more at www.yourmediabrandmentor.com So as you can see there's got quite a bit going on this Fall & Winter. I want to share it will you now so that you can get it into your calender.

Our friend Pilar Allesandra (check out her great podcasts at www.onthepage.tv) is having her book signing for The Coffee Break Screenwriter at the Writer Store's new location in Burbank

Thursday - September 2nd Wednesday, September 8 - Live Event Screenwriting Career Q&A and Mixer in Los Angeles at The ShowBiz Store & Cafe at 7:30PM 500 S. Sepulveda Blvd. in Brentwood near Getty Musuem

If you're in LA come out and join us. Mixer starts around 8PM. Tuesday, September 21 - October 20 Tuesdays & Wednesdays from 5:30 - 8:30PM PT of Lecture plus Q&A Screenwriting Career Intensive 8 Teleseminar Sessions, PDFs, MP3s, and More Super Summer Special only $97 for this entire course before August 15th at www.screenwritingcareer.com

This class sums up what I've learned about screenwriting career success from over 10 year (actually 20!) in the business and is a course that Chris Soth recommends to all of his mentees! Follow @scriptcareer Facebook Philippa Burgess Screenwriting Career Intensive

Tuesday - Friday, October 5 - 8 CTIA Wireless in San Francisco We'll be joining our friends from Producers Guild of America, New Media Counsel for Mobile

Friday, October 8 - 10 Screenwriting Expo in Los Angeles www.screenwritingexpo.com Last year several I brought several of the participants from my Screenwriting Career Intensive attending Expo to an after party at Shane Black's house! I also go to this event to support our friends from ScriptPipeline, ScriptShark, Script Magazine, Final Draft, Writers Store, Great American Pitchfest, Pilar Allesandra, ScriptCoach, Steve Kaplan, Julie Gray & Danny Manus among others... If you love comedy - don't miss Steve Kaplan's Comedy Intensives this Fall

Saturday & Sunday, October 15 - 16 Steve Kaplan's Comedy Intensive Just for Actors
He's in Chicago with his regular Intensive Saturday - Sunday, November 6 - 7
He's in Los Angeles with his regular Intensive Saturday - Sunday, December 4 - 5

I took this course last December and highly recommend it. He's brilliant, funny and right on the mark about what makes us laugh! www.kaplancomedy.com
Follow @skcomedy Find on Facebook at Steve Kaplan's Comedy Intensive

Friday - Sunday, November 5 - 7 New Media Film Festival-SF Bay Area Sponsor & Partner Invite: bit.ly/bDyLe1 We're still putting this together and looking forward to it being a great event. We welcome your input as we're still in the planning stages.

Friday, November 12 - Digital Publishing Producing by San Francisco Writers University in association with San Francisco Writing for Change Conference I will be speaking at this event on eBooks, eReaders, iApps and IPads

Saturday - Sunday, November 13 - 14 San Francisco Writing for Change Conference www.sfwritingforchange.orgThis is a terrific event for non-fiction writers, authors, experts and content creators who want to make a difference.

We'll also be at:

NATPE in Miami
Monday - Wednesday, January 24 - 26, 2011
www.natpe.org
This last year we were on the team that produced NATPE Navigator and it was a great success! Look forward to doing more with them in 2011.

San Francisco Writers Conference
Friday - Sunday, February 18 - 20, 2011
www.sfwriter.org
This is one of my favorite writers conferences and is very focused on both the art and business of writing. It's a great way to connect with agents, publishers, authors and book marketing professionals. -
- That's the news for now. We hope that we'll have the opportunity to catch up with you at a few or more of these events.
And as always, love to hear from you!

To your success,

Philippa

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