Carole Dean, executor of the Roy W. Dean Grant Foundation, one of the largest, most prestigious grants in the US, is teaching her new book “The Art of Funding Your Film: Alternative Financing Concepts”

Saturday, May 15th, and Sunday May 16th, 2004
9:30 AM - 4:30 PM
Raleigh Studios
5300 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, CA

This is the two-day workshop you won’t want to miss. Some of the topics that Carole covers in this information-packed film financing conference include:

• Creating the Perfect Pitch
• What grantors want in applications
• Where and how to find donors
• Writing & packaging your proposal
• Raising funds from local Corps
• Successfully making the “Ask”
• How and where to Brand your film
• Money from Product Placement
• PBS/ITVS Money Maze Tips
• You will get a VHS of your pitch to take home with you. We will record your pitch with Carole Dean.

Plus, you’ll learn how to apply for the 7 Roy W. Dean grants valued at over $370,000 per year; how to reduce production costs on your film; which are the most competitively priced companies in the industry; how to create a proposal to raise funds; and how to package and present your proposal to funding organizations.

"My Office", a Roy W. Dean Grant sponsor, has generously given some free product to the people who attend the workshop. You will receive a free encoding of 5 minutes of trailer time. All that you will need is a DVD or Mini Dv or VHs with the content and My Office will encode the content and forward it to you to place on your respective website. To see the great work they do, please visit their website at www.myoffices.com To see participants feedback from a workshop click here

Carole Dean will teach you what judges want to know in your applications. And you will have time to “pitch” your project, so she can sharpen your presentation for you!

You will leave the Workshop with...

• A copy of Carole’s new book “The Art of Funding Your Film”
• Over 100 granting organizations web sites
• A VHS tape of your pitch to take home with you. We will record your pitch with Carole Dean
• Databases that will give you over 400,000 names of private
• Sector fellowships, grants and loans
• Hot internet search tools
• An understanding that funding is available
• Ideas for alternative ways to fund your films

Proceeds from the workshop go to the Roy W. Dean Grant Foundation, for the grants awarded to filmmakers just like you! To maximize the workshop experience of each participant, we have extremely limited enrollment (approx. only 30 seats available).

The list of guest speakers so far include:

Barbara Trent, "The Panama Deception," Director/Producer, 1992 AWARDS: Oscar® for Best Documentary Feature, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and "COVERUP: Behind the Iran-Contra Affair," Director/Producer, 1988 AWARDS: Gold Hugo, Chicago; Prix Du Public, Film des Femmes, France; Blue Ribbon/Best Documentary Sciences.

Jay May of Feature This! One of the largest product placement organizations will join us to give an insight on how to acquire product placement and branding for your doc or independent film.

Workshop Agenda highlights so far include...

• How to find funders or investors
• Proven fund raising house parties
• Where to find donors and how to woo them
• View previous video clips from successfully funded films.
• Learn where to find 10,000 grants and loans for films
• Sharpen your pitch and proposal to attract funding
• Find who is funding your type of film

Carole has decided to teach the first part of her new book, “Winners: People who love what they do” to the people in the next NYC and LA seminars

You will also get the $30 book “The Art of Funding Your Film: Alternative Financing Concepts” and work from this book too. Those who attend will be the first “Winners Groups” who will use the “6 steps to Power and Riches” created for them to fund and finish their films. Carole will continue to work with these Pathfinders after the seminar through free monthly conference calls as a form of support and guidance.

What others are saying:

“My expectations were exceeded 100 fold! … Carole is a master at making people believe they can do anything if they just try”
- Nancy L. Smith

“The seminar was definitely more than I expected...I liked the atmosphere, it was very close and personal.”
- Kevin McGill

“I can honestly say it’s the first time I’ve made an investment in my film-making career that hasn’t been mostly a waste of my time; (other than my screenwriting at UCLA).”
-EF Sepp

"Terrific workshop- very thorough, packed with info, great speakers"
-Muriel Grabe

"This was an inspiring and informative weekend. It was a positive energy from speakers and participants."
-Grai St.Clair Rice

"‘The Art of Funding Your Film’ workshop was extremely useful and inspiring. As a fist time producer/director who has done extensive research on my own on funding for the past few years I felt that a lot of questions I had about the process were answered."The people that presented during the workshop are invaluable resources to the filmmaking community, I feel priveledged to have gained access to them, to learn that people are out there to help!"
-Kate Cunningham

About the Experts

Carole Lee Dean - teaching from her new book, “The Art of Funding Your Film: Alternative Financing Concepts”. Carole is a producer of over 100 HealthStyles Cable shows; she pioneered the indie film market and created the “short end” industry in Hollywood and now donates her time to raising goods and services for the 7 Roy W. Dean film grants and teaching filmmakers how to find funding for films or all genres.

Barbara Trent- Barbara will give us an afternoon on: Taking it to the Theaters A workshop on self-distribution of issue-oriented film and video based on the model created by the Empowerment Project for the distribution of COVERUP: Behind the Iran Contra Affair and Academy Award winning The Panama Deception.

The Art of Funding Your Film in Hollywood May 15 and 16

This weekend will revolutionize the way you think and approach funding your film and writing projects.

Proceeds from the workshop go to the Roy W. Dean Grant Foundation, 501c3 non-profit organization, for the grants awarded to filmmakers just like you!

To maximize the workshop experience of each participant, we have extremely limited enrollment (only 30 seats available).

EARLY BIRD Rate (until 12 noon, May 10th , 2004)----$185 (Pre-Registration after May 10th will be $215) *for people who have the book already, the early bird price without the book will be only $155.00... (please contact Lori Pye)

Film Financing Conference/Workshop Full Rate---------------$230 (at the door, if seats are available)

Alumni(previous 2 day workshop attendee)Pre-Registration Rate (until 12 noon, May 10th, 2004)------------------------------------$110 (Alumni please contact Lori Pye to register)

Any questions, please contact Lori Pye