The Business of Filmmaking: TV, Short Films, and Low Budget Features

Location: Utah Film Center

$100, Artist Foundry Members receive a discount

This season’s Business of Filmmaking Workshop series will be a comprehensive deep dive into the business aspects of making your short film, feature film, documentary, or TV pilot/series, providing you with resources to create an effective infrastructure in order for your project to succeed.

With industry expert instructors, including local PGA Producer, Marcie Gibboney, and independent producers, Nicole Docta and Jenny Mackenzie, this educational series consists of presentations, discussion, and workshopping your project.

This workshop will focus on TV pilot/series, short films, and low budget features (under $1 million). We will work through how to set up your business entity, build your finance plan, create a budget, and standard crew rates. There will also be time for direct support on individual projects, whether that’s taking the first steps to setting up your LLC or creating a first draft of your budget.

Next up: The Business of Filmmaking: Funding Your Documentary on Saturday, December 14th. Learn more and register here.

The cost of this workshop is $100.
Artist Foundry members receive a 25% discount – see member portal for code.
Due to generous grant funding from the American Rescue Plan Act (brought to us by the Salt Lake Mayor’s Office of Economic Development), we were able to provide scholarships through August 31st, 2024 for Salt Lake City residents with additional workshop discounts during their 1-year free membership. If you participated in this scholarship program, reach out to amadden@utahfilmcenter.org for a 75% discount.

Marcie Gibboney

With over 30 years of business experience including development and delivery of corporate training programs, Marcie has been able to successfully combine this experience with her current career in film and TV production over the last 15 years. She has worked as a Producer, Production Manager/Supervisor, Production Accountant and AD with both large studios and independent production companies. Working with the Utah Film Commission to create the Production Assistant Training program, additional workshops have been developed to create a detailed curriculum.

Marcie is a moderator and co-instructor for the PA training classes and the co-creator, with the Utah Film Commission, of the training program. Marcie has also created classes in accounting, budgeting and the structures for the grip & electric training as well the Focus is Female Workshops.

She is a member of the Producers Guild of America (PGA).

The Artist Foundry is a program of Utah Film Center, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.

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