The Producers Panel, Presented by The Midwest Independent Film Festival!
Tuesday, November 4th, 6:30 p.m.
Landmark Century Centre Cinema, 2828
Your $10 festival ticket grants you complimentary admission for this panel!
Tonight’s Topic: “Funding Your Documentary”
Moderator: Grace McPhillips, Actress/Board Member, Illinois Production Alliance
Get to know our panelists for the evening…
Maggie Bowman, Producer, Election Day
Maggie Bowman produced Election Day. The film premiered at South by Southwest Film Festival in March 2007 and will screen at Tuesday's Midwest Independent Film Festival. Previously she associate-produced Two Tone Productions' Unfinished Country, a film about Haiti's 2006 presidential elections for the PBS foreign affairs series Wide Angle. At Big Mouth she has directed an advocacy video for the New York Hotel Trades Council and served in multiple production capacities on Arctic Son (POV 2007 season) and Deadline (Sundance 2004, NBC). Bowman has produced for the Brian Lehrer Show, a public affairs talk show on New York Public Radio; line-produced the documentary short Dimmer, about a group of blind teenagers in Buffalo, New York (Sundance 2005); and does freelance production work in film and television.
Clayton Brown, Director/Producer, The Atom Smashers
Clayton Brown is the co-director of The Atom Smashers, a documentary that will air nationally on the PBS show Independent Lens on November 25 and again January 27. It's a production of 137 Films, a Chicago science documentary production company, co-founded by Brown to tell the stories of scientists and their advances toward an understanding of the universe. After earning a MFA in film at Northwestern University, Clayton received several awards and saw his films screened across the country at the Los Angeles International Film Festival and elsewhere. His films tell the stories of musicians, artists, actors, and others caught in curious obsessions. Clayton also teaches narrative and documentary film production at Northwestern University's Department of Radio/TV/Film. (www.137films.org)
Mark Smith, Producer, Louis Sullivan: the Struggle for American Architecture
After a successful career in graphic design, Mark Richard Smith relocated from Dallas to Chicago to attend graduate school at Loyola University, earning a Masters degree in American history in 2007. He is currently directing his first film, "Louis Sullivan: the Struggle for American Architecture," which tells the story of one of the most important yet forgotten artists in American history, and the people who fought to save his work from being destroyed during the age of "urban renewal" in the mid-twentieth century. Principle photography for the film will wrap in November, 2008, with an anticipated release date of March, 2009. For more, visit www.louissullivanfilm.com or www.whitecapfilms.com!
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