Dr. Rebekah Louisa Smith, The Film Festival Doctor, is a change agent. Her focus on film festivals and mental health is the first of its kind within the film industry. She creates new ways to approach festival strategies and redefine how to look after one’s mental health within the intense & rewarding world of the…
Feb 19, 12:45 PM-2:00 PM: EDUCATION – Film Festivals and How to Look After Your Mental Health (Regal Union Square Theater 2)
Feb 20, 12:45 PM-2:00 PM: The Secret Bloody Truths – Get Your Indie Horror Film Made! (LOOK Cinemas Theater 4, 657 W 57th St, New York NY 10019)
Jim Thalman is the Managing Director of i*Deal Films, a film finance fund that provides first monies to curated high concept independent feature films. i*Deal’s current slate of films include “MISERIA” (“The Mummy” meets “Murder on the Orient Express”) and “Psychopathy” (“Dinner at Andre’s” with serial killers.) In addition, Jim is overseeing the development of…
A graduate of New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Ian Holt studied under the late great Stella Adler and Beatrice Straight. Ian is the co-author, with Dacre Stoker, of the international best seller, Dracula The Un-Dead, the official sequel to Bram Stoker’s classic 1897 novel, Dracula. Ian wrote the cult classic slasher, Dr….