THE FORGE STUDIOS & COMMAND PERFORMANCE PRODUCTIONS
Proudly Presents
MAKING YOUR PROJECTS HAPPEN!
Successful Film/TV Producing & Financing
The Highly Acclaimed and Anticipated Workshop by Former ICM Agent, Award-Winning Filmmaker & Bestselling Author
JIM JERMANOK
A Professional Workshop for Producers, Directors, Actors, Writers, Investors, Crew, and Entrepreneurs on How to Produce and Finance Successfully in the current economic climate.
MAKING YOUR PROJECTS HAPPEN!
Successful Film/TV Producing and Financing
An acclaimed, intense, and empowering professional 4-hour workshop geared toward producers, investors, filmmakers, directors, key crew, screenwriters, editors, journalists, actors, and other aspiring, working, and successful creative professionals who want to seriously produce films, TV and web series.
This is an insider's no-bull, no-fluff, presentation of the current film, TV and New Media business. Money-back guarantee if this workshop does not meet your expectations.
In this challenging day and age, it is a well-known fact that to work professionally as an actor, writer, director, and producer in any aspect of film, TV, and media, you need to create your own opportunities and make your own projects. This workshop is for those in the business and those who want to enter the business. It is based on 35 years of experience and analysis of the qualities, traits, strategies, and tactics that successful Film/TV creators/producers share.
MAKING YOUR PROJECTS HAPPEN!: Successful Film/TV Producing and Financing is extremely empowering, career-transforming (if not life-transforming) bottom-line and nuts-and-bolts. No fluff. You will be taking 20-30 pages of notes! By the author of the recent bestseller: BEYOND THE CRAFT: What You Need to Know to Make A Living Creatively published in 2017; 2nd Edition in 2023.
This is also a tremendous opportunity for local networking and bolstering the DMV creative community.
"Few people are in a better position than Jim Jermanok, who has done it all, to guide the novice and even the experienced practitioner. Highly recommended."
-STEPHEN FRY, Actor, Writer, Director
"Everyone should listen to Jim Jermanok! I certainly do."
- MARTIN LANDAU, Oscar-winning Actor (1927-2017)
"Jim Jermanok’s advice in “Making Your Projects Happen” are the CliffsNotes for people hoping to make it in the business of creative pursuit; a MapQuest tour through the baffling and congested world of entertainment and media."
-STEVE KROFT, CBS News Correspondent for “60 Minutes,” 5-time Peabody Award Winner
"Jim’s advice is so spot on; it’s like having a father in Show Business."
-EDDIE FELDMANN, Executive Producer, Writer and 5-time Emmy Award winner (“HBO’s Dennis Miller Live”)
Jim Jermanok’s workshop was one of the best-received workshops I’ve ever produced here at the Writers Guild of America. The feedback has been ebullient. The 75 WGA members who attended thanked me profusely and reported being energized and inspired.
– DANA WEISSMAN-SCALI, Director of Programs, WGA
"I took my own, hard route to my career and I wish I'd had taken Jim’s workshop at the start. It would have been so helpful! It should be compulsory for all creative professionals and students worldwide."
- ALUNA FRANCIS, star of global recording group AlunaGeorge
"Film directors (any creative people really) must constantly re-invent ourselves, fight the blues, the self-doubt . . .We are increasingly forced to function as our own self-promoters, motivators, and salespersons. It's not an easy thing to do, to play both the Creative and the Business roles! Jim not only provides insight into these challenges but also gives us some real tools to get past them and make your career dreams come true."
- RANDA HAINES, Director of Oscar-nominated film, “Children of a Lesser God”
It was great seeing Jim in action, sharing important facts with a riveted audience. He told it like it is–straightforward–and gave very practical information that will help these producers today and in the future. Keep mentoring. Your no-nonsense approach is the way to go! Well done!
– STEVE FEINBERG, Rhode Island Film Commissioner
JIM WILL COVER THE FOLLOWING:
Selecting and researching the right script
Literary gold mining
Producing fictional TV series
Everything you've ever wanted to know about reality/non-fiction TV series
Distinguishing yourself and your projects
Creating superb promotional materials
Pitching yourself and your projects
Where the financing come from
How to find, approach, research and convince investors
How to produce or invest in television and new media
How to package yourself as a creative
What you need to know about domestic and international tax incentives and other soft money
Film Producing advantages of holding a foreign passport
Current status of the independent film industry
What genres/budget ranges are working now
Art of the schmooze
Assembling a team whose sum is greater than its parts
Overcoming creative career self-sabotage
Understanding and succeeding with agents and managers
Distributors and sales agents--what you need to know
Branding your film
Do It Yourself Distribution
Social Media Marketing for producers
Making it happen on your own
Here is a recent Jim Jermanok Producing article from IndieWire, America's top independent film website:
www.indiewire.com/article/6-techniques-to-research-and-locate-film-investors
WORKSHOP VIDEOS
About Jim Jermanok:
Jim Jermanok is an award-winning writer, director, producer, author, and speaker based in NY and DC. He has spoken and conducted workshops in over 30 countries. He is currently directing and producing a feature documentary about the life and art of Oscar-winning actor Martin Landau featuring interviews by Chris Rock, Diane Ladd, Jon Voight, Woody Allen, and Ellen Burstyn. Jim is currently Executive Producer of the new dramatic TV series “Incompleteness.” He wrote and produced the highly acclaimed romantic comedy, “Passionada,” which was released by Columbia Tri Star in over 150 countries. Jim's film “Em” won the Grand Jury Prize at the Seattle International Film Festival and the Criterion International Inspiration Award, among others. He has written four books including the bestsellers, “BEYOND THE CRAFT: What YouNeed To Know About Making A Living Creatively,” and “THE WAY UP: Climbing TheCorporate Mountain As a Professional of Color”(Wiley). Jim Jermanok is a former ICM Agent who represented Arthur Miller, Shirley MacLaine, Ben Kingsley, Dudley Moore, Helen Hayes, Alan Arkin, and General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, among others. For more information, go to www.jimjermanok.com
APPEARANCES WORLDWIDE: Jim Jermanok has made numerous appearances as a speaker, teacher, workshop instructor, panelist, and moderator of panels.
Jermanok has spoken at Cannes, Harvard University, Yale University, New York University, The Writers Guild of America (WGA), The New School, The School of Visual Arts, Boston University, University of Pennsylvania, New York Film Academy, Screen Directors Guild of Ireland, Raindance (London), and the Scriptwriters Guild of Israel.
In addition, Mr. Jermanok has spoken at: The WGA (Writers Guild of America), Arizona Studios (Phoenix, AZ), ATRIA (Paris, France) Brooklyn Intl. Film Festival, Clark University (Worcester, MA), Digital Hollywood NY Media Summit, Dublin Institute of Technology, The Edinburgh International Film Festival, Filmbase (Dublin, Ireland), Five Towns College (Dix Hills, NY), The Florida Intl. Film Festival (Orlando), Garde Arts Center (New London, CT), George Washington University (Washington, DC), Herzliya Cinematheque for the Scriptwriters Guild of Israel (Tel Aviv, Israel), The Independent Feature Film Festival (New York), Intersection for the Arts (San Francisco, CA), Irish Theater Institute (Dublin), Long Island Intl. Film Expo (Bellmore, NY), Long Island University (Brookville, NY), Making Media Now Documentary Conference (Waltham, MA), The New London Film Festival, The Newport Film Festival, The NY-Bulgarian Film Festival, The New York Intl. Film Festival, The NY Screenwriters, Ninth St. Independent Film Center (San Francisco, CA), North Carolina Film Workshop (Greensboro, NC), Northern Arizona University (Flagstaff, AZ) The Queens International Film Festival, The Palm Springs Intl. Film Festival, Raindance (London, England) Rawi Screenwriters Lab (Amman, Jordan), Ruff Cutz Film Festival (Boston), San Diego City College, The Santa Fe Intl. Film Festival, The Screening Room (Tucson, AZ) The Seattle International Film Festival, Show Biz Expo (New York, NY), Sithengi: Cape Town World Cinema Festival, The Sofia Independent Film Festival (Sofia, Bulgaria), Story Forward (New York, NY), The White Sands Film Festival (New Mexico) and WilliFest (Williamsburg, Brooklyn), among many others.