The Atlantic Film Festival’s Strategic Partners is one of the world’s pre-eminent co-production/co-financing markets focusing on feature film, TV and multiplatform fiction. It takes place in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada from 12 to 15 September.
Strategic Partners hosts 200 international delegates and is a one-stop shop for producers, broadcasters, sales agents, financiers, distributors and film agencies. This year’s event, now celebrating its 16th year, is placing the market spotlight on India and the UK and includes nearly 1,000 pre-scheduled 1-2-1 meetings, relevant panels, visionary keynote speakers as well as the popular Film and Creative Industries Nova Scotia Lobster dinner.
Featured presentations at the 2013 Strategic Partners include TV Series Collaborations ¨C International Perspectives in Concert! Moderator Fred Fuchs (Camelot, The Tudors, Being Erica, Transporter) and his panel of international broadcasters will explore the mechanics of how independent TV series are being created.
Story Extensions for Feature Film – A Digital Strategy Session will be presented by Canada’s top digital story accelerator, James Milward (founder and executive producer of Secret Location. Milward has chosen a Strategic Partner’s project and will facilitate an on-stage digital strategy session with the producer, offering an expert overview of what producers should be considering to take the first step in the search for new audiences and revenue streams for their feature film.
Telefilm Canada is the presenting partner of Strategic Partners. For more information, visit: http://www.atlanticfilm.com/industry/strategic-partners
Meanwhile, the 33rd Atlantic Film Festival (12 to 19 September) will screen will feature over 180 films and a full slate of special events, to be presented over eight days in Halifax.
The festival’s Closing Gala presentation on Thursday 19 September will be The Invisible Woman. Directed by and starring Ralph Fiennes (Schindler’s List, The English Patient), The Invisible Woman tells the story of a secret love affair between Charles Dickens and Nelly Ternan. Dickens (Fiennes) ¨C famous, controlling and emotionally isolated within his success ¨C falls for Nelly (Felicity Jones), who comes from a family of actors. The theatre is a vital arena for Dickens – a brilliant amateur actor – a man more emotionally coherent on the page or on stage, than in life. As Nelly becomes the focus of Dickens’ passion and his muse, for both of them secrecy is the price, and for Nelly a life of invisibility¡. The Invisible Woman is distributed in Canada by Mongrel Media.
