PART I. INTRODUCTION

10:00-10:45

Cinema in Ukraine. Visible light at the end of the tunnel

Artem Vakalyuk, Head of Publishing Projects Content Report and Media Business Reports, Media Resources Management, Ukraine

Financial and tax incentives for the film industry in Europe

Alexey Aristov, Corporate Finance Director, TMT Group Leader at Deloitte & Touche USC, Ukraine
International Case Study. Redirected (Lithuania and United Kingdom co-production)       

Donatas Simukauskas, Producer, Lithuania

PART II. WORKSHOP.
FINANCIAL AND LEGAL WORKSHOP

 10:45-12:05

State support, national and international funds, possibilities for the Eastern Europe and Ukraine, necessary changes to the legislation, existing incentives for the filmmakers, co-production opportunities

Philip Illyenko (Head of Ukrainian State Film Agency, Ukraine),Sergey Sozanovsky (Co-founder of FILM.UA Group), Yevgeniya Derbal (Legal Counselor at FILM.UA Group), Sue Hayes (Screen Industries Advisor, United Kingdom ), Hrvoje Hribar (Chief Executive of the Croatian Audiovisual Centre), Donatas Simukauskas (Producer, Lithuania) 

Moderator: Artem Vakalyuk, Head of Publishing Projects Content Report and Media Business Reports, Media Resources Management

Q&A session

12:05-12:25

Coffee - break

FINANCIAL AND LEGAL WORKSHOP.  Continuation

12:25-13:35

Private investments and commercial films. Filmmaking as business, how to manage without state financing and make successful feature films, cases. Questions regarding the types of financial participation in film projects – investments, bank loan services, advertisement and product placement, etc.

Philip Illyenko (Head of Ukrainian State Film Agency, Ukraine), Sergey Sozanovsky (Co-founder of FILM.UA Group), Vladimir Zelensky (Producer, Art Director of Studio Kvartal 95), Donatas Simukauskas (Producer, Lithuania), Vitaliy Provotorov (Co-Managing Director, Investment Company Concorde Capital), Oksana Stekhina (Director of Business Development, Dentsu Aegis Network Ukraine, Ukraine)

Q&A Session

13:35-14:55

Legislative initiatives for film industry development and recent changes of  2015, legal forms of participation in TV and film content production for TV & Radio broadcasting companies, concept of indivisibility of rights, and how to divide the rights between co-producers, special aspects of production and distribution of content for theatrical distribution, definition of national product and European product. International co-production

Philip Illyenko (Head of Ukrainian State Film Agency, Ukraine), Sergey Sozanovsky (Co-founder of FILM.UA Group), Yevgeniya Derbal (Legal Counselor at FILM.UA Group), Donatas Simukauskas (Producer, Lithuania)

Moderator: Artem Vakalyuk, Head of Publishing Projects Content Report and Media Business Reports, Media Resources Management

Q&A Session

14:55-15:25

Break

PRODUCERS’ WORKSHOP

15:25-15:55   

KEYNOTE report and panel discussion.  

Partnership with CHINA: An Inexhaustible Goldmine or an Impregnable Great Wall

Alexey Aristov (Deloitte & ToucheUSC), Victoria Yarmoschuk (CEO of Media Resources Management),Dmitry (Xuan) Liu and Tony (Yingchun) Fang (Producers, China International Film & Media (Beijing), China)

15:55-16:55

Case study and discussion. Ukrainian hype films: The Guide, The Tribe and The Battle for Sevastopol – producers’ speech: expectations, experience and results

Moderator: Polina Tolmachova (PR and Marketing Director of FILM.UA Group)

Participants: Maksim Asadchiy (Producer, Pronto Film Production), Denis Ivanov (Director, Producer, Arthouse Traffic ), Yegor Olesov (Producer,Co-founder, POSTMODERN, Animagrad, DCU )

 16:55-17:15

Films promotion, types of promo-campaigns, international experience. Content marketing, creation the hype around the films, positioning, online and offline channels of promotion, virus campaigns, the instrument of effective campaign analysis

Participants: Valery Kozlitinov, Stepan Grebenko (Promo-producers, C-4, Shortы C-founders)

Q&A Session

17:15-17:30

Coffee-break 

WORKSHOP: COMMERCIAL ANIMATION AND CO-PRODUCTION

 17:30-18:30

International co-production. Licensing. Financing. Features of promotion and distribution

Yegor Olesov (Producer, Co-founder, POSTMODERN, Animagrad, DCU ), Katerina Nazarova (Wizart Animation, Russia), Dmitry Malkov (Kvartal 95 Studio – 95 Animation Studio), Igor Storchak (CEO, FILM.UA Distribution, Ukraine), Ruslan Podlesny (Director, GOOD POINTS, Ukraine)

Q&A Session

18:30-18:40

PART III. FINAL PART. SUMMARY