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Indie Producing and Distribution 101 Workshop

This event took place on Friday, Feb. 9, 2024 at 12:30 pmOld Fire Hall

Indie Producing and Distribution 101 Workshop with veteran producer and distributor, Avi Federgreeen (IndieCan Ent.)

In this intense and interactive 5-hour workshop, Avi Federgreen, Producer and Distributor of low-budget Canadian films, walks you through what you need and what it takes, to produce low-budget, independent films in Canada today. This will provide participants with real tangible experience from the trenches, not limited to what is taught in film school. This long-awaited interactive workshop is for independent Canadian producers, writers, and directors making movies today, or for those wanting to make contemporary, independent Canadian films. Whether you want to make movies in Halifax, Newfoundland, Toronto, Winnipeg, Edmonton, Calgary, or Vancouver, this workshop provides:

1. Tools and information to produce your movie.

2. Experience and practical advice from an industry veteran with nearly 20 years’ experience both in Canadian moviemaking as well as in promoting Canadian films and filmmakers.

3. A reality check and tips from the trenches on what is achievable as an independent filmmaker in Canada.

Avi Federgreen’s over twenty-five years of experience in the Canadian film industry includes over seventy films produced. 

Avi Federgreen is the creator of the Indiecan10K & Indiecan20K First Feature Initiatives that have now helped 8 first features get made in Canada.

Federgreen's producing credits include Home Free, One Week, Still Mine, Motherly, For The Sake of Vicious, Clapboard Jungle, Things I Do For Money, Kiss and Cry, Prisoner X, Score: A Hockey Musical, Relative Happiness, How To Plan An Orgy in A Small Town, Moon Point, I’m Yours, Hungry Hills, High Life, Leslie, My Name Is Evil, Lifechanger, Man Running, and Altered Skin to name a few.

In the Summer of 2019 Federgreen directed his first Short film Red Balloon.  In the Fall of 2020 Federgreen directed his first feature film Family Seductions (AKA Lethal Love) for Neshama Entertainment / Marvista Entertainment which was sold to Netflix US as since directed two episodes of the acclaimed hit series Holly Hobbie and directing a feature titled Summer At Charlotte’s for Trilight Entertainment.  Recently, Federgreen produced and directed his DREAM Feature film Home Free which will be completed Fall of 2023.

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