Session details

Name
Footprint Films, Mark Blaney - Co-Production Forum
Date
Friday, May 5, 2023
Time
10:45 AM - 11:00 AM (AEST)
Location Name
Event Centre Marquee
Table Number
21
Fully Booked
Description
Much of Footprint’s story telling is focussed on drama adaptations of true stories or on narratives that resonate in a similar way. Seeking to entertain, inspire and give audiences opportunity to consider people, cultures, beliefs and ways of life beyond their own experience, above all Footprint features, and drama series for TV/streaming, should ‘leave a stone in the shoe’ of audiences, giving them reason to be thinking, laughing, crying, wrestling way after they’ve left the cinema or switched off for the night. Footprint’s 2020 feature, ESCAPE FROM PRETORIA, is a great example of what we’re looking for: a true story framed as a prison break (to reach audience), but with a historical and political heart that stands to inspire and provoke the ‘average’ cinema goer through to the most fervent of politicos. Next stop, a feature comedy, with, we hope, reason to think and laugh out loud. NB: Each meeting is 15 minutes and can be used as an opportunity to pitch a project, or to introduce yourself/your slate or company.
Mark Blaney