E36 - MediaU & A Business Roadmap for Indie TV

An Introduction to MediaU & A Business Roadmap for Indie TV!

 

MediaU opens the doors of access and upskills professionals like you for content creation, filmmaking, and television, with an emphasis on practical outcomes and careers. It’s accelerated online training to get you ready for your next level. MediaU has several new programs rolling out before the end of the year, and members of the Catalyst Community will get a special MediaU discount code.

 

Adam Leipzig, like everyone on the MediaU team, has a dual career commitment to both media-making and education. He has been a senior executive at Walt Disney Studios and the President of National Geographic Films, as well as the lead author of Filmmaking in Action: Your Guide to the Skills and Craft, the standard university textbook on filmmaking, and Inside Track for Independent Filmmakers, both published by Macmillan. Adam has been a producer, distributor, or supervising executive on 35 films that have disrupted expectations, including A Plastic Ocean, March of the Penguins, God Grew Tired of Us, Amreeka, Kekexili: Mountain Patrol, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Dead Poets Society, The Way Back, and Titus. His movies have won or been nominated for 10 Academy Awards, 11 BAFTA Awards, 2 Golden Globes, 2 Emmys, 2 Directors Guild Awards, 4 Sundance Awards, and 4 Independent Spirit Awards. In addition to guiding MediaU, Adam is professional faculty at UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business. He looks forward to working with you!

 

Adam Fratto is an award-winning executive producer with an international track record in TV development, programming, and production, as well as feature films and new media. He recently ran the scripted department for History, overseeing shows like PROJECT BLUE BOOK and VIKINGS, and has produced shows including CLEVERMAN, HAVEN and GREEK.

 

What materials do you need to shop your story around? What is a partnership agreement? Learn this and more when you tune in!

 

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