Demystifying the Film & TV Industries

Expect practical advice on the following (with emphasis placed on the things most important to your needs / career level:

- Creative Development: How to ensure your project is ready to expose wider for financing, cast, crew, etc.
- Budgeting & Scheduling: A rundown of the facts of the process and how to prepare yourself for success and avoiding going into overages.
- Financing: I will walk you through your options. Don't worry. It's not as complicated as you might think.
- Team-Building: How to ensure your crew is filled with true believers and people who want to be in the foxhole with you, not view it as a favor.
- Director Advocacy: How to give your director everything you can to set them up to succeed.
- Project Management: Controlling the process is perhaps the most important part and deceptively simple if you're prepared.
- Quality Control: Sometimes you need to step in to protect your film. And you need to be prepared for that.
- Exposing to Sales Agents: How to get in touch, who is out there, what sort of agents should you target, etc.
- Post Production / Supervising: A rundown of the whole process.
- Delivery: How it works, how to budget for it, and how to be prepared for all the "fun" surprises that come with it...

ALSO - if you want to talk about things such as: selling scripts at the studio level, developing TV and finding producing partners, finding a major agent as a director/actor, etc, etc, I am happy to discuss those things as well.

Noah Lang (Producer) is a two time Independent Spirit Award nominated producer of films and branded content based in NY and LA. After starting his career in sales, finance and consulting at Cinetic Media where he also consulted on acquisitions to FilmBuff for titles such as OCCUPATION FIGHTER, THE NAKED BRAND, and BEAUTY DAY. He later segued into producing with early projects including US in Progress winner SUN BELT EXPRESS, HEAVEN ADORES about beloved singer songwriter Elliott Smith, and BAND OF ROBBERS from the Brothers Nee.

Later film projects include Tribeca Audience Award Winner HERE ALONE, THE STRANGE ONES which received the SXSW Jury Prize for Acting, Beyond Fest premiere VFW distributed by RLJE, Independent Spirit Award Nominee THIS IS NOT A WAR STORY, Fantasia and Sitges selection MINOR PREMISE, Tribeca Viewpoints premiere RED, WHITE & WASTED, and Cannes Coup de Coeur Award Winner THE CLIMB.

Most recently he produced the award-winning sci-fi drama CREEP BOX based on the acclaimed ALTER Exclusive short film which Quiver distributed, AVENUE OF THE GIANTS from three time Sundance alum Finn Taylor, SLEEPING DOGS starring Russell Crowe, and BLOOD FOR DUST starring Kit Harington, Scoot McNairy and Josh Lucas which world premiered at Tribeca followed by a European premiere at Deauville. The film has been acclaimed by publications such as Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Film Threat, Screen Anarchy and more and is Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes.

He is a partner at Witchcraft Motion Picture Company with longtime collaborator Rod Blackhurst. The company has projects in development with Boat Rocker Studios, CBS Studios, Cloud Nine, eOne, Atomic Monster, Amblin, XTR, Peacock, and more.

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