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The FOCAL International Dublin Seminar

- The Business of archives -


Friday 15 Oct 08:30 – 17:30, Dublin Castle, Dublin, Ireland


Registration at Dublin Castle Conference Centre 08.30 – 09.30

The FOCAL International Seminar - The Business of archives  

Date and Time: Friday 15 Oct 08:30 – 17:30

Location – Dublin Castle

Fee: 220/250 euros for early bookings, 350 euros for late bookings

Theme: Business models. Marketing and Branding - covering production and financial issues impacting on archives.

08:30 – 09:30: Registration/coffee

09:30 : Introduction – Sue Malden, chair of FOCAL International

09:45 : Keynote speech – Lord Puttnam of Queensgate

10:15 – 11:30: Archive business models

  • How a business is set up – Matt White – Corporation for Public Broadcasting
  • How the business models must change - Kevin Schaff – Thought Equity, Jean-Luc Vernhet – Ina, Pandora Mather-Lees – Bridgeman Art Library
  • 11:30 – 1145 : Coffee

1145-13:00 New markets, new platforms and new opportunities for archives – Josh Rucchi -Getty Images, Paul Maidment – BBC Motion Gallery, Stephan Bleek – Framepool13:00 -14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 15:00 Production Use of Archives:

Debate with producers, broadcasters, distributors and archives

  • The Broadcasters Commissioning process
  • The business challenges
  • Budgets
  • Partnership /Coproduction ideas

15:00 – 15.30: Coffee

15:30 – 17.05: Rights, orphan works, collective licensing – Hubert Best Impact on the value of your back catalogue

17.00 – 17.30: FOCAL International Awards – categories and examples of entries – Julie Lewis and Anne Johnson

TO REGISTER : click here

With full FIAT Conference Registration €220 (Late fee after 3rd Sep €300)
Without full FIAT Conference Registration €250 (Late fee after 3rd Sep €300)
*Registration Fee includes entry to the FIAT/IFTA World Conference Opening Cocktail

For more information: FOCAL International: +44 (0)20 3178 3535 info@focalint.org