Featuring in 2020
New Online Programmes
Katie Holly
Managing Director, Blinder Films
Showrunner Exchange: TV Drama
13th – 18th September 2020
LOS ANGELES
REGISTRATION OPEN – Limited places available
With a 22 year history, the programme provides an unparalleled insight into the US Television Drama industry and its creative principles. The Showrunner Exchange in Los Angeles allows access to the best creators, writers and network executives in the industry.
Participants will discuss the creative process and observe episodes of these shows being written, produced and broadcast. The participant group of Drama writers, producers and executives drawn from across the world will also enjoy the additional benefit of sharing the breadth of experience represented within the group itself.
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Katie Holly
Managing Director, Blinder Films
UK TV DRAMA EXCHANGE
New Dates to Be Announced
LONDON
REGISTRATION OPEN – Limited places available.
Meet the British Industry – a 3-day schedule of meetings with leading drama practitioners involved in writing, developing and producing High End Series.
A unique opportunity to source UK partners for your projects.
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Michael Esser
Writer & Producer, Germany
Connect to Hollywood
Year round
LOS ANGELES
REGISTRATION OPEN
An intensive pressure cooker of meetings to maximize your creative and business visions to those in the US Market searching for fresh, international voices.
Now entering its third year, Connect to Hollywood is designed to identify top-calibre series with the potential to attract interest from the US market. Participants are inducted in US pitching practices and will have opportunities to meet one on one to pitch Agents, Networks, Showrunners, Executives, Producers and Sales Agents with the aim of securing US partners and exploring the creative and commercial potential of their concept.
Connect to Hollywood is offered exclusively for past participants in MediaXchange’s Los Angeles Exchanges and The European TV Drama Lab (The European TV Drama Lab is produced in association with the Erich Pommer Institut and the support of Creative Europe).
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Michael Esser
Writer & Producer, Germany
Independent Film Exchange,
New York and Los Angeles
2021 Dates to Be Announced
NEW YORK and LOS ANGELES
Connect with US international film professionals (producers, financiers, distributors, streamers) in a tailored schedule of meetings in New York and Los Angeles. Explore partnership and collaboration as well as creative and managerial best practices used to develop, finance and distribute independent films with a global reach.
Participants will also benefit from spending a week with fellow international indie producer peers also partaking in the programme.
“The meetings were a great success, and as a result, I’m confident that a co-producing project will come together in the near future.”
Emanuel Michael
Unison Film
A lot. Learn to take a hit, then pick yourself up off the floor. Resilience is the true key to success”
Melissa Rosenberg
Dexter, Twilight, Jessica Jones
Women Writers to Los Angeles
Please contact us for confirmed dates
LOS ANGELES
In January 2021 we will announce the dates for the return of this ‘in-person’, week-long Exchange to be held in Los Angeles
In the meantime, please be sure to check our Online Programmes which will be addressing the interests of women writers and creatives
Take Your Place In A TV Drama Exchange For Women Writers In Los Angeles
Following the success of the inaugural Women Writers Exchange in 2019, the schedule will return in 2021.
Building on the industry focus of ensuring a wider representation of women in creative roles, the schedule will provide participants with greater insight into the US creative process through meetings with key US players and practitioners. Contrasting the creative and collaborative skills applied by writers, writer/producers and writing Showrunners will allow for an examination of best writing, show management, development and production practices.
Meetings and sessions will also examine the range of perspectives through direct access to US, drama development executives who will share their creative and production experiences.
The comparison of process encourages an advanced level of professionalism and also offers opportunities for exchanges with international drama producers and exposure to potential development opportunities.
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Click here for a copy of the Application Form
Contact alison@mediaxchange.com for information about this Exchange
A lot. Learn to take a hit, then pick yourself up off the floor. Resilience is the true key to success”
Melissa Rosenberg
Dexter, Twilight, Jessica Jones