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Think like a showrunner: idea, development, pitching - first stages of project realization

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• 11.11.2015

November 26-27 FILM.UA Faculty will hold a two-day course within Skill Bill Pro "Think like a showrunner: idea, development, pitching - first stages of project realization". The course involves project participation (for selected applicants) and participation as a listener (for everyone).

The course will teach you to see the strong and weak points of your ideas and show concepts (TV programs and series), how to represent them to channel and studio producers, to choose and formulate the most important aspects for a written application and personal meeting. You will learn about the most common mistakes and weaknesses of the projects that face modern producers of television content. And most importantly - what are the criteria for the implementation of selected projects. Coaches will tell you what aspects, except for the basic idea of ​​the show or series, should be taken into account by the producer or the author of the project, what budgets to expect in today conditions of the television business, how to determine the audience of your show and accurately "hook" its interests, how to analyze the market, understand it and offer what it needs in order not to write "for the drawer".

The course will be held in the form of practical work with the authors of pre-selected applications. Accordingly - the audience will consist of listeners (without projects) and participants (with projects).

Couches of the course:

Iryna Kostiuk 

Iryna Kostyuk, producer at FILM.UA Group

Work experience in media: over 14 years.

In 2001 Iryna got her BA degree diploma of an international standard (Vienna International University) on "Business Administration". From 2000 to 2006 she was employed by "Inter" TV channel (the major national TV channel) at the foreign content acquisitions department (for "Inter" TV channel as well as for the entire group of the "Inter" TV channels). In 2006 together with her partners she founded and headed the first Ukrainian media consulting company "Media Resources Management" that now has partners and clients all over the world, as well as with the key players of the Ukrainian and international markets. Iryna is an author of many articles and reviews of the Ukrainian market of television as well as the foreign markets.

On November 2010 Iryna took up a post of General Producer of ТЕТ TV Channel.

In 2014 she launched a unique project UA formats, which is basically a complete catalogue of almost all Ukrainian formats ever made on local TV with a one common feature – a great success story of broadcast: either in terms of ratings, number of seasons on air or number of local adaptations in CIS countries or all of those factors combined.

 Anna Eliseeva

Anna Eliseeva, creative producer at FILM.UA Group

In March 2015, Anna joined FILM.UA Group's team, and now is engaged in the development of format and script projects, their editorial and directorial accompaniment, casting, post-production and other functions of the creative part of scripted and non-scripted formats, including targeting youth audience.

Before that, from 2011 to 2014, together with Irina Kostyuk, Anna worked as creative producer on TET TV channel rebranding. Under her leadership were carried out a series of bright promotional campaigns and significant launches on the channel. 

From 2006 to 2011 – promotional director at Inter. In 2010 Inter launched "Nashy" programme, where Anna was the author of the idea, producer and host. 

From 2004 to 2007 – promotional director at K1 channel