Short Film Sales & Distribution
Ffilm Cymru Wales & BFI NETWORK Wales, in partnership with Doc Society & BFI NETWORK South West, invite you to join us for this online session looking at all aspects of the sales and distribution of short films.
If you’ve made a short film or are in the process of doing so, this is an opportunity to find out how to give your short film the best chance of being sold and distributed and how to plan ahead in the early stages of development.
We are very pleased to be joined by our speakers Lorenza Tuan of Shorts TV, Ben Vandendaele of Radiator IP Sales and Alessandro Loprieno of WeShort, who will give us an insight into their working methods and look at what a sales agent / distributor can do for a film. This will include case studies of successful shorts demonstrating the bridge that can be created to go from a short to a feature and everything in between.
Lorenza Tuan
With a background in Anthropology and Film Production, Lorenza Tuan has 9 years’ experience in the audio-visual industry, where she has produced, acquired, programmed and curated films, commercials, live shows and editorial content for international TV channels and digital platforms. Based in London, she currently works as an Acquisition Executive for Shorts TV, acquiring shorts of all genres and categories, including Oscar Shorts.
Shorts International is the first 24/7 HD TV channel dedicated to short films with the longest track record in the industry and with the largest global catalogue of high quality and popular short content.
STV has a global distribution in over 130 million+ households with 2 premium TV channel brands (ShortsTV and TV Cortos), 2 FAST channel brands (Shorts and Cortos) and SVOD on Amazon Prime Channels covering 92 countries.
For 18 consecutive years STV has been distributing the annual theatrical release of the Oscar Nominated Short Films, bringing the very best to the big screen and nurture our long standing relationships with key international film awards institutions (Oscars, BAFTAs), film festivals (Sundance, Cannes) and film schools (AFI, USC, NFTS).
Ben Vandendaele
Ben Vandendaele is a versatile producer, sales agent and distributor. He is based in Brussels where he studied film editing at the Rits School Of Arts. He is the founder of production company Bekke Films (supporting provocative cinema and authors with a purpose) and Radiator IP Sales through which he represents, distributes and sells over 100 short films and several feature films to date. The films have been selected for multiple international film festivals, including Berlinale, Clermont-Ferrand, Sundance, SXSW, Locarno, Venice, Sarajevo and many others.
Ben has taken part in several international workshops, including Berlinale Talents, Zurich Masterclass and a member of the pre-selection committee for LIM. He’s partnered up with the European Short Pitch, Torino Short Film Market, Dokufest, Animarkt and iF Istanbul. He recently became member of the European Film Academy.
Alessandro Loprieno
Alessandro Loprieno, a 32-year-old entrepreneur from Puglia. After studying at the University of Bari - Languages, Literature and Arts, he continued his education at the Bocconi School of Management and recently completed the Y Combinator Startup School. He spent nine years in aviation working as a flight attendant at Ryanair. Today, as CEO of WeShort he works full time on the mission of making short films an everyday choice for the general public, worldwide.
Alex also founded Lopriadvisor in 2021, a consulting firm in technology innovation and audiovisual, holding stakes in major companies in the entertainment and events industry such as Events.com Slated.com and Media Capital Technologies Group.
The session will run for 90 minutes with a break in the middle and there will be an opportunity to ask questions. If you have any questions or access requirements, please contact Tracy Spottiswoode on tracy@ffilmcymruwales.com or call 07902 492109 to discuss in confidence.