WHO WE ARE
The main function of FootageFest is to bring content buyers and sellers together, as well as celebrating the innovative repurposing of third-party content.
Our industry segregates us from each other for no rational reason, and then makes a huge deal when it creates events that bring us together. FootageFest doesn’t wait for its members to find us - we cast a huge net and successfully recruit the top content professionals in the industry to join us, to learn with us, and to celebrate with us.
Everyone in the industry that touches third-party content at all is invited into the circle: “Users” are not only made up of researchers and clearance folks, but writers, directors, producers and editors. Likewise, “Providers” are not just made up of stock footage professionals, but TV and film studio licensing reps, production companies, independent shooters, and news and viral video agencies.
In just five short years, FootageFest has become the fastest-growing content expo in the world.
Our main hub is right here in the City of Los Angeles – the unofficial capitol of our industry, and a city that has never really been the home to these types of content conferences. For years, we in this vital content community have been forced to spend unnecessary time and resources to traipse all over the world, leaving the heart and soul. of the footage community to buy and sell our wares in Alberta Canada (Banff), Miami (NATPE), Las Vegas (NAB), and France (Mipcom).
Growing exponentially every year, FootageFest continues to attract dozens of niche footage libraries, hundreds of archive and clearance professionals, producers, studio licensing reps, and regional footage research reps from Toronto, Mexico City, New York, as well as across the Atlantic – from the U.K., Ireland and, yes, The Middle East.
This past year in 2023, we reached a huge goal of hosting FootageFest in the historic El Portal Theater in the Noho district of Los Angeles. Over 300 attendees gathered for screenings, panels and networking events, under the support of our amazing sponsors Fox Archives, Retro video, 3P SYNC, LOLA Clips, CNN and News Exposure.
No region is too small; no language is too complex. FootageFest unites all of us to learn, discuss, challenge, and celebrate this amazing industry we have made our home.
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THE TEAM
DOMINIC DARE
Dominic has worked in video footage since 1997, specialising in developing businesses for UK companies in LA.
STEVE KOZAK
Steve Kozak is one of the top clip producers in the industry, having spent the last 20 years alone in late night television