MARINA DEL REY

SEPTEMBER 26 - SEPTEMBER 28 2024

SCHEDULE

A preview of the panel lineup for FootageFest 2024

NOTE THAT PANELISTS AND TIMES ARE APPROXIMATE AND SUBJECT TO CHANGE

Alongside the panels listed below, FootageFest will include…

Our biggest marketplace to date, with over 40 vendors showcasing for the full two days of the event

Celebrations like our Closing Night Beach Party and rooftop Gala hosted by Fox Archives, Retro Video, and LOLA Clips

Endless networking opportunities during designated marketplace breaks between panels, plus hosted lunches and drinks at the venue.

FRIDAY

September 27 2024

8:30 AM

TALES FROM THE VAULTS:

Re-Imagining Your Immaculate Collection

Shout Factory's Brian Ward moderates a panel on restoring and scanning film elements, as well as digitizing video masters. Mark, Tony and Reed will explain the industry-wide issue with deteriorating film content.  Reed will show off his amazing film scanner that can scan film up to ten times as fast as normal scanner, while Ian will tell his mobile adventures of capturing the entire Farm Aid archive in a similar turnaround time.

PANELISTS

MODERATOR: Brian Ward

Sr. Director of Video Production and Digital Media, Shout Factory

Reed Bovee Owner

Reflex Technologies

Ian Marshall

Co-Owner, Retro Video

Tony Cunha Owner

Duplitech

Mark Smirnoff

President, Prasad Corporation

9:00 AM

EXHIBIT HALL OPENS

10:00 AM

It's All About the Content:

INT'L GOVERNMENT LIBRARIES

Top archive producer Elizabeth Klinck moderates a unique panel -- sponsored by the British Film Institute -- specializing in the archives from the governments of the United States, England, Belgium, Germany, France and Canada.  Learn what these specific institutions have in their archives, how to access their content, and watch a preview of just some of their unusual content.

PRESENTED BY

PANELISTS

MODERATOR: Elizabeth Klinck

E Klinck Research

Sandrine Sacarrere

Institute of National Audiovisual (FRANCE))

Simon McCallum

British Film Institute (U.K.)

Lea Nakonechny

National Film Board of Canada (CANADA)

Kieu Hoang

Institute of National Audiovisual (FRANCE)

Barbara Rodriguez

Sonuma (BELGIUM)

11:30 AM

HISTORICAL SHOW AND TELL

Global Image Works' Founder Jessica Bogdan-Berman moderates this year's panel featuring top historical archivists  in the industry, who tell a bit about their specific archival niche and show some of the hidden chestnuts from their libraries.

PANELISTS

MODERATOR: Jessica Bogdan-Berman

Global Image Works

Nick Spark

Periscope Film

Elizabeth Bowley

British Pathe

Morgan Gieringer Head

University of North Texas

Diane Paradiso

MPI Stock Footage Archive (formerly WPA library)

12:30 PM

LUNCH BREAK

2:30 PM

It's All About the Content:

VIRAL VIDEOS

Veteran Clip Show Producer Teddy Cannon (Ridiculousness) moderates a panel of viral video agents, including Newsflare, LPE360, Trusted Media Brands (formerly Jukin Media) and AFV.  Rohwedder offers some historical perspective on the beginnings of viral videos, and how they existed before the internet was created.  Cannon leads a discussion on how brokers work, and the advantages and disadvantages of having a viral video agency represent your content.  These agencies will show off a few of their favorite clips, and show the process of how to license this wild content into your projects.

PANELISTS

MODERATOR: Teddy Cannon

Supervising Producer, "Ridiculousness"

Eddie Rohwedder

Executive Producer "Fast & Loud"

James Hart

Launchpad Entertainment (LPE360)

Ruairidh Roberts

Newsflare

Andrew Dignan

"America's Favorite Videos", Licensing Consultant

4:15 PM

WATCHING THE DETECTIVES:

Case Studies of Recent Discoveries

Lizzy McGlynn, FOCAL International's Researcher of the Year, moderates a panel on some pf the amazing chestnuts discovered from the glorious variety television genre.  Multi-Emmy Award winner Binder will talk about unearthing a never-before-seen 1963 civil rights special featuring one of the last performances of Nat King Cole; Wingate will discuss his much-heralded discovery this year of some Milton Berle footage that has been identified as the earliest color television footage ever.  Marshall and Kozak will show some of their recent discoveries, and the latter offering a perspective from the producers' side on how this decades-old archival content has never been more in demand.

PANELISTS

Lizzy McGynn

Lizzy McGlynn Worldwide

Steve Binder

Owner, Rodan Productions

Dan Wingate

Archivist

Steve Kozak

Archive Producer, Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Ian Marshall

Co-Owner, Retro Video

7:00 PM

ROOFTOP GALA PARTY & TRIVIA QUIZ

Presented by FOX Archives

SATURDAY

September 28 2024

8:00 AM

WELCOME & BREAKFAST MESSAGE

Presented by Reelin’ in the Years

Dominic Dare

LOLA Clips

Steve Kozak

Archive Producer, Jimmy Kimmel Live!

8:30 AM

Case Study:

NEWS COVERAGE OF JFK ASSASSINATION

After commemorating last year's 60th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's assassination, award-winning archive producer Rich Remsburg (Netflix's Bobby Kennedy for President) moderates a unique case study on the compelling third-party content from this historical four days. Curators from the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza showcase recently-restored footage -- courtesy of Scene Savers -- from the First Couple's landing at Love Field, to the assassination itself, to the live local news coverage of the Dallas Police's hunt for the assassin. to Kennedy's medical status, to the arrest and subsequent shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald, and finally -- to the heartbreaking image of JFK Jr. as he salutes the horse-driven casket that carried the beloved President to his final resting place. Jennings, who produced Nat Geo's The Lost Tapes: The Assassination offers his perspective on the compelling content amassed over this tragic four days in history.

PANELISTS

MODERATOR: Rich Remsburg

Atlas Films

Paul Calardo

Scene Savers

Stephen Fagin

Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Megan Bryant

Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Tom Jennings

1895 Films, Owner

10:00 AM

It's All About the Content:

LOCAL NEWS

presented by News Exposure

Executive Producer of News Charles Stewart (Los Angeles Local News Executive Producer
) moderates a panel on acquiring and licensing locals news featuring content from both news affiliates, as well as top stringers from Los Angeles, Chicago and New York.  Joe represents the massive Tegna library (formerly Gannett), and Morgan of the University of North Texas reps other Texas stations.  Marika will share her adventures from the air capturing such iconic moments as the first discovery of OJ Simpson leading police on a slow-speed chase, as well as the infamous Reginald Denny beating during the 1992 L.A. riots.  Ukranian journalist Oliya Scootercaster will take us through her exploits as a Ukranian war journalist, as well as her time spent as a newly-inducted New York-based stringer. Legendary Chicago stringer David Lasker returns again to offer his perspective on local shooters, and digs into his amazing HD library of captured content.

PANELISTS

MODERATOR: Charles Stewart

Los Angeles Local News Executive Producer

Oliya Scootercaster

Founder, Freedom News

Marika Gerrard

Owner, L.A. News Service

David Lasker

News Exposure

Joe Marrone

Tegna News Agency / Nimia-Kurator

Morgan Gieringer

University of North Texas

11:30 AM

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE:

LEGAL & CLEARANCE RAMIFICATIONS

presented by GLOBAL IMAGE WORKS

Where does the responsibility lie in using this amazing new tool?  Leaders and professionals from the top trade associations in our genre will lead attendees in a roundtable discussion: Craig (FOCAL / UK), Klinck (VRSC / Canada), Jennings (PGA), Segal (AMCUP), Grayson (Ind. Federation of TV Archives), Fein (CLEAR), and Jenkins (of the newly-formed Archival Producers Alliance). Propper, assisted by these industry leaders, will try to address the issues and concerns of our attendees.  How vital it is for us all to embrace the reality of our future with AI, and with the created content that comes along with it -- and our ability -- or inability -- to keep up with these changes in this brave new world?

PANELISTS

Jonathan Segal, Esq.

Davis Wright Tremaine

Barry Dagestino

A & E Network

12:00 PM

GUIDELINES PROPOSAL FOR USING A.I.

Presented by Archive Producers Alliance (APA)

We present the newly-created Archive Producers Alliance and read their much-talked about open letter to the industry that address many of our concerns.  What responsibility do archivists have in the genetic make-up of this created content, and how much are producers responsible for the historical accuracy of the context into which this content is presented.

PANELISTS

Stephanie Jenkins

Co-Founder, Archival Producers Alliance

MODERATOR: Barry Dagestino

A & E Network

12:30 PM

LUNCH BREAK

2:00 PM

Artificial Intelligence:

CONTENT AUTHENTICITY INITIATIVE

presented by Adobe's Dana Rao

PANELISTS

Dana Rao

EVP, General Counsel, Chief Trust Officer, Adobe

Richard Propper

R Propper Consulting

2:30 PM

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE:

Where do we go from here?

We present the newly-created Archive Producers Alliance and read their much-talked about open letter to the industry that address many of our concerns.  What responsibility do archivists have in the genetic make-up of this created content, and how much are producers responsible for the historical accuracy of the context into which this content is presented.  Where does the responsibility lie in using the future of using this amazing new tool.  Leaders from top trade associations in our genre -- FOCAL, PGA, IFTA, DMLA, CLEAR, IDA and AMCUP -- will lead a roundtable discussion with our audience addressing our concerns, and our ability -- or inability -- to keep up with new software being created and used in today's projects.

PANELISTS

MODERATOR: Richard Propper

R Propper Consulting

Bryan Van Dyk

Getty Images

Alan Bradshaw

Global Archives, Associated Press

Dana Rao

Adobe

Tom Jennings

1895 Films

3:45 PM

It's All About the Content:

PROFESSIONAL & AMATEUR SPORTS

Archival Ninjas Founder Meghan Geier moderates a high-octane panel of some of the industry's top sports libraries. Robert Lois and Ben Godwin offer a glimpse into their amazing professional and college libraries, IMG Media and Catapult (formerly XOS Digital), respectfully.  Jackson New-Smith shares their experiences about licensing from the MLB, NBA and NFL. Spectacular stuntman Joe Jennings, who not only skydives in your favorite film, TV and commercials. he also shoots them, and represents most of that content.

PANELISTS