On May 28, the SkillBillPro master class “Content distribution. Local and international sales. Content markets”.
The master class will cover the following questions:
• Content distribution market. How it works.
• Types of rights. Sales chains. Hold-back.
• Sales methods. Dialogue between buyer and distributor.
• Content markets are where deals are made. How to Prepare for Successful Market Participation
• Features of international sales. Preference for territories by genres and types of content.
• When to contact a distributor and when to sell yourself
Master class experts: Igor Storchak, CEO of FILM.UA Distribution and Evgeniy Drachov, international sales manager of FILM.UA Group, director of Real Channels.
Igor Storchak
Specialization: content purchases and sales, international distribution, international co-production, producing, TV channel programming. Work experience in media – more than 14 years.
Selected Employers:
2007 – still FILM UA Distribution, Ukraine, Director
2001 – 2007 “New Channel”, Ukraine, Program Director
Main professional achievements:
Construction and successful management of the largest content sales network in the post-Soviet space, the potential of which is recognized not only in Ukraine, but also far beyond its borders. As a result of the work of the sales service led by Igor Storchak, more than 2,000 hours of content are sold annually.
Establishing successful cooperation, including the creation of joint television projects, between Ukrainian content producers and the largest Russian television channels “Channel One”, “Russia”, “STS”, “TNT” and others. Many years of successful cooperation with major Hollywood studios FOX, Disney, Sony Pictures.
Regular participant in the most important industry events around the world, including international content markets MIPCOM and MIPTV (Cannes, France), EFM film market (Berlin, Germany), DISCOP (Turkey), TV show (Moscow), NATPE (Turkey, Hungary, Africa) , AFM (Los Angeles, USA), FILMART (Hong Kong) and others.
Member of the jury of the qualifying rounds of the international EMMY award (2008–2012). Expert of the Ukrainian national television award “Teletriumph”.
Producer of the successful docudrama series “Great Dreamers” (2012) and the television film “Single under Contract” (2014).
Evgeniy Drachov
International Sales Manager, FILM.UA Group, Ukraine.
For more than eight years, he has been distributing various types of television content to different territories. Thanks to his work, Ukrainian content is watched in more than 40 countries around the world. One of the first Ukrainian distributors to present Ukrainian content on the international markets MIPTV, MIPCOM, FILMART (Hong Kong), DISCOP Africa in South Africa, is a regular participant in the largest content markets around the world.
In 2015, he headed the Real Channels company, which will broadcast 2 channels: FILMUAMOUR and FILMUACTION.
The master class will take place on May 28 from 19:00 to 21:00