The Knowledge - Sue Maslin
CSB has been working for months on an exciting project with film journalist Andrew Urban of Urbancinefile. We’re interviewing film and television practitioners about their business experiences.
Our aim is to develop a deeper understanding about the history of business decision-making in film and television and to share with our audience the wisdom from the accumulated mistakes, experiments and achievements of the contributors.
Sue Maslin - biography
Sue Maslin is an award-winning producer of feature films and documentaries. She produced the feature documentary Hunt Angels, winner of the 2006 AFI Award for Best Documentary, and Japanese Story, which won 26 awards including Best Film at the 2003 Australian Film Institute Awards and the IF Showtime Awards and was an official selection for the Cannes International Film Festival. Prior to Hunt Angels, she was Executive Producer on the feature film Irresistible, starring Susan Sarandon and Sam Neill.
Sue has produced many award-winning documentaries for Film Art Doco which have screened on ABC TV, including A Mirror to the People, The Highest Court, Conspiracy, Mr. Neal is Entitled to be an Agitator and Thanks Girls and Goodbye. The Edge of the Possible, a film about Jorn Utzon and the Sydney Opera House, won the Gold Plaque for Best Television Documentary at the 1999 Chicago International Film Festival.
Sue has also lectured at AFTRS, Melbourne University and RMIT, and has been active in the screen production community as a board member of the Adelaide Film Festival and Film Victoria, as Director of the Australian Film Institute and as President of Women in Film and Television (Australia).
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Chapter 1 - Business models and partnerships - 14 minutes
- The screen producer – all screens
- Working out business models, and working in creative teams
- Financing for various platforms and territories
- Business model built on a slate
- Looking for strategic partnerships
- Government support
- Japanese Story made a lot of money for distributors - but not for the producer
- Special purpose vehicles for production
- Capitalising the company
- The right people are crucial
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Chapter 2 - Success and expectation- 9 minutes
- Assessing success
- Financing Japanese Story - and its commercial prospects
- Road To Nhill - defied expectations
- Second-guessing the market is not useful
- Protecting your work as a producer
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Chapter 3 - Cross-platform development and the producer offset - 11 minutes
- Business planning for several platforms
- Narrative v interactive
- Hunt Angels and cross-platform projects
- Valuing the business
- Impact of the producer offset
- Expanding creative capital
- Producer offset and the portfolio approach to projects
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Chapter 4 - Lessons and motivations - 14 minutes
- Mistakes to learn from: the commercialisation of Hunt Angels
- Input from distributors and input to distributors
- Fragmentation of audiences
- Fascinated by history – what we are, what made us
- Motivated by ideas
- Being in control
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