Legal Rights and Clearances for Indie Filmmakers (BAFF Fall Conference)

Big Apple Film Festival

Information for filmmakers on obtaining all necessary Rights, Clearances and Legal Agreements when making and distributing an independent film, including music rights, archival footage, book adaptation rights, bio pic life rights, copyrights and more... Rosalind Richter (Entertainment Attorney and Producer, credits include "My Depression, the Up and Down and Up of It", starring the voices of Sigourney Weaver, Steve Buscemi and Fred Armisen, "Welcome to Marwen" with Robert Zemekis directing and starring Steve Carrell, Emmy award winning documentary, "I Am Evidence," produced by Mariska Hargitay with HBO, feature documentary Academy Award nominee "My Architect" Gabriella Ludlow (CinePointe Advisors, has over 25 years of business affairs and project management experience in the entertainment industry. She has provided consulting services, as well as business affairs and production legal services on more than 150 feature and documentary film projects, including Motherless Brooklyn, Lady Bird, The Disaster Artist, The Meyerowitz Stories, The Grudge, etc.) Jonathan Lipp (MODERATOR, Big Apple Film Festival Director)