SHOW ME THE MONEY
WORKSHOP ON GRANT WRITING, PRESENTING AND SELLING PRODUCTION IDEAS

March 31, 2007
Workshop Facilitator: Donald Marbury

Registration Form

If you’re passionate about making sure that your dream film or video project becomes a reality – on screen…then we’ll show you the money – or at least we’ll show you how to write grant proposals that will get you the money you need!

On Saturday, March 31, 2007 from 10:00am-4:00pm, t he Department of Radio, Television and Film at Howard University in Washington, D.C.invites you to attend an intensive grant writing workshop called, Show Me The Money II. This workshop is designed to help practicing and aspiring producers of film, video or other media projects to better conceptualize, write and present competitive funding proposals to grants-making organizations and other funders.

Show Me The Money II is a hands-on workshop, using lecture, group and individual interaction, video, film and power point presentations and handouts to help you write fundable and marketable products for public broadcast. Uniquely, Show Me The Money participants are invited, but not required, to submit a 3-5 page synopsis of their production idea. All synopsis proposals will be professionally analyzed and critiqued.

Note: In order to take advantage of the critique portion of the workshop, participants must submit their synopsis proposals by March 17 th. (See Synopsis Requirements below).

TheShow Me The Moneyworkshop will be facilitated by Donald Marbury, a media producer, programmer and fundraiser, who has been called one of the most influential professionals in public broadcasting. During his 17 years as a programming executive for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) in Washington, DC, Marbury managed approximately $60 million dollars in funding dollars for broadcast projects. Currently, Marbury heads his own television consulting company, Under One Sky Media, and he was a recent advisor on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) series Muhammad: The Life of a Prophet.

This workshop will also feature a panel of distinguished representatives from major national funding organizations such as the Carnegie Foundation, the National Black Programming Consortium, ITVS and the Rockefeller Foundation.

Show Me the Money will help producers of short and long form documentaries, dramas, performance programs, series and stand-alone special programs to better design fundable and marketable products for media showcase. While the workshop is primarily designed to assist producers who are drawn to the world of independent production in public broadcasting, it should be equally helpful to those with careers in commercial stations, networks, or studio production.

TheShow Me the Money early registration deadline is Saturday, March 24, 2007. Registration fees are $100.00 per person through March 24th, and $125.00 per person starting Monday, March 26, 2007.

Please send (or bring) your completed registration form, along with your cash, cashiers check or money order ( sorry no personal checks accepted) made out to the HU Department of Radio, Television and Filmto the following address:

Ms. Renee’ Harris
Office Manager
Howard University
Department of Radio, Television and Film
525 Bryant Street, NW , Room C-230
Washington, DC 20059

For additional information, please contact Ms. Sakinah Munir at the following email address or telephone/fax numbers: smunir@howard.edu or (202) 806-4507-office; (202) 806-4844-fax.

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SYNOPSIS REQUIREMENTS

If you decide to submit an OPTIONAL production proposal to be professionally critiqued by workshop facilitator Donald Marbury, your typed, 3-5 page synopsis MUST:

• Include a detailed production treatment that clearly, creatively and succinctly conjures up the concept in the reader's mind. This is a vision statement and it should enable the reader to visualize a concise picture of what this production might look like when brought to fruition.
• Spend considerable time discussing the production techniques that will be employed in the making of this program.
• Discuss the key production elements, on-camera talent and interview subjects, access to shooting sites, utilization and availability of stills and archival footage, music, etc.
• Include a general production budget [not counted in the 3-5 page limit]
• Construct a needs statement about why the production is important; what makes it unique--a "must have" rather than "nice-to-have." This statement may include research showing how the proposed new production will be different, serving a different audience, or simply be better.
• Identify the project’s potential broadcast, cablecast, narrowcast, video or film venue.
• Include a biographic statement (one paragraph) on each of the key production and creative principles, i.e. executive producer, producer, director, writer, etc. [not counted in 3-5 page limit]
• Include a statement detailing the dollars that have already been raised toward the project or funding organizations to which it has already been submitted.
• Include any secondary marketing plans, i.e., educational, merchandising, websites, DVD, etc.

10 . Indicate the production and creative team's commitment to the project

11. Be received by the synopsis submission deadline

Synopsis Submission Deadline: March 17, 2007

Synopsis Proposals may be sent as a hard copy with the registration form and payment.

If you decide to send the synopsis electronically, additional materials such as full scripts, storyboards, talent commitments, full production budgets, production coordination plans, etc., may be submitted as a separate attachment. Your synopsis attachments MUST be labed with your initials (i.e., if your name is Joe Smith, the attachment should be labeled SMTM-JS Synopsis).

Only if the production is a work-in-progress, may a sample may be sent on cassette or DVD. PleaseDO NOT send previous work or compilation tapes.

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FACILITATOR BIOGRAPHY

Donald Marbury

Don Marbury is currently the president and CEO of his own television consulting company, Under One Sky Media. In addition, he is a lecturer in the Department of Radio, Television, and Film at Howard University, and recently served as an advisor on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) series, Muhammad: The Life of a Prophet.

For nearly twenty years, Marbury was one of the top programming administrators for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). As Vice President for Television Programs, Marbury controlled approximately $60 million in funding dollars for productions destined for the national PBS schedule. He was intimately involved in the creation, funding and maintenance of programs appearing on PBS from 1980-1997; including important independent producer series like the Independent Television Program Service (ITVS), Point of View (POV), and literally thousands of other station-based and independent productions.

Marbury’s CPB programming decisions helped seasoned public broadcast producers earn scores of Emmys and Oscars, and provided broadcast opportunities for then up-and-coming producers like Ken Burns and Henry Hampton - men who are now icons in the television and film industries. In a 1995 profile, Broadcasting Magazine, called Marbury “one of the most powerful African American men in television in America,” while a 1997 profile in the Washington Post credited him with setting “the program direction of U.S. public television over the last decade.”

Prior to joining CPB, Marbury worked as an on-air reporter and television program host, producer and executive producer of local and national programs for WQED-TV, Pittsburgh.

Donald Marbury is a seasoned grant writing facilitator, having conducted many such workshops during his illustrious 27-year long career.