HowtoSecureandManageYourAgentRelationship—YourQuestionsAnswered
We are pleased to announce a new Career Development session open to Full and Associate members; a director-focused webinar exploring all things agents!
How do I find an agent? How do I know which agent to choose? How can I change my agent? What exactly can an agent do for me? Is it necessary for me to have one at all?
This myth-buster session aims to answer these questions and more.
This event will take place on 12 October at 11am.
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Join Sara Putt from Sara Putt Associates, Matthew Bates from Sayle Screen and Directors UK member Samantha Harrie who will be covering key topics including:
- securing representation
- managing a relationship with your agent
- working effectively together.
- This event will take place on Tuesday 12 October at 11:00am on Zoom.
We would like to encourage members to ask questions in advance of the session. Please send your question to [email protected] by Tuesday 5 October and we will try cover it during the webinar.
Please note, there is no intention to run this as a pitching session. The purpose of this webinar is to ask questions and demystify the process of working with an agent.
About Sara Putt
Sara is Founder/MD of Sara Putt Associates, an agency for freelance film and TV directors, producers and Heads of Department. Sara Putt Associates also runs a bespoke Trainee and Foundation Scheme supporting new entrants to the industry. Sara is Deputy Chair of BAFTA, Chair of the BAFTA TV Committee and sits on the boards of the BFC, the Film and TV Charity and WFTV.
About Matthew Bates
Matthew has worked at Sayle Screen since the mid-1990s representing writers and directors working in film, TV and theatre. He also enjoys representing dramatic rights in a wide range of books.
After an English Literature degree Matthew qualified as a lawyer. An interest in stories and storytellers combined with the rigour of a legal training serves Matthew well as an agent.
About Samantha Harrie
Samantha’s career began as a fine-artist until a passion for storytelling led her to filmmaking. She has made numerous award winning short films and her TV credits include Coming Up, C4, Doctors, Holby City, BBC1 and Call The Midwife, through the prestigious DUK / HETV career development placement. Samantha is developing two authored TV series and her first feature. She is a graduate of the NFTS and an alumni of Guiding Lights 2, Microwave , NETWORK EiFF and BFI NETWORK X BAFTA CREW. Samantha is also a founding member of Cinesisters, the female director’s collective.
We will have live captioning available during the conversation and members are welcome to include their pronouns to their Zoom name, if comfortable.
Members should send questions in advance to [email protected] by Tuesday 5 October.
By registering for this event you are committing to attend.
A Zoom link will be sent out to registered members on Monday 11 October. We advise downloading Zoom to your device prior to joining the link for a better experience.
This event is open to Full and Associate members.
Do let us know if you have any feedback or suggestions via [email protected].