• UK Landscape

Dawn McCarthy-Simpson MBE, Managing Director of Business Development & Global Strategy at PACT’s presentation on a post-COVID, post-Brexit update on the UK screen sector.

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• Resources from Telling our Stories – Representation in the Screen Sector

Resources from our panel conversation on how to facilitate equitable representation in the screen sector with panelists from the Black Screen Office, the Indigenous Screen Office, the Creative Diversity Network, and the BBC:

• ON-SCREEN PROTOCOLS & PATHWAYS: A Media Production Guide to Working with First Nations, Métis and Inuit Communities,Cultures, Concepts and Stories
• Creative Diversity Network Diamond resources
• Being Seen: Directives for Creating Authentic and Inclusive Content
• Being Counted: Canadian Race-based Audience Survey
• Being Heard: Black Canadians Working in the Screen Industries
• Creative BC EDI Workforce Development – Creative Pathways

• Co-pro check list

Considerations for next co-production – a discussion with producers from British Columbia and Wales on their current co-production project, including do’s and don’ts and helpful tips for a successful partnership.

Co-Production Agreement Questions to Consider

1. Will all rights in the underlying IP be transferred to the co-production or will some rights be held back? When will these rights revert
2. How much will each party contribute to the costs of development and who has control over these funds?  Who will prepare the development budget? What will the party with IP receive for underlying rights if the production is made?  Will there be any reimbursement for costs incurred prior to the start of the co-production
3. How will responsibility for making applications for development financing be shared and in whose name will these applications be made?
4. How will decisions regarding the production budget be made?
5. Who is responsible for raising production financing and determining if enough financing has been secured to go into production? Will a bonus or fee go to one party if they are able to secure a significant piece of financing? Will a single purpose production company be incorporated once financing is committed?  If so, how will it be structured?  Who will oversee interim financing, if any?
6. What roles will be played by the parties and what fees will be payable for those roles? If a role is to be shared, who will have final decision-making authority?  How will the overhead component of the budget be shared?
7. Who will have final decision-making authority for creative decisions?
8. Who will have final decision-making authority for financial decisions?
9. Who will be responsible for exploitation of the production, once completed?
10. Who will hold copyright and how will revenue from the production be shared?
11. Who will be responsible for production accounting and what rights of inspection will the other party have?
12. What happens if the rights in the production revert (generally because the parties are unable to raise enough financing to go into production)? To whom do the rights revert and on what conditions?