Denver Creative Sustainability Summit: Morning Session

Join us for a conference designed specifically for creatives, featuring in-depth workshops on funding and distribution and panel discussions with local industry and creators on building sustainability in the Southeast. This is offered in partnership with The Colorado Office Film, Television, and Media (COFTM), the Denver Film Festival and many more amazing community partners. Check out our afternoon schedule below, panelists and more information coming soon!

Ticketholder lines at the Sie FilmCenter will be located in heated tents in the parking lot behind the Tattered Cover bookstore. When it is time to seat a theater, a staff member will lead ticketholders into the Sie FilmCenter for ticket scanning and seating. There will be no lines inside the Sie FilmCenter.

9:30am-10:00am

Welcome and Danza presented by Kalpulli ColorAztlan Quetzalcoatl and Inspire Justice

Kalpulli ColorAztlan Quetzalcoatl is a community Aztec Dance Circle based in Northeast Denver that will share their Danza during the Summit’s Welcome. Their mission is to ensure these traditions live on, along with their history, culture, philosophy, and knowledge. Inspire Justice is a social impact firm and production company. They engage, educate, organize, and train celebrities, influencers, and media companies to best leverage their talents, creativity, and platforms in service of transforming culture and social good.

10:00am-11:15am

Workshop 1: Crowdfunding to Build Independence

Our cornerstone class lays out the steps toward a successful crowdfunding campaign, as well as a career-long action plan most likely to create a lasting, flourishing, direct relationship with an audience. Attendees learn how to find your audience, structure your crowdfunding campaign, pick the right goal and incentives, and much more. Led by Emily Best, Founder & CEO of Seed&Spark.

11:30-12:15

Workshop 2: Six Steps to Build Your Own Distribution Playbook

Now more than ever, distribution is in the hands of the makers - which bring both tremendous opportunities as well as challenges. We break down six clear steps to developing a distribution playbook for your project to have the greatest chance of accomplishing your goals, and offer distribution tips, tactics and, most importantly, the economics for every window from theatrical through VOD and beyond. Led by Emily Best, Founder & CEO of Seed&Spark and Ami Vora, Head of Marketing at Kinema.

12:30-1:30 Local infrastructure Panel

Colorado is lucky to have tremendous people leading local institutions that support independent artists, and this panel of experts will focus on sharing how independent artists can leverage local resources and infrastructure to grow their careers.

Moderator: Randi Kleiner, Co-Founder and CEO, Seriesfest

Arielle Brachfeld, Deputy Film Commissioner and Special Projects Director, CO FIlm Office

Megha Agarwal Sood, Founder, Project Junglee

Jami Duffy, Executive Director, Youth on Record

Amber Payne, Chief Experience Officer, Rocky Mountain PBS

Live Streams and Captioning

For those not able to attend in person, live stream links for each workshop and panel will be provided one week before the event.

Live captioning will also be provided for each workshop and panel. Links for captioning will also be provided one week before the event.

Access & Presence NoticeRSVPs are required for each session. The venue space is limited, and acceptance will be on a first-come, first-served basis. We appreciate your cooperation and care in helping us steward the space responsibly.

We hope to see you there! And, check out our afternoon session if you would like to make it an all-day event!