Tribeca Film Institute at The New School: How to Make a Living as a Filmmaker or How to Make a Living and Still Be a Filmmaker THE NEW SCHOOL | www.newschool.edu You’ve completed your school work and made a few films in school, and now you need to figure out your next steps. What career options exist for filmmakers? How can you develop and raise money for a film project and still cover your living expenses? This panel addresses these questions and provides examples and answers relevant to all makers of film and other media. Sharon Badal (Moderator) is head short film programmer for the Tribeca Film Festival. She has been with the festival since its inception and has produced special projects for various Tribeca entities since 1999. She is the author of Swimming Upstream — A Lifesaving Guide to Short Film Distribution. Badal is on the faculty of New York University Tisch School of the Arts Department of Film & Television teaching Film Distribution & Marketing, Producing Essentials, Senior Colloquium and team-teaches The Business of Producing at the Stern School of Business. Sandi DuBowski is the Director of Trembling Before Gd, Producer of A Jihad for Love, and Co-Producer of Budrus. His award-winning work has screened at Sundance, Berlin, Toronto and over 200 festivals, had theatrical release in over 150 cities, aired on BBC, The Sundance Channel, ZDF-Arte. He is Outreach Director for The Good Pitch, was a media strategist with The Sundance Institute DFP at The 2010 …