Filmmakers come have your Mr. Smith moment in Washington, DC. This is an opportunity for filmmakers to converge on Capitol Hill for a morning of panels and individual sessions with members of Congress and their staff, focusing on issues of particular importance to the industry. This is the only venue for independent filmmakers and policymakers to discuss and propose initiatives that will help to produce films in the United States. If you would like to participate, email us at: summit@dciff.org.

The Independent Film Summit on the Hill

Thursday, March 4, 2010, 9am

Location: Rayburn House Office Building, room 2168 (Gold Room)

Independent Film Summit on the Hill 2010 Committee:

• - Deirdre Evans-Pritchard, DCIFF Government Relations Director

• - Phil Calabrese, DCIFF Seminar Director

• - Nina Streich, "Filmmakers on the Hill" advisor

• - Carol Bidault, Executive Director and Founder, DCIFF

For information about the 2009 Summit and participants Upcoming Summit: March 4, 2010. Get involved now!

- Get involved now! Contact summit@dciff.org and let us know how you would like to help

- Complete the survey - Let us know what are the important issues that face our industry

- Sponsor the Summit! Contact summit@dciff.org

- Join us at the working roundtables around the year (see schedule below)

- Help formulate the topics of discussion for the 2010 summit (tax incentives, studies on the independent film sectors, etc) and other initiatives that will help stimulate investment and facilitate independent film production

- Suggest important independent film sector stakeholders that should be invited to the 2010 summit- Recommend issues that will be considered for the 3 to 5 year plan for the Summit.

Upcoming Working Roundtables: To RSVP, contact summit@dciff.org

- May 2009 - Cannes Film Festival (May 15th at 11am, American Pavilion)

- November 2009 - American Film Market

- February 2010 - Washington, DC Independent Film Festival - Pre-Event

- March 4, 2010 - Washington, DC Independent Film Festival - on Capitol Hill

Join us at this public event as we raise the profile of independent filmmaking

on Capital Hill, March 4, 2010

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