Noted international film journalist Colin Brown has just joined the senior team at Slated in the newly created position of Editorial Director. 

Colin will oversee the creation of informational tools and resources designed to help investors navigate the business intricacies of the global film industry. In addition, Colin will act as a strategic advisor in Slated’s international expansion plans.

Prior to joining us, Colin was an award-winning editor and journalist who was most closely identified with Screen International. As Editor-in-Chief, a title he held for a decade, he has overseen the publication of daily printed newspapers at all the leading film markets including the American Film Market and the film festivals of Cannes, Berlin and Toronto. 

Colin led the publication's push into conferences targeted specifically at the film industry's global deal-making community. He launched, programmed and chaired several annual events, including both the European Film Finance Summit held at the Berlin Film Festival and the UK Film Finance Conference in London.  

He continues to moderate industry events including those at the Cannes Film Festival, the Asian Film Market in South Korea and Hong Kong’s FilmMart. He also serves as an ongoing industry consultant for the Dubai International Film Festival.

We're extremely fortunate to have Colin join us. Our goal at Slated is to shepherd in a new era of financiers that have previously not had access to the quality of viable independent films listed on our site. Education and expansion are key parts of that mission. We feel Colin's experience, objectivity as a journalist, and clarity in thought and writing can bridge the communication gap between the investment community and filmmakers closing deals. 

Colin kindly said to us: “As someone who has spent years chronicling the financial challenges faced by filmmakers across the globe, I immediately recognized Slated’s fantastic potential for unlocking new sources of film money and for serving as a communal laboratory for transparent business models that will help fuel the world’s content explosion. The genius of Slated’s new platform is that it harnesses the same social technologies that have revolutionized the funding of Silicon Valley start-ups, but does so in a way that plays to the discretion, trust mechanics and relationship-based peculiarities of this wonderfully crazy business called cinema.”

So look out for Colin’s exclusive op-ed pieces coming shortly. Welcome Colin!

Hello all,

It is my utmost pleasure to announce very first films for which Slated secured financing.  My sincerest congratulations go out to filmmakers Christian Camargo and Marina Zenovich and their entire teams for successfully using Slated to attract the finance needed for their films.

Christian’s currently Untitled retelling of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull and Marina’s Roman Polanski: Odd Man Out, a follow-up to the award-winning theatrical documentary Roman Polanski: Wanted And Desired, have officially become the first two feature film projects to raise significant portions of their production funding through our site.  

The film marks Christian’s directorial debut and has attracted a stellar cast that also includes Allison Janney, (Juno, The Help) who is set to play the role of a movie actress, the modern-day incarnation of Irina Arkadina in The Seagull.  Academy Award-winner William Hurt (Into The Wild, History Of Violence) will play her ailing brother, and Katie Holmes will play the temperamental daughter of the estate's caretaker.  Also in talks to join this ensemble are Russell Means (The Last of The Mohicans), Jean Reno (The Professional), Mark Rylance (Anonymous, The Other Boleyn Girl) and Juliet Rylance (Sinister).

Juliet is producing with Barbara Romer, the founder and CEO of New Globe Theater, and with Co-producer Ed Vassallo.

Roman Polanski: Odd Man Out is produced by Lila Yacoub, Odd Man Out explores the recent legal wrangling involved in trying to bring Mr. Polanski back to the United States after more than 30 years of exile.  A saga that plays out over two continents, Odd Man Out re-teams the original film’s executive producers Steven Soderbergh and Randy Wooten.

Christian’s Untitled film grabbed the attention of Mark Stewart, a film investor on Slated, who promptly began discussions with the creative team. As Mark kindly said, “Slated is a fantastic and much needed innovation in independent film finance. As a private investor it provides me the opportunity to be involved in high caliber films and such is the quality of the projects, I invested within a week of joining.”

In the case of Roman Polanski: Odd Man Out, the documentary gained traction with several investors almost immediately after it was listed.

Lila, producer of Odd Man Out gave us an amazing quote saying, “Slated investors were a great fit with the rest of our financing, and came together to support the project at a perfect time for us.  The ease in which Slated is able to match investors with the appropriate project is a testament to how well the Slated team understands the process of financing a film". Thanks Lila.

I once again extend our warmest congratulations to these teams.  This is the reason we exist and we are thrilled that Slated has helped unlock film financing for these films as they have all the values we believe in and have made it our mission to support: talented creative teams that develop and package viable projects for today’s market.

Duncan Cork

CEO, Slated, Inc.

After many sleepless nights and working on weekends, all of us at Team Slated are all excited to finally have you here. This is our first blog, our initial opening, our genesis...so I'd like to take the chance to let you know what's been happening at Slated HQ.

Over the summer, we sent out a mailing to those that may have wanted a Private Beta invitation. Our initial outreach resulted in an overwhelming response, and we've been inundated with thousands of requests for invitations from investors and filmmakers.

For those of you that made it...welcome. For those that didn't, we do apologize. We had very limited availability but we will be opening up the site in the coming months and will let you know when that happens.

As a company, we are very mindful of the importance of meaningful business relationships. Right now, we are very focused on helping our community to increase network reach, manage dealflow, and get in front of quality vetted films and a trusted network of filmmakers, investors, distributors and sales agents.

We have a lot more in store for you and will continue to grow and improve this site as rapidly as we can. And if you are one of the pioneers to use Slated, your opinions are invaluable, so please do not hesitate to send your comments to us through our feedback system found on the bottom right corner of the site. We'd love to hear from you.

That's all for now. I look forward to seeing you online. 

From now till then

Duncan Cork, CEO