Sponsors
If you are in search of potential partners, products, and services to help take your festival to the next level, you'll find it on the 2012 IMFCON Exhibit Floor. Our list is growing weekly so be sure to check back often for updates.
For more information about Exhibition & Sponsorship
Feel free to Contact us at:
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(e) info@imfcon.com
Air Comm is a Motorola authorized two-way radio dealer that provides customers with a wide variety of two-way radios and radio equipment suited to each customer's individual needs. With over 30 years of experience, Air Comm supplies and services customers ranging from small businesses needing just a few radios, to large nationwide corporations requiring multi-million
dollar systems. Air Comm also offers customers the option of renting
radios through its rental division. Rental radios start at only a $1.99 per
day. www.aircomm.com
The Emblem Source specializes in producing embroidered patches for creative event solutions. We supply music festivals, fan fests and several other music shows with embroidered VIP patches and retail patches. We enjoy teaming-up with our customers to produce creative solutions for their special events. Our projects are on budget and on-time. The Emblem Source goes the extra mile to ensure their customers’ events/programs are a success.www.theemblemsource.com
At Eventbrite, we believe that selling tickets is no longer just a monetary transaction. We see ticketing as an opportunity to leverage technology—to help event holders be smarter about how they allocate marketing dollars, generate cash flow, and understand their attendees. We help our event holders grow their events, build their brand, and ultimately increase revenue by offering the perfect attendee experience. Founded in 2006 and backed by Sequoia Capital, Eventbrite has helped event organizers sell over 16 million tickets. www.eventbrite.com
Find Festival Jobs is a free web based service designed to help employers and job seekers, interns and volunteers connect through one easy website. Employers can post positions at no cost. Seekers, interns and volunteers can search for jobs, create a profile and upload their resume. www.findfestivaljobs.com
Karl’s Event Services is a world class company providing rental items and services to customers around the globe. Founded in 1966, Karl’s is privately owned with continuous focus on quality and innovation. Karl’s maintains the largest clearspan structure inventory available in North America along with a wide array of additional items such as flooring, staging, hard wall, glass wall, doors, lights, frame and pole tents, chairs, tables, and more. Karl’s numerous locations and vast inventory have allowed them to provide services to customers in each of the continental United States along with countries around the world including Canada and Kuwait. www.karls.com
National Event Services has been partnering with concerts, festivals, air show, sporting events, marathons, golf tournaments, and party planners for 50 years.Our quality fencing, crowd control barricades, portable toilets, high end comfort stations, ticket booths and mobile storage containers will take your event to a higher level. Call National today! www.nationaleventservices.com
Our mission is to help create and empower an Artistic Middle Class through the use of innovative technology.We want Sonicbids to be a place where any band from any genre anywhere in the world, can come to find and connect with any type of music promoter, licensor or consumer brand — easily, effectively, and quickly. www.sonicbids.com
Sync Up is an entertainment industry conference that we do during the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. www.syncupconference.com
TicketBiscuit provides online ticketing systems and innovative promotional and marketing solutions to hundreds of venues and promoters nationwide. With system enhancements and new features added every two weeks, the company never stops innovating to help clients sell more tickets. For more information about TicketBiscuit, please visit www.ticketbiscuit.com.
Ticketfly is the fastest-growing, independent ticketing and social marketing platform. Ticketfly offers event promoters next-generation ticketing and powerful website and social marketing tools, saving them time and money. Ticketfly was created by the team who first brought event ticketing to the Web. Recently, Fast Company named Ticketfly one of the Top 10 Most Innovative Companies in Music and Billboard called Ticketfly one of the Five Hot Digital Music Companies to Watch. For more information on Ticketfly, visit www.ticketfly.com.
United Site Services is the nationwide portable sanitation industry leader. We are the most experienced and trusted provider of quality portable restrooms, hand washing stations, fence, and restroom trailer rentals. Our event planning specialists are available in every market to help you design exactly the right solution for your event. Our operations team, including 22 managers with an average 15 years experience in portable sanitation, is prepared to provide delivery and service when and where you need it without fail. Rely on us for your portable sanitation needs. www.unitedsiteservices.com
Vendini is the leader in cloud-based ticketing solutions. Thousands of organizations utilize Vendini's solutions for event promotion, ticket sales, box office management and mobile ticketing and scanning. The company's suite of applications includes a fully integrated marketing system to promote events via email and social networks like Facebook and Twitter. With over a decade of experience, Vendini is the preferred provider for thousands of organizations including Brigham Young University, Folk West, Arena Theater in Houston and Irvine Barclay Theatre. Come by our exhibit for a quick demo - see what the fuss is about. www.vendini.com
VolunteerLocal has been empowering music festivals, athletic competitions, community festivals, and non-profit events to success since 2003. Born out of a need identified by Des Moines Arts Festival, our web-based software has proven to be a key component in managing the volunteer force that is so vital to events that range from the MAHA Music Festival to the AAU Junior Olympic Games to the World Food Festival. www.volunteerlocal.com
An industry leader in custom ticket design and event ticket printing for more than 100 years, Weldon, Williams and Lick, Inc. offers a complete array of stock and custom tickets, parking permits, roll tickets, credentials, passes, gift certificates, coupon books, wristbands and arm bands.
Weldon, Williams & Lick can handle all of your admission and access needs. Let our experienced staff help you with any and all of your custom security printing needs. www.wwlinc.com
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Media and Association Partners
BLURT
BLURT is a quarterly magazine and multimedia website covering music, comedy,
politics, culture and assorted debauchery. Founded by the creators of the
critically acclaimed HARP Magazine (called "America's best music magazine" by NPR's Bob Boilen and "the best music magazine in the country and the one
that musicians always read" by Foo Fighter Dave Grohl). BLURT raises the bar
for modern music and entertainment magazines and websites by combining
insightful features, provocative blogs, irreverent interviews, relentless
reviews, and first-class design standards. Visit us online at www.BLURT-online.com
CelebrityAccess
is the ultimate resource for the entertainment professional and the largest provider of news and information to the live performance entertainment industry for over 10 years. CelebrityAccess provides profiles on over 40,000 celebrities including direct and detailed contact information, bios for celebrity managers and agents, promoters, venues, talent buyers and sellers. CelebrityAccess also provides tour dates, box office scores, performance fee ranges and more keeping you up to date and on top of the fast changing industry. Enroll for a FREE Trial and subscribe to Encore our weekly E-Zine now reaching to over 100,000 entertainment industry professionals and decision makers. For more information visit our website www.celebrityaccess.com All IFFS members, attendees and associates of IFFS will receive a 3-Day Free Trial of our service; a $100 discount on all new annual membership subscriptions.
CelebrityAccess EventWire provides the entertainment industry with current news, data, and profiles on over 40,000 entertainers and their representatives including direct emails, phone/fax, bios, tour dates, performance fees, production requirements, box office scores, and more. Agents, managers, talent buyers, and venues are just a few of the many types of data included on the site. Extensive business tools streamline the business of buying/selling talent and communicating within the industry. A FREE Trial is available at http://www.celebrityaccess.com. Contact CelebrityAccess at sales@celebrityaccess.com.
Cineuropa
was created in 2002 in order to provide up-to-date information and other services essential to know one another better to cinephiles from all over the world interested in knowing more about European films, as well as to film and television professionals. Cineuropa is therefore a fantastic tool for whoever loves, produces, distributes, or makes films – or whoever wishes to learn how to make them – as well as for institutions that promote European culture and for those that make the rules. www.cineuropa.org
Digital Cinematography magazine
explores the challenges of managing digital content, from acquisition through post and on to distribution. Editorial coverage focuses on the creative, technical and business challenges of the digital workflow, including cinematography and image acquisition, the digital intermediate process, scanning, recording and mastering, storage and data management, digital delivery and projection. www.uemedia.net/CPC/
digitalcinemamag/index.shtml
Since 1993, DV Magazine has served the information needs of professionals involved in the production, postproduction, and delivery of digital video. Written and produced by experts in the field, DV provides objective, hard-hitting, in depth product information. http://www.dv.com/magazine/
The online community for film festival professionals fest21.com welcomes the premier video blog platform: bound to become home of upcoming filmmakers with a quality choice of film blogs with streaming film (up to 500M storage) It has become the reference address for festival blogging, posting dailies, audio podcasts or videos, viral information; festival goers share ambiance, tips, reviews... All blogs are empowered with RSS technology which allows easy syndication and better ranking in search engines. www.fest21.com
Film Festivals
Non stop film festivals, nothing but festivals. The leading worldwide online media for festival news serving the international community since 1995; with up to 3 M pages a month. The only online media strictly dedicated to festival activities includes directory, news and awards and specific services for festivals looking for international entries. Film Festivals offers a unique opportunity to reach filmmakers who wish to submit their film or short to festival for consideration. The site has a database of 10 000 films and 3 900 film festivals and approximately 9 000 journalists. www.filmfestivals.com
Film Festival Today is a tool and a community which allows you to discover, select, share and discuss the news, videos, and podcasts that appeal to you as a filmmaker. Direct cinema, the French New Wave, and other movements that profoundly shaped the future of cinema were spurred by greater access to cinematic tools. With the same sophisticated post-production technology increasingly in the hands of both industry professionals and independent artists, audiences can look forward to another new wave of creative voices and cinematic styles. FFT hopes to assist you on your filmmaking voyage. filmfestivaltoday.com
FilmMaker Magazine
Published quarterly, FILMMAKER covers the most intriguing independent feature films that will be released in theaters over the subsequent three months. Active filmmakers, directors, producers, cinematographers, writers, and editors throughout the independent film and digital cinema community read FILMMAKER for an incisive look at the industry today. FILMMAKER readers are leaders in their field, determined to be involved in the production of interesting, intelligent independent films. www.filmmakermagazine.com
Film Threat
Continuing in the tradition set forth by the original print magazine, FilmThreat.com delivers the best in film reviews, film festival coverage, exclusive filmmaker interviews and original video content. From blogs toonline forums, FilmThreat.com is on the cutting edge of online journalism,while staying as renegade as ever. www.filmthreat.com
FUSICOLOGY is a Hub for Progressive Culture and Lifestyle. By aggregating event listings, relevant news and music for tastemakers, Fusicology.com empowers like-minded progressives and trendsetters.
With sustained presence over 20 markets in the United States and Canada, an expansion to additional international markets is currently in development; Defining the Soul Diaspora since 2003. http://fusicology.com/
Festival Network Online publishes the most extensive and comprehensive database of festivals and fairs in North America. We wrap this data around technologically current tools and resources relevant to the professional exhibiting artist, craftperson, musician, band, service provider, booking agent, vendor, promoter, and festival goer. FNO is a leader in the festival and fair industry. We publish our event data on 20,000+ festivals, art and craft shows, music festivals, and other events, and provide a social network platform for members of this market. www.festivalnet.com
THE INTERNATIONAL FILM GUIDE
The International Film Guide is recognised as the most authoritative and well-respected annual review of world cinema providing unique coverage of contemporary cinema and international film festivals in one handy volume comprising over 460 pages. The complementary website provides a ‘dual platform’ with regularly updated original news, views, photos and features from the worlds of international and independent cinema and the film festival circuit. Our regular Spotlight section provides a series of individual Spotlights either on leading international film festivals offering day-to-day coverage of events and screenings, as well as profiling companies at the cutting edge of film technology and production. www.internationalfilmguide.com
IFP
After debuting with a program in the 1979 New York Film Festival, IFP has evolved into the nation's oldest & largest organization of independent filmmakers, and also the premier advocate for them. Since its start, IFP has supported the production of 7,000 films and provided resources to more than 20,000 filmmakers - voices that otherwise might not have been heard. IFP believes that independent films enrich the universal language of cinema, seeding the global culture with new ideas, kindling awareness, & fostering activism. IFP has fostered early work by such filmmakers as Charles Burnett, Edward Burns, Jim Jarmusch, Barbara Kopple, Michael Moore, Mira Nair and Kevin Smith. For more information about IFP’s membership and year-round programs, www.ifp.org
IFQ
is a film and music magazine started in 2002 for filmmakers, screenwriters, artists, musicians and business professionals. IFQ magazine consists of film & music interviews, along with film & music reviews. IFQ is publishes a Special Cannes Film Festival Edition and Special AFM Edition each year. www.independentfilmquarterly.com
The International Ticketing Association’s 33rd Annual Conference & Exhibition, scheduled for January 17-19, 2012 at the Grand Hyatt San Antonio, Texas, is a premier three-day conference and exhibition that will provide valuable insights and networking opportunities for companies and organizations within the entertainment ticketing industry. To register for the INTIX 33rd Annual Conference & Exhibition, visit http://intix12.ontrackeventcenter.com/.
MovieMaker
is the nation's leading magazine on the art and business of making movies and the most widelyread magazine on independent film in the world. MovieMaker's core readership is comprised of all levels of working moviemakers; editorial content satisfies this constituency by reporting from the independent, digital and studio sectors.
MovieMaker's Cooperative Program offers businesses of all shapes and sizes (festivals, film schools, associations, film offices and independent businesses) the chance to become a true partner with our organization. For less than the price of one single print advertisement, your Cooperative membership entitles you to a package of benefits, including multiple print ads, editorial coverage, Website exposure at MovieMaker.com, complimentary subscriptions for your clients and much more. www.moviemaker.com
Namac
The National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture (NAMAC) is a nonprofit association whose membership comprises a diverse mix of organizations and individuals dedicated to a common goal: the support and advocacy of independent film, video, audio and online/multimedia arts. www.namac.org
P3
P3 is the only monthly trade publication that provides comprehensive updates on the latest on-location film, digital, technology, and equipment developments for television, films, commercials, and documentaries. P3's mission is to provide advanced information on locations, methods and tools
that help producers, directors, cinematographers, and crewmembers film their
visions. www.p3update.com
ProductionHUB, Inc.
is the leading online resource and industry directory for film, television, video and digital media production. Developed as a tool for people to locate production products, services and professionals, ProductionHUB has grown to become the number one production search engine. Over 200,000 monthly users rely on ProductionHUB to deliver up-to-date information related to the production industry. www.productionhub.com
The Reeler
is a paean to and an unofficial resource for news, happenings and gossip emerging from the world of New York City cinema. The Reeler brings you news features, profiles, reviews, festival information, party coverage and event listings--all settled into their own separate, easy-to-find sections. The focus remains the same: to bring you the latest news and trends from New York film culture, from the DIY world to the city's biggest premieres. www.thereeler.com
The Hollywood Reporter
The Hollywood Reporter is the definitive interpretive voice of the entertainment industry. Informing, engaging and empowering content is delivered across a multimedia platform that includes: a weekly magazine, bi-monthly special reports, quarterly glossies, a Website, a daily news PDF, iPad app and events. The Hollywood Reporter is read by the most powerful people in the entertainment industry and the most influential consumers who follow it – those who shape desire, set trends and ultimately drive culture – providing an unmatched level of access and influence. www.hollywoodreporter.com
Variety
Recognized and respected through out the world of show business, Variety is the premier source of entertainment news. Since 1905, the most influential leaders in the industry have turned to Variety for timely, credible and straight forward news and analysis - information vital to their professions. www.variety.com
Venues Today is the world's leading trade magazine for venue professionals. We cover the news behind the headlines with an emphasis on the business side of music, festivals, sports, convention centers, family shows and fairs. Each year, we publish 12 monthly magazines, 39 electronic VT Pulse newsletter and two venue directories. We also co-promote the annual Sport, Entertainment and Venues Tomorrow conference in conjunction with the University of South Carolina, Columbia. For more information, visit www.venuestoday.com.
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