Golden Globe Winner Gareth Wiley to Speak at Masterclass at FEST-TG 2014, 6/24- 6/29

FEST is very proud to announce Golden Globe winner producer Gareth Wiley as a speaker at FEST - Training Ground 2014.

Gareth has been working as a film producer & executive producer for over a decade. Since 2004, he has produced independent feature films including four with Woody Allen. Having persuaded the New Yorker to move his 2004 movie to London the collaboration grew until in January 2009 he won a Best Picture Golden Globe for Woody's "Vicky Cristina Barcelona". This was Gareth's second Golden Globe nomination in four years, having been previously nominated in 2006 for his first collaboration with Woody Allen, "Match Point".

In 2013, Gareth launched a new online film finance tool, www.screenadvantage.com. This online application makes all Gareth's proprietary film finance tools available to the industry as a whole and has been widely praised. Users now include Oscar & Golden Globe winning producers and film students alike. Affordable and sophisticated, but easy to use, Screen Advantage allows producers to present professional finance plans and allows financiers to understand at a glance the structure being proposed.

At TG 2014 Gareth Wiley will be hosting a masterclass on film production and financing, explaining the new tools available to producers, which are being used from student films to Oscar Winning productions. These tools are designed to help producers (who are usually much more from a creative environment) organize and present their finance plans in a way financiers can understand. In these days when raising money for films is harder than ever, this is becoming a more and more important skill.

Gareth will also be on the board of producers in FEST - Pitching Forum.

To register visit our website www.fest.pt.

FEST - Training Ground is a place where upcoming film makers from all over the world gather in one week, to attend a deluxe training event from workshops to master classes, lectured by industry top experts with recognized achievements. TRAINING GROUND, is now one of the biggest learning forum in the world in the area of filmmaking, in number of participants and number of worldwide recognized experts. The event will be between the 24th and the 29th of June in Espinho, Portugal, 15 minutes south of Porto in the sea-coast line. A tourism orientated city and one of the summer hotspots of Portugal.

The fee for one week of the world´s best film training activities is only 59 Euros without accommodation or from 89 Euros with accommodation, so be sure to grab your place fast the spaces are limited!

To register visit our website on this link: http://fest.pt/?page_id=1471&lang=en

FEST - Training Ground will have more than 25 Training activities lectured industry top experts, in the past it has brought names such as MELISSA LEO Oscar Winning Actress (The Fighter, Frozen River, Oblivion) PETER WEBBER (Girl With the Pearl Hearing, Hannibal Rising) Oscar Nominated Cinematographer CHRISTIAN BERGER (The White Ribbon, The Piano Teacher) Oscar Nominated Editor TARIQ ANWAR (American Beauty, The King's Speech) FERNANDO TRUEBA, TOM STERN Cinematographer of Films such as Gran Torino, Million Dollar Baby, The Hunger Games, Oscar winner Editor MARTIN WALSH, LAURENCE BENNETT production designer of films such as Crash and The Artist, 3 times Oscar Winner David Macmillan, and many more, detailed information on www.fest.pt

Apart from GARETH WILEY, FEST has also confirmed PETER TAYLOR Camera Operator of the year (Gravity) Eugenio Caballero Oscar Winner Production Designer, Justine Seymour Costume Designer, TIM CORRIE Deputy Director of BAFTA and Film Agent and advisor. Cannes Winner and Oscar Nominee SCANDAR COPTI, William Brookfield Director and Scriptwritter, and GUILLERMO GARCIA RAMOS Spanish Filmmaker and a well known face of prevoius edition of FEST-TG, more names to follow.