About this Advisor Studio
Advisor Studio sessions feature intimate, moderated conversations with Sundance Advisors who are working artists and media industry professionals that contribute their expertise to the Collab community via courses, classes, office hours and events. In the Studio events, Advisors share field experiences and insights into their specific areas of craft, including writing, directing and producing for TV and film.
Join us for our first Advisor Q&A Live webinar with independent film producer Alix Madigan. This intimate conversation will explore how a film gets made through examining Alix's role as the producer of the Academy Award nominated film, Winter's Bone. Learn about the overall responsibilities of a film producer, the skills needed to be successful in the business, and the creative and tactical decisions she made as the film's producer from pre-production to distribution. Through the lens of Winter's Bone, we'll delve into how to find and develop the right project for you, identify your key collaborators, source financing, approach challenges during production, and how the producing team built the film's marketing plan and its ultimate road to the Sundance Film Festival and the Oscar stage.
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Alix Madigan
Producer
Alix produced WINTER’S BONE, directed by Debra Granik and starring Jennifer Lawrence, which was the winner of The Grand Jury Prize for best dramatic feature at the Sundance Film Festival in 2010. The film also received four Academy Award nominations, including best picture, and won The Gotham Award for Best Picture and two Independent Spirit Awards. Alix was a staff producer for Anonymous Content and has worked at various companies including Propaganda Films and Avenue Entertainment. She serves on the board of Film Independent and is a member of AMPAS.
Alix’s credits include THE LIE directed by Veena Sud, 1982 directed by Oualid Mouaness, L.A. TIMES, which premiered in Sundance NEXT in 2017, LAGGIES, starring Keira Knightley and directed by Lynn Shelton and WHITEBIRD IN A BLIZZARD, starring Shailene Woodley and directed by Gregg Araki, both of which premiered at Sundance in 2014 and were released in 2014. She has served in various producing capacities on films including MAY IN THE SUMMER, directed by Cherien Dabis, SMILEY FACE, directed by Gregg Araki, MARRIED LIFE, directed by Ira Sachs, CLEANER, directed by Renny Harlin, Neil LaBute’s YOUR FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS and GIRL MOST LIKELY directed by Shari Berman and Bob Pulcini.
Alix’s first produced movie was SUNDAY, directed by Jonathan Nossiter, which won The Grand Jury Prize for best dramatic feature and the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award in the 1997 Sundance Film Festival.
Alix was a staff producer for Anonymous Content and has worked at various companies including Propaganda Films and Avenue Entertainment. She serves on the board of Film Independent and is a member of AMPAS.