A successful producer knows how to budget effectively. This is even more vital in short filmmaking where budgets are assembled and spent creatively and often on a bargaining basis. In an environment where no two projects are alike, the London Film Academy brings together a line-up of filmmakers behind some of the most successful shorts of recent times and – made on budgets ranging from micro to macro – and asks them just how they got away with it.

Speakers include: Alex Boden (Pistashio Pictures, with credits including Inglorious Basterds), Gavin Humphries (Quark Films, and whose short The Curse was in Cannes in 2012) and Christine Chueng (whose feature Lovelorn has screened at 29 festivals worldwide).