Learn how to license music for your film with The Rights Workshop's Brooke Wentz!

Overview

Navigating music rights can feel like a daunting maze, for emerging and experienced filmmakers alike. Join us for an illuminating workshop with award-winning Music Supervisor Brooke Wentz of The Rights Workshop and Seven Seas Music, where you’ll learn the ins and outs of licensing music for your narrative or documentary film.

This seminar dives into key topics like copyright clearance, synchronization and master use licensing, music supervision, leveraging public domain music, and preparing cue sheets. Designed with independent filmmakers in mind, Brooke will share practical insights into the challenges and realities of working with music publishers and labels—along with how to avoid the dreaded cease-and-desist letter.

Whether you're looking to elevate your film’s soundtrack or demystify music licensing, this is your chance to gain expert guidance in a filmmaker-focused environment.

Gotham Members may attend this workshop for free. Log-in to your account and RSVP from your Member Dashboard.

Instructors

Brooke Wentz

The Rights Workshop and Seven Seas Music - Music Supervisor and Founder

Award-winning music supervisor Brooke Wentz is the founder of The Rights Workshop, a leading music supervision and licensing firm, and Seven Seas Music, a curated music discovery platform. She has worked on numerous documentary and independent films including 32 Sounds, Meet the Patels, Dolores, Last Chance U, Glen Campbell: I’ll Be Me, Bully, Last Stop in Yuma County, Bill Cunningham New York and, most recently, Janis Ian: Breaking Silence.

As the former music director of ESPN, Brooke was pivotal in connecting musicians with directors and authored two books: Hey! That’s My Music: Music Supervision, Licensing and Content Acquisition and Music Rights Unveiled, and very recently Transfigured New York: Interviews with Experimental Artists and Musicians, 1980-1990. She is a Billboard Award-winning producer for one of the best-selling world music recordings and a former public radio host.