Directing Feature Films
Martha Coolidge, Material Girls, The Prince & Me, Rambling Rose
Betty Thomas, John Tucker Must die, Private Parts, Doctor Dolittle, 28 Days
Producing Television & Film
Diane English, Creator of Murphy Brown
Ilene Kahn Power, Kahn Power Pictures, Elvis, Gia, Traffic
Vibeke Windeloev, Washington, Dogville, Dancer in the Dark
Guest Panelist
Lucy Lawless, Zena
Episodic TV
Julia Franz, Executive Vice President, Touchstone TV
Odetta Watkins, Vice President, Warner Bros Television
Chris Selak, Senior Vice President, John Wells Productions
Lillah McCarthy, Series Consultant, TNT
Kelly Goode, Vice President, Series, Lifetime TV
Kelly Edwards, Producer, Drama Series, UPN
Samie Falvey, Vice President, comedy Development, FOX TV
Kelly Goode, Vice President, Series, Lifetime TV
Nuts and Bolts of Post-Production:
Anne V. Coates, Academy Award Winning Editor Taking Lives, Unfaithful, Out of Sight, Erin Brockovich, Lawrence of Arabia,
Rebekah Rudd, Sr. VP Post Production, Spyglass Entertainment
Producing Television & Film:
Barbara Boyle, Producer Phenomenon, Instinct, Bottle Rocket
Never Dine Alone – How to Network Effectively with Keith Ferrazzi, Author of Never Dine Alone
Pitching: How to Sell Your TV or Film Project to Hollywood
Pat Quinn, Literary Agent, Innovative Artists and Barbara Rubin Esq., Entertainment Lawyer, Law Offices of Barbara Rubin.
International & Domestic Distribution for Film & Television
Michael Werner, Chairman, Fortissimo Films, Hong Kong
Bobby Myers, President, Myers Film Entertainment, Rep for Roadshow, Australia
Pamela Pickering, Dino DeLaurentis Productions, former Chairman of AFMA.
Marion Edwards, Vice President, International TV, Fox Television
Paula Silver, President, Beyond the Box
Writing for Film and Television:
Jack Amiel, Writer, Raising Helen, The Prince and Me
CeCe Koplin, Ghost Writer
Programming Film Festivals:
Geoffrey Gilmore, Sundance Film Festival,
Eleonora Granata, Venice Film Festival,
Christian Gaines, AFI Film Festival,
Craig Emanuel, Partner, Loeb & Loeb
Plus representation from Toronto and Cannes Film Festivals.
Intellectual Property/Copyright
Mark Litwak, Mark Litwak & Associates
Steven Rubenstein, Rubenstein Law Offices
Roadmap for Independent Productions
Barbara Hall, Independent Producer, Good Night & Good Luck, Ray, I am Sam
Marion Speigelmen, Senior VP Business Affairs, Film Finances Inc.
Susan Muir, Vice President Production, Film Finances Inc.
Paula Schmit, Vice President, Film Finances Inc.
PR/Marketing
Joy Fehily, PMK/HBH
Producing Reality Television
Margie Friedman, VP of Development Kaos Entertainment
Cinematography
Pauline Heaton, Underwater cinematographer, After The Storm, Lake Placid, Dark Angel
Amy Vincent, Hustle & flow, Campus Confidential
Mairi Gunn, Gravity and Grace, Kubla Khan, Donuts for Breakfast
Visual Effects and the World of Tomorrow:
Jeff Okun, VP of VES Executive Committee Elizabethtown, Fantastic Four
Paul Lombardi, Man of the House, Soul Plane, Bad Santa
Annie Putnam, Looney Tunes, Doctor Dolittle
Karen Murphy, Vice President Visual Effects, Fox Studios
The Art of Creating and Editing Sound
Victoria Rose Sampson, Supervising Sound Editor
Solange Schwalbe, Supervising Sound Editor and Foley Supervisor
Bobbi Banks, President, Motion Pictures Sound Editors
Anne-Marie Slack, Owner, Widget Post Production Off the Lip, Baadassss!
Gay & Lesbian Programming
Paul Colichman, Chairman of Regent Entertainment and Founder & CEO of here!
Eileen Opatut, SVP, Original Programming, Logo
Ilene Chaiken, Producer The L Word
Post-Production
Paul Hagger, Senior VP of Post Production, Paramount
Anne V. Coates, Academy Award Winning Editor Taking Lives, Unfaithful, Our of Sight, Erin Brockovich, Lawrence of Arabia, Claire O’Brien, Collateral
Robyn-Alain Feldman, Retirement, The Virgin of Juarez
Agents and Managers-Navigating the System
Marion Rosenberg, The Marion Rosenberg Office
Iris Grossman, Agent ICM
Marti Blumenthal, Partner and co-owner of Ampersand Management Group, Nicole David, Agent
Film with a Social Conscience
Mark Harris, Executive Producer Crash
Co-Productions, Domestic and International
Rebecca Segal, Senior Vice President Sky Networks
Susan Williams, Loeb & Loeb
Kris Sofley, Editorial Director, C21 Media
The Hollywood Gossip Machine
James Ulmer, Journalist, Premiere Magazine, BBC.Creator of “The Ulmer Scale”.
A representative from People Magazine
Financing Films
Patty Mayer, Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp
Jessica Algazi, HighView Media
Jenny Dongo Sampson, Union Bank
John Zabel, Media Finance Structures
Ann-Kristin Westerberg, Senior VP, International Division, A.B. Svensk
Legacy Film Archives/Film Archives/Preservation
Ilene Kahn Power, Producer, Kahn Power Pictures. Elvis, Traffic, Gia Dorothea Petrie, Producer, The Face on The Milk Carton, The Song of the Lark Jennifer Wollan, Women’s Preservation Fund.
Marcie Setlow, Setlow Media, Inc.
Sales Agents – International Sales
Mimi Tseng, Vice President, Summit Entertainment
Marcy Rubin, SVP, International Distribution
David Glasser, Vice President, Syndicate Films
Lew Horwitz, President, Horwitz Entertainment Financial Services, Inc.
Lisa Wilson, President, New Hyde International
Social Issue Filmmaking: Make a Profit and a Difference:
Ricky Strauss, President Participant Films, Truce, Goodnight and Goodluck Patricia Cardosa, Director Real Women Have Curves
Tax Incentives Film/TV International:
Stephen Saltzman, Partner, Loeb & Loeb
Women In Industry:
Martha Lauzen
Mette Knudsen
Location Focus- India:
Shonali Bose
