A panel of industry experts will provide insightful information and will be available for Q & A from attendees. Breakfast buffet included.
Moderator: Alan J Bailey. 35 year veteran in senior management for Paramount Pictures. Now independent producer with his Dynamic Media Pictures production and distribution label. CEO of Worldcast.TV, a developer of patented cost efficient digital content transmission systems to IPTV, mobile and wi-max and worldwide audiences. Professor at the Shanghai Film Art Academy, Shanghai, China. SVP and CFO of Hollywood Entertainment EDU Holding Inc., a provider of training and educational programs to Chinese film, tv and music graduates seeking further education in the US. Operating Partner, TransWorld Capital Group, a global financial and strategic advisory firm based in Pasadena, California ( with offices in Beijing and Shanghai) offering a full array of financial and management services worldwide. West Coast production consultant to Tax Credits, LLC ,a nationwide tax credit placement and monetization expert.

Distinguished Panelists:
Jeff Geoffrey: Co-Founder and CFO of Blue Rider Entertainment.

Blue Rider Entertainment is one of the most prolific and successful independent production and financing companies in the entertainment business, with more than 118 movies and TV projects to its credit since the Company was formed in 1991.During that time, with Blue Rider co-founder Walter Josten, Jeff Geoffrey has developed expertise in nearly every aspect of production and distribution, including US Theatrical Distribution, International Sales and Production Services. They have served in the roles of producers, executive producers and line producers. Since its inception, Blue Rider Finance has worked on the cutting edge of independent film financing, utilizing Pre-sales, Gap Financing, Tax Credits and other benefits to shoot pictures in nearly every region of the world.It has grown into the premier Bridge Financing resource for independent movies, providing more than $97 million in short-term funding to more than 100 films, with budgets ranging from $2 million to $42 million, representing an aggregate of $687 million in production.

Susan Wrenn: Leading media and marketing consultant.

Susan’s professional career began with The Entertainment Company, where she managed and negotiated some of the most valuable publishing catalogues in popular music and responsible for the company’s promotional interests by such talent as Barbara Streisand, Dolly Parton, The Bee Gees, Donna Summer, Dusty Springfield,becoming company Director and head of the company’s west coast operation. Susan joined Paramount Pictures in 1986, rising rapidly through the ranks to spend the majority of her twenty-year career at the studio as Sr. Vice President, Marketing, and Media Director for the film group. Leaving Paramount in 2006, Susan’s consulting projects have included feature films, documentaries, the successful launch of the Produced By Conference for the Producers Guild of America, co-producing the 75th anniversary television special for KTLA (“Planet L.A.”, which was nominated for a local Emmy), marketing the Third Screen Film Festival and many other entrepreneurial activities. She currently serves as Chief Marketing Officer for www.theStream.tv and Catch-22 Entertainment. Member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences since 1994; Instructor: Columbia College, Chicago; Guest Lecturer: USC (Peter Stark program), UCLA (Communications program).

Christine Peluso, Esq: Principal, Tax Credits, LLC

Christine has been with Tax Credits, LLC since inception in 1998,and directs the national development of the company’s Film Production Tax Credit business. Prior to joining Tax Credits, LLC, she worked for ten years with various public companies handling debt restructuring, SEC compliance and Investor Relations. In addition, she worked as a Financial Consultant with Solomon Smith Barney. Christine holds a BA in Economics from the University of Colorado in Boulder and a J.D. from Delaware Law School in Wilmington. She is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania at the State and Federal levels, as well as U.S. Tax Court.

Dama Claire: Production Executive, The Incentives Office

Dama is one of the foremost experts in governmental production incentives in the industry. She works closely with independent film producers, studios and lenders to help identify the best location and production incentive package to save money. She helped set up location-based finance for “Big Momma’s House 2” in Louisiana, “Dear John” in South Carolina, “Red Dawn” in Michigan, “The Private Lives of Pippa Lee” in Connecticut, ”Prison Break" in Illinois, “Legion” in New Mexico, and “The Conspirator” in Georgia. Dama recently co-produced "Betty Anne Waters", starring Hilary Swank, in Michigan. She also helped enhance film tax legislation in Alaska, Louisiana, Massachusetts and South Carolina. Dama began her entertainment career at Warner Bros. working with Malpaso Productions (Clint Eastwood), and has served as West Region Director of Entertainment Tax for Price Waterhouse, Vice President of Tax at Carolco Pictures and Twentieth Century Fox.
She is a member of the British Academy of Film and Television (BAFTA) and Women in Film.

Adrian Ward: SVP Entertainment, Sports & Media, National Bank of California, Entertainment, Sports & Media

Adrian joined the pioneering boutique lender The Lewis Horwitz Organization in 1991, where he was involved in the development and structuring of some of the first bank production loans based on international sales contracts. Initially Adrian was instrumental in the risk analysis that led to the first ever gap finance transactions and became one of the leading lenders within the company. In 1998 Adrian re-located to London, U.K. as European Representative specializing in packaging multi-party loan transactions involving many of the available European tax incentives. Returning to Los Angeles in 2005 as the Portfolio Manager for ICB Entertainment Finance, he was responsible for oversight of production loans with an aggregate value of approx. $200MM. In March 2007, Adrian joined IDB Bank and built a new entertainment lending division and following this, in April 2008, became the Senior Vice President of NBCal’s Entertainment, Sports & Media department.

Bill J. Gottlieb : CEO and Founder, Gorilla Pictures

Gorilla Pictures, a US based production and distribution company, was founded in 1999 by award-winning advertising & promotions leader, Bill J. Gottlieb. With a 25-year career in commercial writing and production, Bill’s client list includes: Warner Bros., The Walt Disney Company, ABC Cable Networks Group, NBC, Fox Television, and Carsey-Werner Company to name a few. Bill was the Executive Producer/Producer of the feature-length 3D animated movie, The Legend of Sasquatch, starring William Hurt (The Incredible Hulk) and John Rhys-Davies (The
Lord of the Rings trilogy). In addition, through his Gorilla Pictures label he has
produced “ The Last Sentinel “ starring Katee Sackhoff (Bionic Woman) and Don “The Dragon” Wilson (Batman Forever); “Soft Target” and “Sci-Fighter” which is
presently airing on the Starz Network Action Channel. In 2009, Bill Executive Produced an intense crime/thriller entitled “Charlie Valentine”and he currently has many films in development including the CGI animated 3-D movie, Alien Olympics, with story and characters by former Walt Disney Imagineer, Thomas Callicoat.

STEVEN FISHMAN: Head of Sales and Marketing, Media Services

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