Sunday, October 28, 2 pm - DGA Theatre 3
presented by Water's Edge Communications
Many of us have the experience of being relentlessly focused on writing the script, raising the money, finding the cast, hiring the crew and, by sheer will power, making our vision concrete, ready for audiences to embrace. .. only to wake up exhausted with no real plan about how to get your product into the market place. If you build it, will they come... short of hanging a sheet in the garage?
Even experienced filmmakers have little working knowledge of the ins and outs (or costs) of finding the right partners to carry your vision (and your investors gamble) into commercial waters.
Our panel will help chart those waters with hard won experience and expertise, giving everyone in attendance extra insight to successfully complete the harrowing path to a paying audience. So you can do it all again!
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Ricki G. Maslar, Indpendent Producer
Ricki is a successful casting director, manager, and producer with over thirty years of experience in the entertainment industry. As a casting director, Maslar has had the opportunity to work on a myriad of studio and independent features, including Twister, Tuskegee Airmen, Brother to Brother, and Dahmer.
Maslar represented actors under her own management company called RGM Entertainment. It was a natural role for Maslar, who has acted as manager, mentor, watchdog and creative partner. RGM Entertainment evolved into a production company with her business partner, Jason Connery. In 2005, Maslar and Connery created Unconditional Entertainment; the company is currently in development with several film and television projects, and just completed the independent feature film Pandemic.
Ricki is a respected entertainment executive, dedicated mother, and she looks forward to making films that change lives and make a difference in the world. |
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Ryan Provencher, Miramax Films
Ryan graduated from the University of Miami and made a beeline to Miramax Films. He's been promoted 5 times in the 6 and a half years he's been there, moving through marketing, business and legal affairs, and distribution, to his current position as Manager of Exhibitor Relations, working with theaters across the United States to promote all of Miramax's upcoming films. |
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Elsa Ramo, Entertainment Attorney/Producer
Ms. Ramo is an entertainment attorney, representing many corporate clients as well as individual writers, directors, and producers in the entertainment industry. Elsa graduated from University of San Diego School of Law, and moved into entertainment law with Davis Dixon Kirby LLP. She now has established her presence in her law firm in Beverly Hills. She continues to remain Of Counsel at her previous law firm and with MindFusion.
Her specialties span the spectrum of entertainment legal needs: Corporate/Entity Representation, Contract Negotiation, Review and Drafting, Producer/Writer Representative Services, Trademark and Copyright filing and litigation, and Corporate Formations, Acquisition, and Mergers. The focus of her practice is to be a legal resource to film financiers, producers and other creative individuals in the industry.
Her law firm has two full time attorneys and a full staff who have provided production legal services to over 30 television, feature film, short film and documentary productions. Some of which include: LOADED starring Jesse Metcalfe; Jamie Kennedy's documentaries UNWASHED (featured on Comedy Central) and HECKLER (which recently premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival); SUFFERING FOOLS starring Alan Cumming, Dave Boreanaz and Anne Heche; BORDER, a Feature Documentary theatrically released this year; Sony Picture’s CHASING GHOSTS, with Michael Madsen and Gary Busey; GENE GENERATION starring Bai Ling; CREEP SHOW 3; televisions series THE DL CHRONICLES; and THE BRIDGE TO NOWHERE directed by Blair Underwood.
Additionally, Elsa Ramo has produced GHOST GAME and CULT and was an associate producer for THE LAST SENTINEL and co-produced the film A WOMAN CALLED JOB currently in post-production. Outside of membership in the four Bar Associations (California, American, Beverly Hills, & Los Angeles), Elsa is also a member of Film Independent, Women in Film, California Lawyers for the Arts and is the founder of PEFA (an organization for female attorneys in the entertainment industry. She has also been a panel speaker at Boston University School of Law, and the San Diego Film Festival, University of Southern California.
More information about Elsa Ramo can be found on her company website: www.entertainmentattorney.biz. |
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