2:15 PM - 3:30 PM
Track II:
Movies and TV for Mobile - Original Entertainment & Information Programming Jumpstarts the Revolution
In this session, we will approach the question of original entertainment, from the TV and film industries, to the mobile consumer. Will anyone be able to remember a day when they couldn’t watch a football game on their mobile device – or watch the news? Want to check out a movie? Why not tune in via a mobile device while you’re waiting on line at the airport? Why not watch The Apprentice in the car on the mobile? Seems logical. In fact, seems like an idea that should have always been around. While that’s the way we may look back on it five years from today, but today we are proud to bring together a group of executives from content and mobile companies who are now making this idea possible. Movies and TV content specifically for the mobile user, it here, we’ve got it and in this session we’re going to talk about it.
Ross Levinsohn, Senior Vice President & General Manager – Fox Sports Interactive Media
Dr. Phillip Alvelda, Chairman & CEO, Co-Founder, Idetic, Inc. MobiTV
Greg Clayman, V.P. Wireless Strategies and Operations, MTV Networks
Keith Hindle, VP Integrated Marketing and Interactivity, FremantleMedia North America (American Idol)
Vladimir Edelman, Senior Director, ESPN Wireless
L.M. Kit Carson, Film Producer, Writer (Paris, Texas), co-founder, TheWirelessStudio Moderator
Dr. Phillip Alvelda - Chairman and CEO, Idetic: Dr. Alvelda is the CEO, Chairman, and cofounder of Idetic, Inc., Previously, Dr. Alvelda was the founding CEO and CTO of The MicroDisplay Corporation, a manufacturer of ultra-high resolution miniature displays for portable systems and low cost HDTVs. Prior to MicroDisplay, Dr. Alvelda was a developer of spacecraft hardware and software systems for image processing and data compression at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Dr. Alvelda holds a Bachelor's degree in Physics from Cornell University and received his Masters and PhD degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Keith Hindle, Vice President Integrated Marketing and Interactive,
FremantleMedia North America: FremantleMedia is the world’s largest television production company with over 200 original productions on air in over 40 countries. It is the TV content division of the Bertelsmann media corporation and part of the RTL Group, Europe’s largest broadcaster. Keith oversees the interactive and show integration activities of Fremantle in the US, including brands such as American Idol and The Price is Right. He previously worked for Fremantle in London and Germany where he managed international M&A, and prior to this worked for Time Warner, Unilever and Shell Oil. Keith holds an honors degree in business and a post-graduate finance qualification (CIMA). He is a former Scottish junior chess champion, is married and lives in New York City, and is aged 33.Ross Levinsohn, Senior Vice President & General Manager – Fox Spo
rts Interactive Media: As Senior Vice President and General Manager, Ross Levinsohn is responsible for the overall Interactive Media businesses of for FOX SPORTS including internet, wireless, broadband and interactive television. In this role, he oversees the interactive presence and opportunities for Fox Sports, Fox Sports Net and Fox Sports World and Fuel, the new extreme sports and lifestyle channel. His responsibilities include oversight of all aspects of the interactive businesses and interaction between all four broadcast and cable networks within the Fox Sports Group. Prior to joining Fox, Levinsohn served as Vice President and Executive Producer of the AltaVista Network. In this role, he was responsible for the overall development and implementation of the AltaVista Network, which includes all search, directory and content areas within the site. He joined the company in April, 1999 as Vice President and General Manager, New Media, where he oversaw the development and launch of AltaVista LIVE!, the personalized portal content offering from AltaVista, which launched in October, 1999. Previously, Levinsohn served as Vice President, Programming and Executive Producer of CBS Sportsline, where he oversaw all content and development for the top rated sports site. As one of the first employees at the internet start up, Levinsohn helped craft the overall online strategy for the company, and managed the day to day programming and content execution for the web site and its related production relationships with AOL, PGA Tour.com, Michael Jordan.com; and, SanFrancisco49ers.com. He also created and served as Executive Producer for the syndicated weekly television program "Football Playbook" starring former NFL coaches Marv Levy and Sam Wyche. Prior to joining CBS Sportsline, Levinsohn was Director of Production and Marketing Enterprises for HBO. In that role, he developed television programming, and licensing, merchandising and new media opportunities for the world’s largest Pay-TV network. Levinsohn spent three years at ProServ, Inc., a leading sports marketing and management company, where he represented a variety of athletes and developed marketing and sponsorship programs. He began his career at Saatchi and Saatchi in New York, and worked at the sports public relations firm Lapin and Rose, where he oversee marketing and publicity for a variety of sports clients including Top Rank Boxing, Showtime and the MLB Old Timers Baseball Series. Levinsohn is an advisory board member for Winmec, the Wireless Internet for the Mobile Enterprise Consortium and Convizion, a privately funded digital rights management company. He is also a former board member of the Florida Make-A-Wish Foundation. In 1995, while at HBO, GQ Magazine named him one of the "40 under 40" people to watch in the sports business.L.M. Kit Carson – Mr. Carson is an award-winning screenwriter/actor/producer and director working both Independent and with Hollywood Studios. He’s a well-known writer/producer in development/production on projects at Disney, Paramount, Columbia, and UA. Mr. Carson started in documentaries (in college he was an editor on the pioneer cinema-verite team of Richard Leacock and D.A. Pennebaker). His first film was a breakthrough mock-documentary, David Holzman’s Diary – which won film festivals and was selected for the archives of The U.S. Library of Congress Collection – as one of two hundred "American Film Treasures." His directed-documentaries include American Dreamer (movie-icon Dennis Hopper); currently Remember Tomorrow (visions of the future). Mr. Carson has written for ESQUIRE, ROLLING STONE, VARIETY, TEXAS MONTHLY and GQ. His journalism is anthologized in several books on American Culture; he’s in current editions of Who’s Who in US Writers, Editors & Poets. He’s published screenplays for David Holzman’s Diary and Paris, Texas. Mr. Carson is a jury-member (Sundance, Mannheim) for the international Motion Picture Arts Industry. One of the original fellows at the launch of The Sundance Institute, Mr. Carson remains actively involved with the Institute’s Writing Workshops. He’s a Founding Board Member of the Nantucket ScreenWriters Colony; an Advisor to the international eQuinoxe Writers Labs. Mr. Carson was a Film Lecturer at the Smithsonian Institution, Harvard University; was honored by the University of Dallas as Distinguished Lecturer in the Arts; and taught in the Film Division at Columbia University. He’s served as the Film Grant Advisor for The Texas Commission on the Arts and Humanities; nominator for The Rockefeller Foundation /NVR Grants; and received several grants from The National Endowment for The Arts. Mr. Carson has been awarded a prestigious MacDowell Colony Fellowship. As a producer, Mr. Carson’s been instrumental in discovering and bringing notable new filmmakers (actors, writers, directors such as Wes Anderson, Owen Wilson, Guillermo del Toro) into the production and distribution of their first features. ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY magazine profiled Mr. Carson as "The Big Brother of Independent Film"; The New York Times described him as "semi-legendary". Some of Mr. Carson’s movies: David Holzman’s Diary (actor/co-screenwriter); Breathless (screenwriter); Paris, Texas (adaptation); Bottle Rocket (co-producer); Running On Empty (actor); CQ (actor). Some awards: Mannheim Film Festival (GRAND PRIZE) David Holzman’s Diary; Cannes Film Festival (PALM D’OR) Paris, Texas; ACE/EMMY Award "Why Are You Here?; Sundance Film Festival (TRIPLE AWARDS) Hurricane Streets.