Click on the Video Below and Sample a Session from a previous Digital Hollywood event. For Additional Video Sessions, Click Here Digital Hollywood, May 4-7, 2009 Tuesday, May 5th Special Session Panel 3: Presented by the Writers Guild of America 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM Digitally Enabled Storytelling: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Producing outside of the Space/Time continuum Jacob Rosenberg, CTO Bandito Brothers Laura Nix, Director/Producer, Felt Films John Hamburg, Writer/Director, I Love You Man & Along Came Polly Adam Drucker, Casting Producer, A&E’s Intervention, Amazing Race Scott B, Director / Cinematographer, Vortex, LA Coroner Eva Orner, Academy Award winning producer, Taxi to the Dark Side Jeffrey Tuchman, Emmy & Peabody Award winning filmmaker, Moderator Laura Nix recently produced the doc festival hit THE YES MEN FIX THE WORLD. Previously she co-produced the doc feature THE TAILENDERS, and wrote and directed the award-winning narrative feature THE POLITICS OF FUR. In 2000, Laura co-founded Automat Pictures, where she produced, directed, and/or executive produced, over 100 presentations. Her work has been shown on HBO, IFC, and the History Channel, in addition to being distributed on DVD internationally. Laura also co-directed an episode of the HBO documentary series “Real Sex,” and Associate Produced the feature documentary THE CELLULOID CLOSET. Jacob Rosenberg, CTO Bandito Brothers: Jacob Rosenberg was born and raised in the heart of Silicon Valley. He is a digital technology expert, author and filmmaker. For over a decade, Rosenberg has worked extensively as a senior consultant to Adobe Systems Inc., on Adobe's digital video software applications. Jacob developed his passion for video and film as a skateboarder in the early 1990_s, making two of the most acclaimed skateboard videos for the company Plan B. Upon graduating from Emerson College, his thesis film was released on DVD and he promptly began directing music videos, commercials and short films. Rosenberg connected with Mike McCoy and Scott Waugh of Bandito Brothers when he served as the Online Editor and Digital Intermediate Supervisor for "Dust to Glory." Jacob has contributed his technical knowledge to a number of feature film projects, including "Superman Returns, Martin Scorsese's Rolling Stones documentary, "Shine a Light," James Cameron's "Avatar," Chris Eska's award winning film, "August Evening," and a number of others. Most recently Mr. Rosenberg has been pushing forward bleeding edge workflows with the Canon 5D Mark 2 and directing a documentary on the skateboarder Danny Way. Adam Drucker casts compelling “real people,” actors and outstanding talent/experts for television series and new media. He was the original casting producer on A&E's award-winning docu-series INTERVENTION and created the show's delicate process for finding the people struggling with addiction. He was a director of broadcast talent development at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, worked for several seasons on the casting teams of CBS’ SURVIVOR and the Emmy Award-winning THE AMAZING RACE and has worked as a casting producer for shows on HBO, E!, Lifetime, Bravo and NBC. Most recently, he found the the NYC high school students at the heart of Bravo’s upcoming docu-soap NYC PREP (premiering in June). He is currently casting the Showtime docu-series WAY OUT, from the Executive Producer of INTERVENTION, which profiles gays and lesbians coming out to important people in their lives. Scott B: Peabody Award winning filmmaker Scott B began by creating a series of groundbreaking films in Super 8 and 16mm. These acclaimed movies are recognized as seminal to New York’s independent film movement and have been honored in numerous international film festivals and by retrospectives at the Whitney Museum and the Museum of Modern Art. He has executive produced, directed and photographed numerous documentaries and films for National Geographic, Discovery, History, Lifetime, TLC and other channels. He is co-owner of Antenna Films. John Hamburg: Most recently, Hamburg co-wrote, produced and directed the comedy “I Love You, Man” for Dreamworks/Paramount Pictures. Starring Paul Rudd and Jason Segel, “I Love You, Man” has garnered rave reviews and strong box office since it was released on March 20th, 2009. John co-wrote the screenplays for the popular comedies “Meet the Parents” starring frequent collaborator Ben Stiller, Robert De Niro, Blythe Danner and Owen Wilson, and “Zoolander” starring Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson. Hamburg also directed several episodes of Judd Apatow’s critically acclaimed television series “Undeclared.” Hamburg also wrote and directed the hit comedy “Along Came Polly” starring Ben Stiller, Jennifer Aniston, Alec Baldwin and Philip Seymour Hoffman, and co-wrote the successful sequel “Meet the Fockers” starring Ben Stiller, Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman and Barbara Streisand, both for Universal Pictures. EVA ORNER is an Academy Award winning Australian producer based in the US Since relocating from Melbourne to NY in 2004, Eva spent two years producing documentaries with Academy Award winning director Alex Gibney. Eva produced “Taxi to the Dark Side” winner of best feature documentary at the 2008 Academy Awards, A Peabody Award and winner of best documentary at Tribeca, Chicago, Newport and Ojai Film Festivals. “Taxi to the Dark Side” was also nominated for best documentary at the Gotham and IDA awards, was released in the US theatrically by Think Film and premiered Sept 29, 2008 on HBO. Other recent credits include producing the feature documentary “Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr Hunter S Thompson,” which premiered in competition at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2008. “Gonzo” screened at SXSW Film Festival, was in competition at Full Frame, was the closing night film at the San Francisco Film Festival and opened theatrically across the US July 4th, 2008, distributed by Magnolia. Jeffrey Tuchman is an Emmy and Peabody award-winning documentary producer, director, writer and teacher with over 30 documentary titles to his name, Jeffrey’s most recent film VOICES OF CIVIL RIGHTS, a one-hour oral-history project on the Civil Rights Movement, won him a Peabody and an Emmy. In 2006, Jeffrey made a series of true-crime docs set in New Orleans’ French Quarter for Court TV; and his award-winning four-part series on the history of medicine, MAVERICKS, MIRACLES & MEDICINE, premiered on the History Channel in 2003. Jeffrey has helmed more than a dozen investigative, story-driven documentaries, looking at the HMO crisis, heroin addiction among young women, as well as the award-winning RAILROADED IN TEXAS, a groundbreaking film on the civil-liberties debacle in Tulia, Texas (with producer Gordon Platt) and maybe most notably, he directed THE MAN FROM HOPE, the acclaimed Bill Clinton biography shown at the 1992 democratic convention. Currently, Jeffrey is directing a documentary series pilot for Showtime, as well as several documentary features including VEILED HUMOR, a film about Muslim stand-up comic Shazia Mirza, and TESTIMONY, a film about his father’s return to Germany to testify in a war-crimes trial against the Nazi who murdered his mother.