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For Additional Video Sessions, Click Here Digital Hollywood, May 4-7, 2009 Special Event Tuesday, May 5th Digital Hollywood Content Summit Location: Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel, Santa Monica Tuesday, May 5th 7:00 PM Keynote Conversation Michael Rymer, writer / producer / director, Battlestar Galactica, Queen of The Damned, In Too Deep One on One Conversation with: Seth Shapiro, Principal, New Amsterdam Media For Full Bio Information - Click here In Association with the Following Affiliated Organizations See Video of the Content Summit Sessions - click Here • AFI Digital Content Lab • Academy for Television Arts & Sciences • International Documentary Association • International Academy of Web Television • ASIFA Hollywood: The International Animated Film Society • Writers Guild of America • KCET, a PBS Affiliate Summit Produced by: Gerber Rigler Producing and Executive Consulting for Digital Hollywood - Click Here Summit Pricing: $135 regular, $95 for Affiliate members (Tuesday, May 5th Only) - Also see Special Discount Rates: Click here To Register - Click Here Tuesday, May 5th Breakfast Presentation 7.30 AM – 8.45 AM Hosted by TBD Content Presentations: 8:00 AM – 8:45 AM The Best of the 1st Annual Streamy Awards Jamison Tilsner, Co-founder, The Streamy Awards Brady Brim-DeForest, Co-Founder, The Streamy Awards Presented by the International Academy of Web Television Brady Brim-DeForest is a serial entrepreneur and television producer with a deep background in production and distribution. He is co-founder of Tubefilter, The Web Television Company, and co-founder of the International Academy of Web Television. Tuesday, May 5th Special Session Panel I: 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM Content Labs: Innovation for the Cross-Platform Generation 4 Cutting Edge Case Studies. David Gale, EVP New Media, MTV Networks Danila Koverman, Director, HBOlab at HBO Alexis Rapo, Vice President, ABC Digital Media John Gilles, Vice President Media & Entertainment, Method Suzanne Stefanac, Director, AFI Digital Content Lab, Moderator Presented by the AFI Digital Content Lab For Session Information, Video of Session - Speaker Bios - Click Here Special Session Panel 2: 10:30 AM – 11:45 AM The Return of the Sponsor: Programming Brand Integration – Keeping production budgets afloat with the help of Corporate America. David Norton, VP Brand Integration, Ladder Up Media Mark Vega, Of Counsel, Luce Forward and Co-Founder, Omelet Josh Bycel, Co-Executive Producer, Psych (USA Network) Adam Armus, Executive Producer, Heroes (NBC) Daniel Harris, Chairman & CEO, MediaPass Brian Seth Hurst, CEO, The Opportunity Management Company, Moderator Presented by the Academy for Television Arts & Sciences For Session Information, Video of Session - Speaker Bios - Click Here Special Session Panel 3: 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 Presented by the Writers Guild of America For Session Information, Video of Session - Speaker Bios - Click Here Lunch Content Presentations: 1:15 PM – 1:45 PM The Best of the 1st Annual Streamy Awards Jamison Tilsner, Co-founder, The Streamy Awards Presented by the International Academy of Web Television Special Session Panel 4: 2:00 PM – 3:15 PM How to Grow your own Audience: Alternative Methods of Distribution and Marketing for Documentary Films Adam Chapnick, President, DocWorkers Scott Hamilton Kennedy, Writer/Director, The Garden Rick Allen, CEO, SnagFilms Peter Yared, CEO, iWidgets Steve Savage, Co-principal, New Video Slava Rubin, Co-founder, IndoeGoGo Amy Goldstein, The Hooping Life Eddie Schmidt, President of the board, IDA, Moderator Presented by the International Documentary Association For Session Information, Video of Session - Speaker Bios - Click Here Special Session Panel 5: 3:30 PM – 4:45 PM Zack, Boom, Kapow! – The Unrestrained Innovator: How Animation conquers Unimagined Realities through Art, Writing and Technology. Dave Vamos, Founder, Six Point Harness Studios Aaron Simpson, Founder, Cold Hard Flash, Lineboil.com Jorge Gutierrez, Creator “El Tigre,” Nickelodeon John Andrews, SVP, Klasky Csupo, ka-chew! Antran Manoogian, President, ASIFA-Hollywood Patric M. Verrone, President, WGAW Glasgow Phillips, Writer, South Park, Kung Fu Panda, Moderator Presented by The International Animated Film Society, ASIFA-Hollywood For Session Information, Video of Session - Speaker Bios - Click Here Special Session Panel 6: 5:00 PM – 6:15 PM The Art of the Cause: Plains, Grains and Automobiles – Filmmaking through Social Networking Tools Micki Krimmel, Founder Sugar Packet, Inc, Mickipedia.com Robert Bahar, Filmmaker, Made in LA Melissa Fitzgerald, Actor & Filmaker, The West Wing, Voices of Uganda Marc Morgenstern, Executive Director, Declare Yourself Juan Devis, Director of Production, KCET New Media Charles Annenberg Weingarten, Founder, Explore.org Brian Sirgutz, President, Causecast , Moderator For Session Information, Video of Session - Speaker Bios - Click Here Tuesday, May 5th 7:00 PM Keynote Conversation Michael Rymer, writer / producer / director, Battlestar Galactica, Queen of The Damned, In Too Deep One on One Conversation with: Seth Shapiro, Principal, New Amsterdam Media For Full Bio Information - Video of Session - Click here The Art of re-inventing a TV classic for multi-platform audiences by turning it into a top-notch drama-series set in space: Battlestar Galactica. Battlestar Galactica mastered all forms of storytelling on traditional and emerging platforms - both the show and its online incarnation will remain a milestone in our industry for years to come. The search for powerful metaphysical truth on mainstream television has contributed to our collective human experience in ways we can only begin to anticipate. Michael Rymer, shaped BSG from the start: He directed the mini-series and a total of 22 episodes, produced 40 episodes of the SciFi-Channel series that would become a television phenomenon. Michael is also the award-winning writer and director of several successful motion pictures, among them Queen of the Damned, Haunted, Perfume and In To Deep, as well as the upcoming The Witchblade. 9:00 PM “Burma VJ” - Free Preview Screening Location: Ocean Screening Room, 1401 Ocean Avenue (3 blocks from Loews at Ocean Ave. & Santa Monica Blvd.). Directed by Anders Ostergaard. 84 minutes unrated. Anders Østergaard’s award-winning documentary takes a rare inside look into the 2007 uprising in Myanmar through the cameras of the independent journalist group, Democratic Voice of Burma. Distributed by Oscilloscope Laboratories in Association with HBO Documentary Films. Presented by the International Documentary Association. Return to Digital Hollywood Agenda - Click Here