Tuesday, October 2 10:45 AM - Noon Session A: Producing Films in a Global Environment – When Content & Image Supercede Cultural Boundaries & Institutions More than ever, film is proving itself to be an international language which crosses all cultures and barriers. In this session, we celebrate the power of film as global entertainment, as a universal voice understood and loved by all, as a medium which translates into all languages and brings divergent creative forces together before a world audience. Film is a completely international experience, from its development and financing to its production and distribution. The complexity of producing a film reaches into every phase of its lifecycle, making it more than ever, an internationally collaborative expression. In this session, we bring together the producers, the filmmakers who represent vast experience in their approaches to the filmmaking process, from financing to production and distribution. We are honored to have them join us. John Hyde, President & CEO, Film Roman Nadia Bronson, President, Nadia Bronson & Associates (formerly President, International Marketing, Universal Pictures Kathy Morgan, Chairman, Kathy Morgan International Larry Jackson, Distribution Head, Northern Arts Entertainment, Moderator Additional speakers to be announced John W. Hyde, President & CEO, Film Roman, With experience gained from various executive, financial and distribution posts as well as film and television production, John Hyde is ideally suited to lead Film Roman as President and CEO. He has successfully divided his time between production, distribution, management consulting and restructuring entertainment companies. Prior to joining Film Roman in 1999, Hyde was most recently the license holder for KADY-TV in Oxnard/Santa Barbara, which he also ran before selling to Baltimore Broadcasting. Before that he was chief executive officer at Crossroads V Communications and Starbound Records, companies that were an outgrowth of restructuring efforts following his sojourn as chairman and CEO of MCEG Sterling, a publically trade entertainment company which was part of a four-way merger between MCEG Sterling, Orion Pictures Corp., Actava Group and the telecommunications group of Metromedia International from 1992-1996. He also served as vice chairman and chief operating officer of Producers Sales Organization, one of the leading producers and international film distributors. As an executive and/or producer, Hyde has overseen the distribution of more than 50 feature films and production of 21 motion pictures, including “Short Circuit,” “Flight of the Navigator,” “Eight Million Ways to Die,” “UHF, The Never-ending Story,” “9 1/2 Weeks,” “The Clan of the Cave Bear” and the Award-winning “Das Boot.” Hyde’s television programming involvement includes Mighty Mouse and Homicide Larry Jackson, Distribution Head, Northern Arts Entertainment: Larry Jackson's distinguished production career includes: President of, Seventh Wave Productions (1996-2001) with clients including IBM New Media Division, FilmQuest.com, DataTreasury Corp., American Film Marketing Association, The Los Angeles Philharmonic, UCLA Department of Entertainment Studies, UC Northridge, New Zealand Film Commission and others. Mr. Jackson was previously Executive Vice-President, Acquisitions and Co-Productions, Miramax Films. As Executive Vice-President of Chicago Pacific Entertainment, he oversaw the independent feature film production company of Director Andrew Davis. From 1988 through 1990, Larry served as Vice President In Charge of Production at Orion Pictures Corporation where his projects included the Oscar-winning SILENCE OF THE LAMBS. He joined the Samuel Goldwyn Company in 1981, where as Senior Vice President of Production and Acquisitions through 1988, his projects included MYSTIC PIZZA, PRICK UP YOUR EARS, A PRAYER FOR THE DYING, HOLLYWOOD SHUFFLE, THREE MEN AND A CRADLE, THE CARE BEARS, SID AND NANCY, DANCE WITH A STRANGER, STRANGER THAN PARADISE, GREGORY'S GIRL, THE GIFT, BRING ON THE NIGHT, and others. Jackson began his career as Managing Director of the internationally noted three-screen art cinema entertainment complex, the Orson Welles Cinema Complex in Cambridge, Massachusetts.