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S A T U R D AY, O C T O B E R 8 , 2 0 1 6Hornbake Library Media Services • University of Maryland

College Park, MD

THE FUTURE

OF

2016FILM

LOCAL. GLOBAL.

Future of Film 2016 Conference is our annual platform to exchange ideas, re-think community and promote innovation in the film and digital media industry in Prince George’s County and the Washington/Baltimore region. Future of Film 2016 Conference theme is Local. Global. It was chosen to highlight Prince George’s County and the region as a microcosm of the world. The Conference will examine ways local filmmakers

are embracing digital media innovation to create archival productions, tackle global subjects and gain global audiences; the financial incentives and technical infrastructure needed to incubate and launch the next generation of film and digital media enterprises; nuts and bolts of working on local and global productions and what it takes to get projects funded.

Creative Edge Collaborative is a local arts & culture start-up based in the Gateway Arts District of Prince George’s County, MD. We are dedicated to bringing film and digital media innovation to 21st Century audiences. Through this work, we hope to enrich the educational, cultural and economic life of the county and beyond.

Creative Edge Collaborative Board of TrusteesTalaya Grimes, Board Chair; Craig Herndon, Treasurer; Carleton Jackson, UMD Libraries Liaison;Miriam Machado-Luces, Communication Advisor and Pierre Walcott, President and CEO

Creative Edge Collaborative Advisory CommitteeJay Elvove, Board Member of AFI and Docs in Progress; O. F. Makarah, Founder of the Heritage Film Festival and Co-Producer of the Prince George’s Memory Project and Matthew White, CEO/Producer, Sutton Hoo Studios and Co-Producer of the Prince George’s Memory Project.

Visit us at creativeedgepg.wordpress.com and email us at creativeedgepg@gmail.com

DAY AT A GLANCE

9:00am – 9:30am

Registration/Breakfast/Networking

9:30am – 9:45am

Welcome

MC Chris Haley, Director of Research for the Study of the Legacy of Slavery in Maryland and Co-Director of the Utopia Film Festival in Prince George's County

9:45am – 11:00am

Keynote: From Local Incubation to Global Co-Production with Matthew White, Managing Partner of Sutton Hoo Productions and the Co-Producer of the acclaimed documentary, “The Beatles, Eight Days A Week, the Touring Years.” This is a homegrown story now being told on a world-wide stage.

Moderator: Carleton Jackson, Head of Library Media Services, University of Maryland Libraries

11:15am – 12:30pm

Sharing the Vision: Big Picture & Economic Advocacy takes a closer look at the growth and economic impact of the film + digital media sector in the region and strategies for supporting film + digital media innovation in Prince George’s County.

Speakers: Rhonda Dallas, Executive Director, Prince George’s Arts & Humanities Council and Prince George’s Film Office; Jack Gerbes, Director, Maryland Film Office; David O’Ferrall, Business Agent, IATSE and Maryland Film Industry Coalition; Melissa Houghton, Executive Director, Women in Film in Video and Scott Peterson, Press Secretary and Deputy Communications Manager for Prince George’s County Office of the Executive

Moderator: Pierre Walcott, President/CEO, Creative Edge Collaborative

12:30pm – 1:30pm

Lunch/Networking

1:30pm – 2:45pm

Session A. Living the Creative Local digs into local productions, locations and getting gigs with an exciting group of panelists.

Speakers: Donna Foster-Dotson, Film Coordinator, Prince George’s Film Office; Shellee Haynesworth, Producer, Indigo Communications; Jeff Krulik, Director/Producer/Researcher; Joseph Martin, Location Manager and Tia Smith, Executive in Change of Production, TV One

Moderator: Erica Ginsberg, Executive Director, Docs in Progress

3:00pm – 4:15pm

Session B. Stay Local, Go Global features local film professionals who are developing global business relationships and are working on productions in Latin America, Africa and Asia.

Speakers: Chitra Jeyaram, Filmmaker (India/Global); Oliver Litondo, Actor/Journalist (Kenya) and Catherine Murphy, Tres Musas (Cuba/Latin America)

Moderator: Adrena Ifill, CEO of Ifill/DoubleBack Global Group (DC/Trinidad)

4:30pm – 6:00pm

Session C. Pitch Perfect is a rapid-fire filmmaker pitch with a chance at getting funded, receiving feedback and finding out where your project fits within the new film and media marketplace.

Pitchers: Tsedey Aragie, Erica Ginsberg, Antonio Hernandez, Miriam Machado-Luces, Robert Mac and Adesua Okosun

Producers: Monica Lee Bellais, Screenwriter/ Producer and Brian Harris, Green Dragon Entertainment

Moderator: Harold Jackson, CEO, American Filmmaker and Director

6:00pm – 8:00pm

Happy Hour with Music by DJ Vicunyah, Antonino Hernandez, Electric Llama

SPEAKERS

MONICA LEE BELLAIS is an award winning screenwriter/producer who blends experiences in Hollywood, Washington, DC and international markets. She is a Co-Executive Producer on the feature film WAKEFIELD and a producer on BENNIE’S starring Ed Asner, Joe Estevez and Cathy Moriarty. As an Executive Producer she managed nonfiction productions in the USA and United Arab Emirates for audiences in the Middle East, Europe, North Africa and Asia.

RHONDA DALLAS, Executive Director, Prince George’s Arts & Humanities Council and Prince George’s Film Office, is a visionary arts administrator, curator and creative entrepreneur. As Chair for two terms, she played a leading role in the re-organization, re-branding and legislative expansion of the Prince George’s Arts and Humanities Council (PGAHC). She continues to advance the services of PGAHC through strategic initiatives that bridge cultural diversity and innovation while promoting creative industry growth, smart partnerships, and national best practices in arts and economic development, arts in education, arts and health and arts and sustainability.

DONNA FOSTER-DOTSON is the Film Coordinator of the Prince George’s County Film Office. She is a multi-talented, Emmy and NAACP Image Awards winner with experience and expertise in all aspects of television and event productions management, planning and logistics, budgeting, directing, producing and writing. Donna Foster-Dotson brings a wealth of well-rounded knowledge to the Prince George’s County Film Office in order to assist you with your production requirements.

ERICA GINSBERG is the Executive Director of Docs In Progress, a nonprofit that provides professional development, feedback, and community to documentary filmmakers throughout the DC Metro area. She is herself a documentary filmmaker, currently co-producing/directing Creative Feds and The Sideman which both explore the hidden artistic lives of federal workers. She is also the Co-Host of The D-Word, a global, online community for documentary filmmakers.

JACK GERBES joined the Maryland Film Office as its location and project manager in 1992. He was appointed Director of the Film Office in 2002. The Maryland Film Office promotes the state to the film and television industry, and works with the productions as a location, logistical and informational resource while they film in Maryland. During the course of his career, Jack has worked with over 125 films or television series in Maryland. His credits include: “House of Cards”, “VEEP” “The Wire”, “ Homicide: Life on the Street”, “Ladder 49”, “Wedding Crashers”, “Enemy of the State”, “12 Monkeys”,“Runaway Bride”, “Step Up” and “Step Up 2”, “Live Free or Die Hard” and “The Blair Witch Project.”

CHRIS HALEY is the Director of Research for the Study of the Legacy of Slavery in Maryland and Co-Director of the Utopia Film Festival in Prince George’s County. Additionally, he has served on the following boards: Kunta Kinte-Alex Haley Foundation, Historic London Town Foundation, Jake Savage Foundation and the Annapolis Arts Alliance Foundation. His script for the 2004 The RECONCILIATION WALK for SLAVERY and PENITENCE held in Annapolis on September 29 helped garner the Maryland Tourism Council Global Marketing Award for the Kunta Kinte-Alex Haley Foundation. As an actor, performer and writer he has appeared on HBO’s, The Wire, TV ONE’s For My Man, the PBS Special, Partners of The Heart, and in productions of Aint Misbehavin.’

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BRIAN HARRIS, CEO and President of Green Dragon Entertainment, LLC learned his trade at 40 Acres and A Mule Film Works under the direction of Spike Lee. He became a BET Lighting Technician and later became Lighting Director and Designer for On Air Programming. In partnership with Pi Omni TV, Green Dragon Entertainment launched GDETV.TV in 2015, to bring films and shows to the world via IPTV and on-demand programming.

SHELLÉE M. HAYNESWORTH is an award-winning multimedia maker, storyteller and culture keeper. She has produced stories that chronicle and examine the under-told human stories and trailblazing contributions of African Americans and Latinos in history, arts, culture and humanities. Her latest multi-platform endeavor, the Black Broadway on U: A Transmedia Project sheds light on the under-told story of her native Washington, D.C.’s historic U Street Corridor, an important early 20th century gateway for African Americans, later became known as the “Black Broadway.”

MELISSA J. HOUGHTON joined Women in Film & Video (WIFV) as Executive Director in August 2005. Since that time, membership has grown to 1,000 media professionals and program provision averages 70 professional development offerings per year. WIFV has added fiscal sponsorship of independent media projects, a Seed Fund for Documentary Filmmakers, management of Women in Film & Television International, and the Carolyn’s First Decade Fund to its portfolio of programs that benefit members.

ADRENA IFILL is the CEO of Ifill/ DoubleBack Global Group an award-winning strategic communications consultancy firm that focuses on cultural heritage preservation. Starting this entrepreneurial venture was due in part to the inspiration and enthusiasm for history passed down to Ms. Ifill by her parents. Since 2002, DoubleBack has worked for major institutions to build legacy through experiences and materials, develop audiences and expand the reach of accomplished change agents.

CARLETON JACKSON is Head of Library Media Services (LMS), the centralized campus library for audiovisual collections and services located in Hornbake Library at University of Marland. LMS provides access to over 160,000 physical & digital media objects. Services include media and equipment lending, workstations, individual and group viewing rooms, campus cable, online media course reserves and instruction for sound and video production. He curates media used for coursework, research and learning and materials specifically for Film Studies Program.

HAROLD JACKSON is an EMMY Nominated Producer and the winner of the EMERGING FILMMAKER award at NCBFF. Harold produced, wrote, directed, shot and edited his first feature film “Seemless” in 2007 that went on to be an Official Selection of the Hollywood Black Film Festival and the Langston Hughes African American Film Festival. His next effort was the critically acclaimed, feature length documentary “BURN: The Evolution Of An American City” that won Best Documentary at the Hollywood Black Film Festival and Arizona Black Film Showcase. He recently directed Last Night” an ABFF BEST SCREENPLAY and Audience Circle Winner.

CHITHRA JEYARAM is a filmmaker and film educator with an MFA in Film Production from the University of Texas in Austin. She makes socially conscious films that break societal barriers, build bridges, change attitudes and enable people. Her short film - Mijo was aired on KLRU TV, PBS online film festival and in more than 50 film festivals around the world. She is the recipient of the 2014 Creative Arts Fellowship and BAVC National Mediamaker Fellowship for 1001 Breast Cancer Nights; 2013 Docs in Progress Fellowship for Foreign Puzzle.

JEFF KRULIK, Silver Spring-based Director/Producer/Researcher, resume includes work for Errol Morris, Discovery Networks and National Geographic Channel. His honors include guest filmmaker at the 48th Annual Robert Flaherty Film Seminar and inaugural recipient for the Peter C. Rollins Award for Achievement in Documentary Film, given by the Popular Culture Association. Krulik is a co-producer of cult documentary ‘Heavy Metal Parking Lot’ which is commemorated in the current exhibit HEAVY METAL PARKING LOT: The 30-Year Journey of a Cult Film Sensation in the Performing Arts Library of The Clarice at University of Maryland.

OLIVER MUSILA LITONDO is the President of Lakewood Films, a Maryland company with offices in Hollywood, USA and Nairobi, Kenya. Its mission is to tell compelling stories through film, for the global audience. For three decades he has been acting, producing and writing. He recently co-produced and directed the video “Twende Kenya”, to promote the Kenyan film industry. He starred in the film The First Grader, opposite Naomi Harris in 2010, and was awarded “Best Actor” by AARP Movie Awards and the Kenya International Film Festival in 2012. His many honors include the National Hero for Lifetime Achievement in Film and Broadcast Journalism, bestowed by H.E. Mwai Kibaki, President of Kenya on Kenya National Heroes Day, 2011.

JOE MARTIN has worked as a location manager, scout and producer since the 1990s. His projects include studio features, prime time network series, commercials, documentaries and high-end still photo shoots. In 1993, after leaving policy work on Capitol Hill, Martin worked on the road all over the U.S. and Europe as a producer of 225 episodes of cooking/travel programs that aired on PBS and Discovery. Among Joe Martin’s most recent projects are “Eero Saarinen: The Architect Who Saw The Future” to air this season on the PBS American Masters series and UnderArmour’s “It Comes From Below” commercial featuring Bryce Harper produced by Anonymous Content.

CATHERINE MURPHY is an independent producer who lived and worked in Cuba in the 1990s, earning a Master’s degree at the Facultad Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) program at the University of Havana. While in Cuba, she produced several films and organized dozens of academic and cultural exchange programs involving figures like Dr. Patch Adams and Wynton Marsalis. In 2006, Murphy worked as senior producer at the TeleSur TV Washington DC bureau. In 2009 while in Caracas, Murphy founded Tres Musas Producciones, a collaborative production house of independent women producers, working together in film, music and literature. Maestra, her directing debut, has screened widely since its release in 2012.

DAVID O’FERRALLI is the Business Agent for Local 487, I.A.T.S.E. It represents the craftspeople who work on the technical side of the Motion Pictures, Television Production and Broadcast Sports in Delaware, Maryland, Washington D.C. and Virginia. His responsibilities include the negotiation and enforcement of agreements, assist productions in crewing and to engage the State Legislatures on issues important to the film industry such as tax incentives. He has worked in various positions for the Local since 1992 and has been Business Agent since 2011. Prior to working for the Local he worked in various positions on numerous motion pictures, television productions and commercials.

SCOTT PETERSON is the Press Secretary and Deputy Communications Manager for Prince George’s County Office of the Executive. He serves as office’s media relations manager, spokesperson, and social media guru. Prior to working for Prince George’s County, Peterson served as the Director of Media Relations for the City of Baltimore as well as nine years as a spokesperson, marketer, producer, and civic educator for the C-SPAN Television Networks. He began his professional career working as a backstage production assistant at rock concerts in Pittsburgh and Washington, DC.

TIA A. SMITH is Executive in Change of Production, TV One. She developed and is responsible for the award winning “Find Our Missing” series along with building the network’s successful Monday night crime including “Fatal Attraction.” She is also responsible for developing scripted series “Born Again Virgin.” Tia is also the founder of talentedSOL Productions a script to screen company that was chosen by The Bill Gates Foundation to document the results of a malaria vaccine trial conducted in Africa. Ms. Smith’s career began at Black Entertainment Television, where at 26 years old, she became the youngest Music Director at the network where she served as Executive Producer for the longest and highest rated program, “Bobby Jones Gospel.”

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PIERRE WALCOTT, President/CEO of Creative Edge Collaborative is a graduate of Howard University. He believes that community brings to society what business and government cannot. Community brings the Love.

MATTHEW WHITE has over 25 years as an industry leader in the care and development of audio-visual archives and introducing innovative operational and licensing models and cultivating businesses and associations—that connect archives with audiences. He is Managing Partner of Sutton Hoo Productions and co-producer “The Beatles, Eight Days A Week, the Touring Years” (directed by Ron Howard) and was co-founder, in 2003, of the Association for Commercial Stock Image Licensors (ACSIL), and now is the Executive Director. He is co-producer of the Prince George’s Memory Project. Previously, he was the Executive Director for the Corporation of Public Broadcasting’s American Archive and Executive Vice President for Digital Markets at National Geographic Ventures.

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PITCH SESSION PARTICIPANTS

ANTONIO HERNANDEZ is a writer, photographer, event organizer, filmmaker, DJ and founder of Electric-Llama.com. DJing under the alias of Vicunyah, he weaves sounds from all over the world, from dancehall, cumbia, kuduro, kwaito, R&B, Baltimore club and everything in between. For his work in music, film and nightlife, he was awarded “Best Renaissance Man” in Baltimore City Paper’s 2016 “Best of ” issue.

Garnish is the premiere web series highlighting culture, causes and commerce in the D.C. metropolitan area and Baltimore that often exists on the fringes of mainstream media. Each episode features interviews with with creatives, entrepreneurs or activists who primarily work locally. Each subject is diverse, but a commitment to uplifting the community is a tenet that has appeared throughout the series. Garnish is brought to you by Antonio Hernandez, founding editor of electric-llama.com. Garish, http://www.watchgarnish.com/

ROBERT MAC is a Director. I could never sit still in class. I was more interested in the window than the blackboard. I was sent to the headmaster’s office most days. I received one of the last legal spankings in the UK at our school. I regret not getting a certificate. I was raised in a ‘broken home’ in Brighton, England during the reign of Margaret Thatcher. I decided to put myself back together through a life of storytelling. Books, plays, websites, documentaries and movies. I’m interested in it all. I have no regrets except the one mentioned earlier.

VICTORIOUS is a documentary that tailgated the D.C. DIVAS— one of the top women’s football team in America—during their 2015 season. Filmmaker Robert Mac embedded himself with the Divas as they hit the road to tear up some serious gridiron, capturing their camaraderie, sisterhood, and spirit along the way. It takes great courage for each Diva to step

onto the field. Each woman has a unique life story of how she got there and the life lessons the game has taught her along the way. VICTORIOUS is offering a no-holds-barred, behind-the-sidelines look at the Divas, some of the toughest and skilled female football players in the country. http://victoriousthemovie.com

MIRIAM MACHADO-LUCES is an Emmy and multiple Telly award winning producer, writer, director and President of TVA Media and TVA Productions,Ltd.(TVA) Born in Caracas, Venezuela and raised in a multi-lingual Afro-Caribbean household, Miriam’s pride in her roots is the foundation upon which her production career is built. She creates content with multi-cultural audiences in mind and tells their stories genuinely, often imbued with the engaging culture and continuing evolution in today’s global society. TVA was created in 1993 as a DC area film & video production company. In addition, Machado-Luces went on to develop programming for BET, BET Jazz, BET International, BET Event Productions and BETJ.

TriniVene Tribe is a documentary about the history of a Afro-Caribbean/Latino family with ties to Venezuela, Trinidad and United States.

ADESUA OKOSUN created a media platform called Young Africa Media. YAM was invented because I got tired of not seeing the stories that I not only relate too, stories that I know exist everyday. Stories I could recognize, people I could relate with, people that looked like myself or my sisters and brothers. I got tired of allowing others to tell the stories of my people, so I decided to pick up a camera and start recording.

“Africa Through My Eyes” is a web series that focuses on showing the world the different side of Africa that is not usually shown. We will take the world to 12 countries in Africa (Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal, Ivory Coast, Uganda, Cameroon, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania, Zimbabwe) The web series will have 24 episodes, 2 episodes per country. The series will document issues about LGBT community, Boko Haram (Terrorism), Surfing Community (Senegal), Art, Music, Inventions, Technology and more.

TSEDEY ARAGIE is an award winning producer who has been balancing two careers, one as an independent producer/filmmaker for the past 10 years, and the other working a 9-5 in both the private and government sectors. She has worked on a number of productions including cause related awareness campaigns, music videos, short art films and interviewing entertainers for an online magazine TADIAS .

Her latest project is an Ethio-American family comedy show that explores the personal lives of the main characters that include the parents, kids, and extended family members. Navigating through the topography of American culture and its often-opposing paradigm to Ethiopian cultural norms these parents are all about making an impact on how their kids define identity. Their pursuit to instill a very Ethio-centric reality in their kids instigates a constant debate in the home. The stories are widely based on her experiences as a 1st generation American

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FUTURE OF FILM EVENT ORGANIZERS

Talaya Grimes, Event Producer Mimi Machado-Luces, Communications Advisor Spencer Tober, Social Media and Tech Carleton Jackson, Head of Library Media Services Pierre Walcott, Program Director

VOLUNTEERS

Amanda Abby, Jay Elvove, Esan Myers, Kisha Murphy, Kimlee Hawkins,.Jeanette Simmons and Detra Watson

COMMUNICATIONS & DIGITAL TEAM

Videograper/Photography Brian Boyd, Justice, Louis Machado-Cooper, Social Media/Tech Support Miriam Machado-Luces and Spencer Tober

VENDORS

Design by Justin Bost of DesignBold,LLC and Printing by H&M PrintingLunch and Happy Hour catered by Bird Kitchen and Cocktails

WE THANK CREATIVE EDGE COLLABORATIVE’S STAFF, VOLUNTEERS AND VENDORS:

WE THANK OUR FUTURE OF FILM PROGRAM PARTNERS:

WE THANK OUR FUTURE COMMUNITY PARTNERS: