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2015 UMFF " Distributor A to Z" Panel
The Economic globalization brings financial benefit; also carry the different cultures and art in one environment. How do we produce the movies for the audience in multicultural background?
Time: 4:00-5:30PM; April 19, 2015
Location: Room 163, 550 Deep Valley Drive, Rolling Hills Estate, CA 90275
The Panel Speakers are:
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Erik Lundmark; Distributor, musician, Producer
Eric is the CEO of Leomark Studios, a film production, post-production, and distribution company with more than 50 film titles in its catalog. He is also a successful jazz composer and bandleader, scored more than 40 feature films, including” Star Leaf”. His post-production experience includes “Immortals” and “Mirror, Mirror”; as well as “Piranha 3D”and “The Mist”for the Weinstein Company’s Dimension Films. Erik was online editor for the 2008 action thriller Hellride exec-produced by Quentin Tarantino. Since founding Leomark Studios in 2007, Erik has produced several titles under his own shingle, as well as co-creating and producing the original MovieMaze™ Mobile App
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Lyle Howry; Producer, Distributor, Director
Lyle has been associated with the entertainment industry for more than 30 years, including over ten years in corporate finance, as well as specializing in Studio and Television negotiations. He has been involved with many major studios and networks, joint ventures and productions with them and independent production company's along with producers.
In 2010 Lyle Howry is a new owner of Skinfly Entertainment a full service production company, including plans for a on line film and television channel that is launching world wide in the near future.
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Jordan Gregory; Distributor
Jordan Gregory is an executive with over 15 years of experience in the Entertainment Industry. Jordan is co-founder of Your Hollywood Pro and host of the top-rated Your Hollywood Pro podcast, which was featured in the iTunes New & Noteworthy for TV & Film, Business and Education.
Jordan’s career started in his teenage years as a movie theatre usher, where he quickly discovered his love of movies. Jordan has an extensive exhibition background in both operations and marketing. He has worked for Arclight/Pacific Theatres, Cinemark and AMC Theatres.
Working for Deluxe Media Management allowed Jordan to gain expertise in the area of In-Theatre Marketing materials and lobby displays.
Before co-founding Your Hollywood Pro to help filmmakers and creative professionals be successful in the business, Jordan worked for IMAX on theatrical marketing on campaigns for all IMAX films including Gravity, Godzilla, Guardians of the Galaxy and Disney’s Maleficent.
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Javier Palenzuela; Distributor
Born and raised in Miami, FL by Cuban born parents that fled to America at 13 & 16 years old. He grew up sketching & cartooning, and at 19 produced his first low budget feature film while going to computer animation/film school. He moved to Los Angeles and began producing: educational videos, pitch reels, short films, comedy sketches and recently; Game Knights, a half-animated web series about role-playing gamers. He’s been performing standup for seven years at venues like the Comedy Store and co-host of the Sean and Bill Show podcast that has reached up to 100k listeners a month. |
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Mr. Mark Schaefer; Producer/Distributor
Mark Schaefer is Product Manager of Super-natural-films.com, InstantDigitalinc.com and AbsurdTV.us. Mark Schaefer has been in charge of distribution of the film products to theaters, dvd's, digital file downloads and web entertainment since 2008. Digital distribution, movie licensing and getting films ready to play in theaters is Mark Schaefer's forte. |
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Alex Chionetti; Film and Television Producer
Alex is a Film and Television Producer. Formed in the Roger Corman' overseas productions, he also managed his distribution in Latin America, particularly in Mexico, where he created Concorde/ New Horizons' branch. He had act as representative of foreign films selling their products to local networks, as HBO, Sundance Channel,etc. Specialized in acquisitions and distributions of independent films in all Latin America. Also as producer he was creative and develop especial and top rating series and content for The History Channel and Sy Fy. |
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Charles Morris Jr. Producer, Screen Writer, Distributor
Charles Morris Jr. is a produced screenwriter and co-producer of feature films as well as the creator of live action and animated series for television. Currently, Charles is the Head of Development and Acquisitions for Global Genesis Group. Charles is actively acquiring and managing Intellectual Properties from around the world for mainstream distribution outlets as well as new platforms and digital channels. Global Genesis Group is actively seeking quality features from the festival circuit and other caused based projects and will be opening its own digital platform to its library in mid 2015 |
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