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The Panel Speakers
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JOHN RAATZ，Producer
John Raatz is The founder and principal of The visioneering Group, which serves the cultural creative, body/mind/Spirit, and LOHAS communities. John is considered a pioneer of the evolving entertainment, arts, and media genre and one of the first to recognize the need and value of integrating the genre into a larger market.On the film side, John has been a consultant and head of marketing, PR, creative development, distribution, and other business aspects of numerous films over the past 30 + years, many of which were seminal in the transformational film category. John founded a production company called visioneering Entertainment, which"creates community and global transformation through conscious entertainment." Among other things, John created the Visioneering Media Network to "connect alternative distribution venues with films, speakers, and special events/programs." He founded the non-profit organization GATE, the Global Transformation Entertainment Association.John was co-founder of the Los Angeles chapter of the nonprofit International Institute of Film Financing, and its investment arm, Film Angels. |
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Pete Allman; Producer, Tvshow host, celebrity interviewer
Pete Allman is an actor and producer, known for Vatos Locos (2011), Brando Unauthorized (2010) and Saving Little Italy. He was an accomplished singer and performed in Las Vegas hotels at the beginning of his career. Mayor Oscar Goodman of Las Vegas proclaimed May 14th as "Pete Allman Day" in recognition for his journalistic endeavors towards promoting the positive aspects of Las Vegas for television and print. Was the first person in Las Vegas history to produce a weekly television show. Founded Celebrity Scene News, a multi faceted agency delivering entertainment news and reports over a wide span of media including television, radio, newspapers and magazines. He has interviewed over 40,000 celebrities; has produced hundreds of radio broadcasts, countless commercials, over 300 half-hour talk shows and three feature films to date. |
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Romane A Simon; Producer,Director, Writer
Romane Simon- the Grandson of Haiti's Former President - was born and raised in Haiti, where he began his filmmaking career. He moved miles from home to the United States to continue and expand his dreams in the Entertainment Industry, by embarking upon several more projects. Simon currently works as a screenplay writer, actor, fight choreographer, stuntman, dancer, and even model. Simon is also a great MMA fighter with a record of 9-2-3. Simon has produced 56 projects, directed 41 projects. Such as Our Way; Romane Simon:Life of Gia the Movie; Hybrustophilia; Red to Black, etc. Won many awards from many film festivals. |
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Russ Emanuel, Director, Producer
Russ Emanuel is an award-winning American director, producer, and independent filmmaker, having directed such actors as John Heard, Robert Picardo, Vincent Pastore, Glynnis O'Connor, Hallie Kate Eisenberg, Jeremy London, Ryan Hurst, William Devane, Marina Sirtis, Sean Kenney, Armin Shimerman, and Gary Graham. He grew up in both Japan and the United States and graduated from U.S.C. to study Cinema-Television. He founded Russem Productions in 2002 to promote his films including GIRL WITH GUN (2005) and documentary RESTORATION OF PARADISE (2014). Presently, STAYCATION (2022) - the sequel to ROUTINE currently in post-production - marks Emanuel's sixth foray into feature filmmaking, after directing P.J. (2007), CHASING THE GREEN (2009), THE LEGENDS OF NETHIAH (2012), OCCUPANTS (2015), and WISPER (2020). And THE ASSASSIN'S APPRENTICE II is Emanuel's first sequel film he has directed. |
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