CREATIVE EDGE COLLABORATIVE PRESENTS

2 THE 0 1 FUTURE FILM 6 OF LOCAL. GLOBAL.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2016 Hornbake Library Media Services • University of Maryland College Park, MD Creative Edge Collaborative is a local arts & culture start-up Creative Edge Collaborative Board of Trustees Future of Film 2016 Conference is our annual are embracing digital media innovation to create archival based in the Gateway Arts District of Prince George’s County, Talaya Grimes, Board Chair; Craig Herndon, Treasurer; platform to exchange ideas, re-think community and promote productions, tackle global subjects and gain global audiences; MD. We are dedicated to bringing film and digital media Carleton Jackson, UMD Libraries Liaison;Miriam Machado- innovation in the film and digital media industry in Prince the financial incentives and technical infrastructure needed innovation to 21st Century audiences. Through this work, we Luces, Communication Advisor and Pierre Walcott, President George’s County and the Washington/Baltimore region. Future of to incubate and launch the next generation of film and digital hope to enrich the educational, cultural and economic life of the and CEO Film 2016 Conference theme is Local. Global. It was chosen to media enterprises; nuts and bolts of working on local and global county and beyond. highlight Prince George’s County and the region as a microcosm productions and what it takes to get projects funded. Creative Edge Collaborative Advisory Committee of the world. The Conference will examine ways local filmmakers Jay 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 [email protected] DAY AT A GLANCE 11:15am – 12:30pm 1:30pm – 2:45pm 4:30pm – 6:00pm 9:00am – 9:30am Sharing the Vision: Big Picture & Economic Advocacy Session A. Living the Creative Local digs into local Session C. Pitch Perfect is a rapid-fire filmmaker pitch Registration/Breakfast/Networking takes a closer look at the growth and economic impact of productions, locations and getting gigs with an exciting with a chance at getting funded, receiving feedback and 9:30am – 9:45am the film + digital media sector in the region and strategies group of panelists. finding out where your project fits within the new film and for supporting film + digital media innovation in Prince media marketplace. Welcome Speakers: Donna Foster-Dotson, Film Coordinator, Prince George’s County. George’s Film Office; Shellee Haynesworth, Producer, Indigo Pitchers: Tsedey Aragie, Erica Ginsberg, Antonio MC Chris Haley, Director of Research for the Study of the Speakers: Rhonda Dallas, Executive Director, Prince Communications; Jeff Krulik, Director/Producer/Researcher; Hernandez, Miriam Machado-Luces, Robert Mac and Legacy of Slavery in Maryland and Co-Director of the George’s Arts & Humanities Council and Prince George’s Joseph Martin, Location Manager and Tia Smith, Executive Adesua Okosun Utopia Film Festival in Prince George's County Film Office; Jack Gerbes, Director, Maryland Film Office; in Change of Production, TV One Producers: Monica Lee Bellais, Screenwriter/ Producer and 9:45am – 11:00am David O’Ferrall, Business Agent, IATSE and Maryland Film Moderator: Erica Ginsberg, Executive Director, Brian Harris, Green Dragon Entertainment Keynote: From Local Incubation to Global Co-Production Industry Coalition; Melissa Houghton, Executive Director, Docs in Progress Women in Film in Video and Scott Peterson, Press Secretary Moderator: Harold Jackson, CEO, American Filmmaker and with Matthew White, Managing Partner of Sutton Hoo 3:00pm – 4:15pm Director Productions and the Co-Producer of the acclaimed and Deputy Communications Manager for Prince George’s Session B. Stay Local, Go Global documentary, “The Beatles, Eight Days A Week, the Touring County Office of the Executive features local 6:00pm – 8:00pm Years.” This is a homegrown story now being told on a Moderator: Pierre Walcott, President/CEO, Creative Edge film professionals who are developing global business world-wide stage. Collaborative relationships and are working on productions in Latin Happy Hour with Music by DJ Vicunyah, Antonino America, Africa and Asia. Moderator: Carleton Jackson, Head of Library Media 12:30pm – 1:30pm Hernandez, Electric Llama Speakers: Services, University of Maryland Libraries Chitra Jeyaram, Filmmaker (India/Global); Oliver Lunch/Networking Litondo, Actor/Journalist (Kenya) and Catherine Murphy, Tres Musas (Cuba/Latin America) Moderator: Adrena Ifill, CEO of Ifill/DoubleBack Global Group (DC/Trinidad) SPEAKERS

MONICA LEE BELLAIS is an award winning screenwriter/producer who blends experiences ERICA GINSBERG is the Executive Director of Docs In Progress, a nonprofit that provides in Hollywood, Washington, DC and international markets. She is a Co-Executive Producer on the professional development, feedback, and community to documentary filmmakers throughout the feature film WAKEFIELD and a producer on BENNIE’S starring Ed Asner, Joe Estevez and Cathy DC Metro area. She is herself a documentary filmmaker, currently co-producing/directing Creative Moriarty. As an Executive Producer she managed nonfiction productions in the USA and United Feds and The Sideman which both explore the hidden artistic lives of federal workers. She is also Arab Emirates for audiences in the Middle East, Europe, North Africa and Asia. the Co-Host of The D-Word, a global, online community for documentary filmmakers.

RHONDA DALLAS, Executive Director, Prince George’s Arts & Humanities Council and Prince JACK GERBES joined the Maryland Film Office as its location and project manager in 1992. George’s Film Office, is a visionary arts administrator, curator and creative entrepreneur. As He was appointed Director of the Film Office in 2002. The Maryland Film Office promotes the Chair for two terms, she played a leading role in the re-organization, re-branding and legislative state to the film and television industry, and works with the productions as a location, logistical expansion of the Prince George’s Arts and Humanities Council (PGAHC). She continues to and informational resource while they film in Maryland. During the course of his career, Jack has advance the services of PGAHC through strategic initiatives that bridge cultural diversity and worked with over 125 films or television series in Maryland. His credits include: “House of Cards”, innovation while promoting creative industry growth, smart partnerships, and national best “VEEP” “The Wire”, “ Homicide: Life on the Street”, “Ladder 49”, “Wedding Crashers”, “Enemy of practices in arts and economic development, arts in education, arts and health and arts and the State”, “12 Monkeys”,“Runaway Bride”, “Step Up” and “Step Up 2”, “Live Free or Die Hard” and sustainability. “The Blair Witch Project.”

DONNA FOSTER-DOTSON is the Film Coordinator of the Prince George’s County Film CHRIS HALEY is the Director of Research for the Study of the Legacy of Slavery in Maryland Office. She is a multi-talented, Emmy and NAACP Image Awards winner with experience and and Co-Director of the Utopia Film Festival in Prince George’s County. Additionally, he has served expertise in all aspects of television and event productions management, planning and logistics, on the following boards: Kunta Kinte-Alex Haley Foundation, Historic London Town Foundation, budgeting, directing, producing and writing. Donna Foster-Dotson brings a wealth of well-rounded Jake Savage Foundation and the Annapolis Arts Alliance Foundation. His script for the 2004 The knowledge to the Prince George’s County Film Office in order to assist you with your production RECONCILIATION WALK for SLAVERY and PENITENCE held in Annapolis on September requirements. 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.’ SPEAKERS BRIAN HARRIS, CEO and President of Green Dragon Entertainment, LLC learned his trade CARLETON JACKSON is Head of Library Media Services (LMS), the centralized campus continued at 40 Acres and A Mule Film Works under the direction of Spike Lee. He became a BET Lighting library for audiovisual collections and services located in Hornbake Library at University of Technician and later became Lighting Director and Designer for On Air Programming. In Marland. LMS provides access to over 160,000 physical & digital media objects. Services include partnership with Pi Omni TV, Green Dragon Entertainment launched GDETV.TV in 2015, to media and equipment lending, workstations, individual and group viewing rooms, campus cable, bring films and shows to the world via IPTV and on-demand programming. 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. 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 HAROLD JACKSON is an EMMY Nominated Producer and the winner of the EMERGING and trailblazing contributions of African Americans and Latinos in history, arts, culture and FILMMAKER award at NCBFF. Harold produced, wrote, directed, shot and edited his first feature humanities. Her latest multi-platform endeavor, the Black Broadway on U: A Transmedia Project film “Seemless” in 2007 that went on to be an Official Selection of the Hollywood Black Film sheds light on the under-told story of her native Washington, D.C.’s historic U Street Corridor, an Festival and the Langston Hughes African American Film Festival. His next effort was the critically important early 20th century gateway for African Americans, later became known as the “Black acclaimed, feature length documentary “BURN: The Evolution Of An American City” that won Broadway.” 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. 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 CHITHRA JEYARAM is a filmmaker and film educator with an MFA in Film Production from program provision averages 70 professional development offerings per year. WIFV has added the University of Texas in Austin. She makes socially conscious films that break societal barriers, fiscal sponsorship of independent media projects, a Seed Fund for Documentary Filmmakers, build bridges, change attitudes and enable people. Her short film - Mijo was aired on KLRU TV, management of Women in Film & Television International, and the Carolyn’s First Decade Fund to PBS online film festival and in more than 50 film festivals around the world. She is the recipient its portfolio of programs that benefit members. of the 2014 Creative Arts Fellowship and BAVC National Mediamaker Fellowship for 1001 Breast Cancer Nights; 2013 Docs in Progress Fellowship for Foreign Puzzle. 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 JEFF KRULIK, Silver Spring-based Director/Producer/Researcher, resume includes work for entrepreneurial venture was due in part to the inspiration and enthusiasm for history passed Errol Morris, Discovery Networks and National Geographic Channel. His honors include guest down to Ms. Ifill by her parents. Since 2002, DoubleBack has worked for major institutions filmmaker at the 48th Annual Robert Flaherty Film Seminar and inaugural recipient for the to build legacy through experiences and materials, develop audiences and expand the reach of Peter C. Rollins Award for Achievement in Documentary Film, given by the Popular Culture accomplished change agents. 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. SPEAKERS OLIVER MUSILA LITONDO is the President of Lakewood Films, a Maryland company with DAVID O’FERRALLI is the Business Agent for Local 487, I.A.T.S.E. It represents the continued offices in Hollywood, USA and Nairobi, Kenya. Its mission is to tell compelling stories through craftspeople who work on the technical side of the Motion Pictures, Television Production and film, for the global audience. For three decades he has been acting, producing and writing. Broadcast Sports in Delaware, Maryland, Washington D.C. and Virginia. His responsibilities He recently co-produced and directed the video “Twende Kenya”, to promote the Kenyan film include the negotiation and enforcement of agreements, assist productions in crewing and to industry. He starred in the film The First Grader, opposite Naomi Harris in 2010, and was awarded engage the State Legislatures on issues important to the film industry such as tax incentives. He “Best Actor” by AARP Movie Awards and the Kenya International Film Festival in 2012. His many has worked in various positions for the Local since 1992 and has been Business Agent since 2011. honors include the National Hero for Lifetime Achievement in Film and Broadcast Journalism, Prior to working for the Local he worked in various positions on numerous motion pictures, bestowed by H.E. Mwai Kibaki, President of Kenya on Kenya National Heroes Day, 2011. television productions and commercials.

JOE MARTIN has worked as a location manager, scout and producer since the 1990s. His SCOTT PETERSON is the Press Secretary and Deputy Communications Manager for projects include studio features, prime time network series, commercials, documentaries and Prince George’s County Office of the Executive. He serves as office’s media relations manager, high-end still photo shoots. In 1993, after leaving policy work on Capitol Hill, Martin worked on spokesperson, and social media guru. Prior to working for Prince George’s County, Peterson the road all over the U.S. and Europe as a producer of 225 episodes of cooking/travel programs served as the Director of Media Relations for the City of Baltimore as well as nine years as a that aired on PBS and Discovery. Among Joe Martin’s most recent projects are “Eero Saarinen: spokesperson, marketer, producer, and civic educator for the C-SPAN Television Networks. He The Architect Who Saw The Future” to air this season on the PBS American Masters series began his professional career working as a backstage production assistant at rock concerts in and UnderArmour’s “It Comes From Below” commercial featuring Bryce Harper produced by Pittsburgh and Washington, DC. Anonymous Content. TIA A. SMITH is Executive in Change of Production, TV One. She developed and is CATHERINE MURPHY is an independent producer who lived and worked in Cuba in the responsible for the award winning “Find Our Missing” series along with building the network’s 1990s, earning a Master’s degree at the Facultad Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) successful Monday night crime including “Fatal Attraction.” She is also responsible for developing program at the University of Havana. While in Cuba, she produced several films and organized scripted series “Born Again Virgin.” Tia is also the founder of talentedSOL Productions a script dozens of academic and cultural exchange programs involving figures like Dr. Patch Adams and to screen company that was chosen by The Bill Gates Foundation to document the results of Wynton Marsalis. In 2006, Murphy worked as senior producer at the TeleSur TV Washington a malaria vaccine trial conducted in Africa. Ms. Smith’s career began at Black Entertainment DC bureau. In 2009 while in Caracas, Murphy founded Tres Musas Producciones, a collaborative Television, where at 26 years old, she became the youngest Music Director at the network where production house of independent women producers, working together in film, music and she served as Executive Producer for the longest and highest rated program, “Bobby Jones literature. Maestra, her directing debut, has screened widely since its release in 2012. Gospel.” SPEAKERS PIERRE WALCOTT, President/CEO of Creative Edge Collaborative is a graduate of Howard continued 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. PITCH SESSION PARTICIPANTS

ANTONIO HERNANDEZ is a writer, photographer, event organizer, filmmaker, DJ and onto the field. Each woman has a unique life story of how she got there and the life lessons founder of Electric-Llama.com. DJing under the alias of Vicunyah, he weaves sounds from all the game has taught her along the way. VICTORIOUS is offering a no-holds-barred, behind- over the world, from dancehall, cumbia, kuduro, kwaito, R&B, Baltimore club and everything the-sidelines look at the Divas, some of the toughest and skilled female football players in the in between. For his work in music, film and nightlife, he was awarded “Best Renaissance Man” country. http://victoriousthemovie.com in Baltimore City Paper’s 2016 “Best of” issue. Garnish is the premiere web series highlighting culture, causes and commerce in the D.C. MIRIAM MACHADO-LUCES is an Emmy and multiple Telly award winning producer, metropolitan area and Baltimore that often exists on the fringes of mainstream media. Each writer, director and President of TVA Media and TVA Productions,Ltd.(TVA) Born in episode features interviews with with creatives, entrepreneurs or activists who primarily Caracas, Venezuela and raised in a multi-lingual Afro-Caribbean household, Miriam’s pride work locally. Each subject is diverse, but a commitment to uplifting the community is a tenet in her roots is the foundation upon which her production career is built. She creates content that has appeared throughout the series. Garnish is brought to you by Antonio Hernandez, with multi-cultural audiences in mind and tells their stories genuinely, often imbued with founding editor of electric-llama.com. Garish, http://www.watchgarnish.com/ 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 ROBERT MAC is a Director. I could never sit still in class. I was more interested in the BETJ. 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 TriniVene Tribe is a documentary about the history of a Afro-Caribbean/Latino family with in a ‘broken home’ in Brighton, England during the reign of Margaret Thatcher. I decided to ties to Venezuela, Trinidad and United States. 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 PITCH SESSION ADESUA OKOSUN created a media platform called Young Africa Media. YAM was WE THANK CREATIVE EDGE PARTICIPANTS invented because I got tired of not seeing the stories that I not only relate too, stories that I COLLABORATIVE’S STAFF, continued know exist everyday. Stories I could recognize, people I could relate with, people that looked VOLUNTEERS AND VENDORS: 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. FUTURE OF FILM EVENT ORGANIZERS “Africa Through My Eyes” is a web series that focuses on showing the world the different side Talaya Grimes, Event Producer 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) Mimi Machado-Luces, Communications Advisor The web series will have 24 episodes, 2 episodes per country. The series will document issues Spencer Tober, Social Media and Tech about LGBT community, Boko Haram (Terrorism), Surfing Community (Senegal), Art, Carleton Jackson, Head of Library Media Services Music, Inventions, Technology and more. Pierre Walcott, Program Director VOLUNTEERS TSEDEY ARAGIE is an award winning producer who has been balancing two careers, one Amanda Abby, Jay Elvove, Esan Myers, Kisha Murphy, Kimlee Hawkins,.Jeanette Simmons as an independent producer/filmmaker for the past 10 years, and the other working a 9-5 and Detra Watson 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 COMMUNICATIONS & DIGITAL TEAM entertainers for an online magazine TADIAS . Videograper/Photography Her latest project is an Ethio-American family comedy show that explores the personal Brian Boyd, Justice, Louis Machado-Cooper, lives of the main characters that include the parents, kids, and extended family members. Social Media/Tech Support Navigating through the topography of American culture and its often-opposing paradigm Miriam Machado-Luces and Spencer Tober 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 VENDORS a constant debate in the home. The stories are widely based on her experiences as a 1st generation American Design by Justin Bost of DesignBold,LLC and Printing by H&M Printing Lunch and Happy Hour catered by Bird Kitchen and Cocktails WE THANK WE THANK OUR FUTURE OF OUR FUTURE FILM PROGRAM COMMUNITY PARTNERS: PARTNERS: