PANELIST BIOGRAPHIES CHRIS MOORE (Creator / Executive Producer: “The Chair”) Chris Moore has worn a number of hats during his 22-year career in the media industry. He started out as an agent at Intertalent and then at ICM, where he represented writers and directors including Zak Penn, Rich Wilkes, Paul and Chris Weitz, and M. Night Shyamalan. He sold or packaged many projects including Last Action Hero, Airheads, PCU, and Stoned Age. In 1993 he formed the production company Fusion Studios, through which he has served as producer or executive producer on such films as Good Will Hunting, (Academy Award® winner for Best Original Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor), Glory Daze, Best Laid Plans, Joy Ride, American Pie, Waiting, and Reindeer Games. In 1999, Chris partnered with friends and creative collaborators Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, and Sean Bailey to form LivePlanet, a company dedicated to the creation of multi-platform entertainment content. Moore served as Chief Executive Officer of LivePlanet, and was the driving force behind the groundbreaking, Emmy®-nominated “Project Greenlight.” In 2005, Moore left LivePlanet to concentrate on creating properties once again. He has since produced or directed The Adjustment Bureau, The People Speak, Kill Theory, Still Waiting, American Reunion, and Promised Land. Chris is a graduate of Harvard College. SHANE DAWSON (Director: Not Cool) Shane Dawson is one of the biggest comedians on YouTube with over 10 million subscribers across his three channels and over a billion views. Dawson made his first YouTube video on his own in 2006 and has been producing daily videos ever since. In 2012, he began self-releasing original music and all four of his singles have reached the top 20 on iTunes. He has won both Streamy, and Teen Choice Awards and has been featured in the NY Times, LA Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal. In 2010, Forbes magazine named him their 25th most famous web celebrity. In June of 2013, he launched his podcast “Shane and Friends” which hit #1 on iTunes in 24 hours. In October 2013, he sold a half-hour sitcom to NBC with Olive Bridge Entertainment and Sony TV. Most recently, Dawson signed a book deal with Keywords Press, a joint venture of Atria Publishing Group and United Talent Agency, to create a unique, crowdsourced literary experience. ANNA MARTEMUCCI (Director: Hollidaysburg) Anna Martemucci is a writer, actor, and filmmaker. She co-wrote, produced, and plays the role of ‘Lenka Jones’ in the feature film Breakup at a Wedding from Anonymous Content, and Before the Door Pictures, and distributed by Oscilloscope Laboratories. In 2010, she founded Periods. Films with her partner Victor Quinaz. Her short film collaborations with Victor and the Periods. film team have been featured on The Huffington Post, EW.com, New York Magazine’s Vulture.com, Refinery 29, and Indiewire, and were given a retrospective at Grauman’s Chinese Theater as the opening night event of the Hollyshorts Film Festival. Film Independent, the producers of the Independent Spirit Awards, featured Anna, Victor, and the films of Periods. on their website and the series was named the #15 Funniest Web Series of all time by Time Out NY. ZACHARY QUINTO (Co-Executive Producer: “The Chair”) Zachary Quinto has become a star of stage and screen, appearing in film, television and theater, as well as working behind the scenes as a film producer. He recently completed production on Twentieth Century Fox’s Agent 47, a reboot of the film Hitman. The film is being directed by Aleksander Bach, and will be released in 2015. Most recently, he was seen onstage as Tom Wingfield in “The Glass Menagerie” at the Booth Theater on Broadway. The play was nominated for a 2014 Tony Award in the category of Best Revival of a Play. Previously, Zachary reprised his role as ‘Spock’ in Star Trek Into Darkness, the sequel to J.J. Abram’s 2009 feature film reboot of Star Trek. Star Trek Into Darkness grossed $228,778,661 in the United States and $466,978,661 worldwide. In 2013, Zachary produced All Is Lost through his production company Before the Door Pictures. The film, starring Robert Redford, and directed by J.C. Chandor, centers on a man’s struggle to survive while lost at sea. In 2011, Zachary appeared on Ryan Murphy’s Golden Globe®-winning series “American Horror Story” opposite Jessica Lange and Connie Britton. In 2012, he returned to star in the second installment of “American Horror Story: Asylum” for which he won the 2013 Critics’ Choice Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Mini Series. He also received his first Emmy® nomination for this role. Zachary returned to the stage in 2010 winning several awards for his performance as ‘Louis Ironson’ in the Off- Broadway revival of Tony Kushner’s epic play cycle “Angels in America,” directed by Michael Greif. In 2008, Zachary founded Before The Door Pictures with producing partners Neal Dodson and Corey Moosa. They have numerous projects in all states of development across a wide range of new media, television, graphic novels, and film (including Margin Call, All is Lost, Breakup at a Wedding, and Banshee Chapter).Zachary has also found success on the small screen. In 2007, he became a breakout star of the internationally-acclaimed NBC hit series “Heroes,” as the psychopathic super-powered serial killer ‘Sylar.’ In 2004, he spent an entire season in the CTU as computer analyst ‘Adam Kaufman’ on FOX’s highly-rated drama “24.” Zachary grew up in Pittsburgh and began performing, and studying theater there as a child. What started as a hobby quickly evolved into a vocation and he eventually enrolled at Carnegie Mellon School of Drama, and earned a BFA in Musical Theater. Some of his early memorable stage experiences include “Side Man,” “Gross Indecency” (City Theatre Company), “A Lonely Impulse of Delight” (Vineyard Playhouse), “The Bear” (Tintreach Company – Galway, Ireland), “Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow” (Old Globe), “Much Ado About Nothing” (LA Shakespeare Festival), and numerous workshops of new plays at the Ojai Playwright's Conference (where he has also served on the Board since 2010). Upon graduation from CMU, Zachary moved to Los Angeles to begin his career, landing guest-starring roles on such shows as “CSI,” “Six Feet Under,” “Joan of Arcadia,” and “Crossing Jordan,” to name a few. He currently divides his time between New York and Los Angeles. .