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,