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Tuesday, May 22nd, 2018

2:40 PM - 3:40 PM, Haas Conference Center, Room 171

The Content Development & Financing Workshop - Film – TV – Indie Production – Internet Programming

Elissa Friedman, SVP Development & Production, Covert Media

Ethan Goldman, Partner, Anchor Worldwide

Yvonne Huff Lee, co-founder, The Lagralane Group

Jim Milio, Producer/Executive Producer of Motion Pictures and Television Programming

Jill Gilbert, Head of Animated Content, Luma

Jamice Oxley, Associate, Pryor Cashman LLP, Moderator

 

Ethan Goldman is a producer/development executive with twenty years’ experience working in television, film and digital. Goldman recently was promoted to Partner at Anchor Worldwide, a global creative agency where he heads up the entertainment division in Los Angeles. Most recently Goldman served as Head of Development at Warrior Poets, where he developed multiple tv, film and digital projects including Showtime’s The Trade, an official selection of the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, Cultureshock, an eight part docuseries in collaboration with Entertainment Weekly (A&E), Superheroes Decoded (History), American Takedown (A&E), Dark Horse Nation (History), I Hart Food featuring Hannah Hart (Food Network) The HALO Effect (Nickelodeon), a feature length doc for CMT Films entitled Freedom! The Movie, as well as AOL’s most-viewed series, Connected. Goldman also served as an

Executive Producer on Censored Voices, a feature doc that premiered at Sundance 2015 in the World Cinema Doc category. Prior to joining Warrior Poets, Ethan was Senior Vice President of Ish Entertainment, where he developed projects for cable tv (Brooklyn 11223, Bravo’s Approval Matrix, Patrice Oneal’s Guide to White People, Diplo’s Never Coming Home, America on Zero Dollars) and played an instrumental role in launching two YouTube channels: MyISH, a music discovery platform for millennials, and Life +Times, a collaboration with Jay-Z. Before Ish Entertainment, Ethan worked as a creative consultant for various cable networks developing show ideas and original programming for AMC, truTV, and Fuse. From 2006 to 2008, Ethan ran the television division of Original Media (The Rachel Zoe Project, Storm Chasers, LA Ink), overseeing production and development on projects for Bravo, Discovery, TLC, MTV, VH1 and Fuse. Prior to Original Media, Ethan was Director of Production Development at MTV, where he was responsible for developing long-form series and specials for both MTV and MTV2. Ethan got his start in business at VH1, working for Lauren Zalaznick, contributing to projects like 100 Greatest, Vogue/VH1 Fashion Awards, Pop Up Video and The List. During his five-year tenure at VH1, Ethan spent six months on loan to Paramount Films as Ben Stiller’s assistant on Zoolander. Ethan is a graduate of Tufts University.

 

Jill Gilbert is the Head of Animated Content at Luma, where she plays an instrumental role in transitioning the company from its core business as a VFX/animation vendor to a content creation studio. Since joining Luma in 2016, she has built a slate of projects consisting of original animated feature-films and animated short form content. The first animated feature-film is slated for pre-production in 2018.  Prior to joining Luma, Jill was Executive Producer and Managing Director for Psyop, an innovative animation studio in the advertising and branding industry for the last 16 years, working with such clients as Coke, Nike, Samsung, AMC and Super Cell. She launched an IP initiative for the company and oversaw the development and production for original content. From late 2011 until early 2014, she was Vice President of Production for the newly launched feature animation division at Paramount Pictures in Hollywood. In this role, she successfully launched Paramount Animation’s first film, SpongeBob SquarePants in 3D into production and oversaw all creative and production‐related aspects of the movie. Before joining Paramount, Gilbert served in various leadership positions at Technicolor and DisneyToons Studios and begun her career in live-action with posts at Fox 2000, Baltimore Pictures and Shuler-Donner Productions.

 

Yvonne Huff Lee is co-founder of Lagralane Group. She is a producer, actor, philanthropist and mother to three with her husband and co-founder, Jason Delane Lee. She is a founding member of the Los Angeles-based Lower Depth Theatre Ensemble and has appeared on stage in both LA and Chicago. Her film and television credits include Beyond the Pretty Door, Barry Munday, NCIS: Los Angeles, Rake, Parenthood, Bones, Strong Medicine, Eli Stone, Without a Trace, The Young and The Restless, Monk and Boston Legal. Yvonne is inspired by the female experience and seeks to elevate both female-driven narratives and women’s perspectives. She is passionate about the power of storytelling to both entertain and foment social change.

 

Elissa Friedman, Production Executive, Covert Media: Friedman develops and builds the Covert Media slate. She serves as an Executive Producer on all of their titles including the highly anticipated Ophelia starring Daisy Ridley and Naomi Watts, the newly announced The Ice Cream Man, Forty-Six directed by Alik Sakharov, YA thriller Need, and Resurface produced alongside Broken Road Productions. Before joining Covert Media, Elissa served as production executive at QED International for over six years working on such films as Fury, Sabotage, Fading Gigolo, Haunt and Dirty Grandpa, as well as associate producer on Rock The Kasbah.

 

Jim Milio has been an award-winning writer, producer and director of television and films for more than thirty years. Milio has written, produced, or directed more than 400 hours of primetime television including “Dog Whisperer” for National Geographic, “Founding Fathers” for the History Channel, The Discovery Channel’s “Eco-Challenge Australia,” “Rescue 911” for CBS, the Emmy nominated “Great Moments in Disney Animation” for ABC, and “The Real Las Vegas” for A&E. In film, Milio wrote and directed Men Seeking Women starring Will Ferrell and was the co-executive producer of the highest grossing romantic comedy of all time, “My Big Fat Greek Wedding.” Milio was co-chair of the Non-Fiction Committee of the Writer’s Guild of America (WGA) and was a member of the Non-Fiction Steering Committee of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (ATAS) for two years. He has won three People’s Choice Awards (“Dog Whisperer,” “My Big Fat Greek Wedding,” and “Rescue 911”) and been nominated for numerous Emmy Awards and Writer’s Guild Awards.

 

Jamice Oxley, Associate, Pryor Cashman LLP: Jamice Oxley is a graduate of Yale University, where she received a dual Bachelor of Arts Degree in American Studies and Women’s & Gender Studies, and Loyola Law School, where she received her Juris Doctor degree. Jamice currently practices entertainment and intellectual property law as an Associate in the Los Angeles office of Pryor Cashman LLP. Jamice is a member of the firm’s Media + Entertainment, Intellectual Property and Digital Media groups where she provides strategic counsel to artists, entertainers, production companies, music publishers, digital media companies, and film and television studios. Jamice negotiates and drafts all manner of entertainment and intellectual property agreements on behalf of clients in the areas of music, television, film, digital media and technology and serves as production counsel for film and unscripted and scripted television and digital media projects. Prior to joining Pryor Cashman, Jamice was a junior partner of B2L Entertainment Law Group in Los Angeles, California, a boutique entertainment firm, representing creative talent and production companies in music, television, film, digital media, book publishing and technology. Jamice’s practice consisted of negotiating and drafting agreements on behalf of content creators, distributors, production companies and creative talent, serving as production counsel for the creation and distribution of content and advising clients with respect to the protection and distribution of trademark and copyright intellectual property rights. Prior to B2L, Jamice worked for Courtroom View Network as a legal content associate and as an attorney for a mid-sized business and entertainment litigation and transactional firm, Rutter Hobbs & Davidoff. Jamice has also held legal positions with the Los Angeles Public Defenders’ Office, the Directors Guild of America, and the Creative Artists Agency (CAA), Warner Bros., and Rhino Home Video in both litigation and entertainment transactional capacities. Jamice Oxley is also an active Board member. Since 2010, Jamice has served on the Alumnae Council Board for her high school alma mater, Marlborough School, a private Los Angeles all-girls’ day school. She was a member of the school’s private Search Committee to appoint a new Head of School in 2014-2015 and has served as a member of the Marlborough School Board of Trustees Policies & Practices Committee and the Development Committee. Jamice, since 2012, has also served on the Executive Committee of the Entertainment and Intellectual Property Law Section (ELIPS) of the Los Angeles County Bar Association (LACBA). She is currently the Vice-President of the Section and will hold the position of President in 2017-2018. Jamice also actively participates as a member of the Black Entertainment and Sports Lawyers Association and the Entertainment Law Section of the John M. Langston Bar Association. Jamice Oxley is also a Yale University Alumni Admissions Interviewer, an active supporter of organizations committed to servicing children with Autism Spectrum Disorder and their families, and an active fundraiser and supporter for African-American candidates and women running for and currently serving in political office. Jamice currently serves on the Advisory Committee of Ignite, a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote gender parity in politics and increase the number of women running for political office in the United States.