Chris Nunes, Principal NUNES & ASSOCIATES ENTERTAINMENT LAW
Chris Nunes is a San Francisco entertainment attorney representing music and film clients across the globe. Chris received his Bachelor's degree in business economics from UCLA, where he made significant contacts in the entertainment industry. Prior to law school, Chris was a corporate strategist for three start-up companies during the dotcom boom in the San Francisco Bay Area. He then earned his law degree from Georgetown University in Washington D.C. where he was first an advocate and then a coach of the school's Entertainment Law Moot Court team, as well as an integral staffer of the Washington Area Lawyers for the Arts. Upon graduation from law school, Chris brought his law practice back to his native San Francisco in order to leverage his numerous entertainment and political contacts and to help bolster the entertainment industry around the Bay Area. Among other projects, Chris is currently partnering with the San Francisco Film Commission, the Music Video Producers Association, and the Director's Guild of America on a music video competition to bring feature film directors to San Francisco. Chris is also active in the music scenes in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York and Miami, and is the co-founder of a yet-announced lifestyle entertainment firm.

Representative clients include:
• Award-winning DJ Sandra Collins
• World-renowned DJs and producers Rabbit in the Moon
• Funky house duo Thunderball
• Record label Character Records
• The International Institute of Film Finance
• Multi-media production house Expansion Team, LLC
• Film PR company Urban Quail Entertainment
• Film production company Hester Street Productions
• Good Foot Production's remake of 1984's 'Beat Street"
• TV development and production company Game Seven, LLC
•Talent managers Industry Entertainment Partners

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Patricia Freed Ackerman, Director of International Activities

Filmmaker, Poet, Publisher, Printer, Achivist, and Curator.
Member, International Library and Information Studies Honor Society
Beta Phi Mu International Library Science Honor Society
Founder and editor, Thin Ice Press, www.thinicepress.com
Education
BA, Creative Writing, New College of California, San Francisco
M.A., Writing/Poetics, New College of Callifornia, San Francisco
M.S. LIS, Information and Library Science, Pratt Institute, New York, New York

Film Production
•Co-founder of an independent film company. Responsible for budgeting, scheduling for post production, records management and archiving of documentation, films, videos and photographs.
Have collaborated on a number of film and video works that have been shown in venues across the country.
—Responsibilities in all phases of pre-production, production and post production including, budgeting, scripting, scheduling, location crew, audio, lighting, film and video editing, duplication and distribution planning. Have worked on experimental film and video productions, music videos, commercial television spots, corporate films, and produced documentaries.
• Co-manager of award winning video/film production company, Green Mountain Video. Music video, Old Paris picked as a high light of the 1st Annual Billboard Video Music Awards in Los Angeles.

Administrative
• Conference coordinator for the National Book Arts, worked with the Director in event and seminar planning, scheduling, location arrangement and promotion. Organized registration for participants. Coordinated arrangements for speakers, video documentation of seminars, and simultaneous conference related exhibitions both on- and off-site.
• Co-manager of award winning video/film production company
• Co-publisher of Regional Magazine
• Managed New York gallery/working artist space
• Managed Print Production Company
• Webmaster New York based poetics/arts site

Organization
• Coordination of the work of graduate student assistants in gathering information and preparing annotations and synopses of film titles for entry into the Program for Art on Film database. As graduate assistant to the Dean of Continuing education, Pratt School of Information and Library Science was responsible for gathering, organizing, filing, and maintaining viewable directories of all the syllabi created by the professors of the graduate library and information science program, student papers and research projects, and the collection of Library and Information Science catalogs.
• Video duplication manager of large video production company was responsible for scheduling, and coordination of duplication for a number of clients.
• As conference coordinator of the National Book Arts Conference was responsible for scheduling and arranging for speakers, organizing registration for conference attendees, conference office management and supervising the work of staff and volunteers.

Archival
Performed archival arrangement and prepared a finding aid (hardcopy and electronic access) for the Doris Chase Collection at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Microfilmed a thirty-year collection of document archives of the New York Film-maker's Cooperative for the Celeste Bartos Film Study Center at the Museum of Modern Art.

Reference
Conducted online and offline reference searches, and in preparing hard copy search results for large searches requested by email, mail, fax or phone by subscribers to large film database service.

Database Organization
Collected source material and information for individual records, and wrote synopses for the database for the Program for Art on Film. Supervised and instructed staff in database maintenance and data input.

Instructional
Conducted workshops. Coordinated facilities, materials, and supplies for hands-on classes in desktop publishing and print production. Provided teaching assistance to college instructors. Provided tutorial and one on one instruction to students with diverse skill levels. Developed strong interpersonal communication skills while working closely with students from diverse backgrounds and interests.

Records Management
Organized, maintained and updated both hard copy and electronic data for a circulation file of 7,000 records.

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Board of Advisors

Frank Chindamo is the President and Chief Creative Officer of Fun Little Movies. "FLM" specializes in producing original, live-action comedy films for its mobile channels of entertainment on Sprint-Nextell, Microsoft, Smart Video phones, in the US and many other countries around the world. They’re known as “Fun Funny Phone Films.”

Fun Little Movies has been the subject of cover stories in Forbes Magazine and the L.A. Times, and stories in Variety, Hollywood Reporter, CBS Radio, Wired Magazine, CBS TV’s Inside Edition, The Chicago Tribune, and several other outlets. Click here to see articles and watch the Ericsson Telecom Report on Fun Little Movies, or a recent news story on Frank Chindamo.

Frank Chindamo holds the world's record for most short films made independently. His films have appeared on HBO, Showtime, CBS, PBS, A&E, Playboy, MTV and Comedy Central, etc. They’ve won 20 awards including The American Cine Golden Eagle, The American International Film Festival and a Finalist's Place for Best Short at the Cannes Film Festival.

Frank is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Southern California. At USC, Frank teaches short screenplay writing. He also created the Student Script Database, the tool which will allow directors and writers to pool their talent and is intended to bring the best-written scripts at USC to the screen.

As Executive Director of the Staged Screenplay Reading Series at the Lee Strasberg Theater, and as the Director of the Professional Screenwriting Workshops at SONY Studios, Chindamo developed fourteen feature films which have been produced for the screen. See www.ScreenplayWorkshops.com. Frank also taught at the Gotham Writer’s Workshop and City University of New York. Frank was also a As a VP of Development at two production companies in LA and has worked as a script consultant on numerous projects. See www.imdb.com.

Frank Chindamo received his Film B.F.A. from N.Y.U. and his Screenwriting M.F.A. from Columbia

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Ted Cohen, Vice President, Digital Development & Distribution, EMI Music: As Vice President of Digital Development & Distribution for EMI Music, Ted Cohen oversees worldwide digital business development for this "big five" record company, which includes labels such as Capitol, Virgin, Angel/Blue Note, Parlophone and Chrysalis. Under Cohen’s guidance, EMI has led the industry with its initiatives in new technologies and business models such as digital downloads, online music subscriptions, custom compilations, wireless services, high-definition audio and Internet radio. In addition to seeking out, evaluating and executing business opportunities for the company, Cohen serves as both a strategist and key decision-maker for EMI’s global new media and anti-piracy efforts. He has worked to establish company-wide policies, which have allowed EMI’s artists and labels a substantial advantage in the digital music arena. Cohen served previously as the Executive Vice President of Digital Music Network Inc., where he co-founded and served as Chairman of the Webnoize ’98 & ’99 conferences. He currently chairs MidemNet, an international music/technology conference convened in Cannes each year. Cohen also held senior management positions at both Warner Bros. Records and Philips Media. Additionally, Cohen lead two highly successful new media consulting operations, DMN Consulting and Consulting Adults, attracting clients such as Amazon.com, Microsoft, Universal Studios New Media, DreamWorks Records, Liquid Audio, Wherehouse Records/Checkout.com and several other entertainment, computer and new media organizations. A 25-year industry veteran, Cohen serves on the NARAS (Grammy) Los Angeles chapter Board of Governors, the Board of Directors for the Neil Bogart Memorial Fund, Co-chairs the new media arm of the T.J. Martell Foundation, and lends his time and talents to the Grammy In The Schools Program.

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Richard Doherty is a co-founder and Director of The Envisioneering Group; a two-decade old Seaford, NY Technology Assessment and Market Research Corporation. Before that, for thirteen years, Doherty was the Senior Technology Writer for Electronic Engineering Times, where he remains a guest columnist. Doherty is an electro-physicist who has garnered more than a dozen U.S. patents in computing, communications, medical electronics, high performance tooling and consumer electronics industry sectors along with dozens of international patents. During Doherty's 32 year career he has been Director of the Urban Vehicle Design Group at Pratt Institute, an engineer for Data General Corp., Chief Engineer of Lourdes Industries, Inc., founder and President of Optronic Labs and since 1983, co-founder and Director of The Envisioneering Group. There, he directs laboratory testing of technologies, products and services, oversees publication of the Envisioneering Newsletter, market research reports and provides senior executive counsel on market development and intellectual property protection, portfolio management and licensing opportunities. Doherty's prime focus is on researching and articulating the impact of advanced digital technologies, services, products, industry initiatives and standards efforts on consumers, industry and society. Doherty is a 31 year member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and is active with its Biomedical Engineering, Solid State Circuits Society , Consumer Electronics Society, Broadcast Engineering, Magnetic Technology Society, Technology & Social Policy and other I.E.E.E. societies. This is his eleventh year as a planning director for the International Conference on Consumer Electronics. Doherty is also a member of the Society for Information Display, Society of Motion Picture & Television Engineers and many other technology & professional business industry associations. In addition, Doherty has been a co-chair of, and presently sits on several cross industry standards associations and technical working groups, spanning consumer digital electronics, communications, digital media and computing architecture definition groups. He is called upon by the industry to organize and chair panels at trade conferences and technical symposia more than a dozen times each year. Amongst his many industry awards, Doherty has been cited by the International Television Association for his many years of technology coverage of digital video design and engineering trends, and is the writer most cited by the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment for detailed features on the evolution of America's Digital TV system. Doherty also assisted Dr. Richard Feynman, NASA and Congressional researchers in the Shuttle Challenger accident investigation at the Kennedy Space Center, Johnson Space Center and many NASA contractor sites. In 2003, Doherty was nominated to and accepted a multi-year position on the Presidential Medal of Technology Award Selection Committee, reporting to the White House and Department of Commerce. Acting as an independent resource on the impact of digital and internet technologies on the consumer, society and business, Doherty is quoted frequently for his opinions on new technologies by CNN, CNBC, Fox News and by numerous American and international industry trade and daily business publications, including the Wall Street Journal, NY Times, Washington Post, LA Times, Newsday and the San Jose Mercury News. Doherty is married and resides in Seaford, NY with his wife and two daughters.

Martin Perlmutter, Executive Producer, META-4: Interactive video and multimedia pioneer, Marty Perlmutter has been a producer of award-winning instructional, edutainment and game content for three decades. Perlmutter has consulted to key players at all points of the Convergence compass - telecom, computing, content development - and has a professional network that spans four continents. Perlmutter is widely published, has been a frequent keynoter at new media conferences, helped found and run the San Francisco Multimedia Development Group trade association, and is currently producing broadband content for AOL and learning software for non-profit distribution.

Ralph Simon, Chairman, Mobile Entertainment Forum – Americas & President/CEO, The Mobilium Group:
Ralph Simon is recognized as one of the founders of the modern mobile music and entertainment business in the USA and Europe. He is chairman of the Mobile Entertainment Forum – Americas, the leading advocate for the Mobile Entertainment industry and principal global trade association established to represent the commercial interests of content, application and service providers, and telco operators. Privately, Mr. Simon is President & CEO of The Mobilium Group, the respected mobile strategic advisory firm that guides US and international media companies, networks and brands to grow revenues and market share from mobile content, mobile entertainment properties and technologies. Prior to his involvement in the global mobile entertainment and content business, where he has taken a leading role since its inception, he had a distinguished career in music, music publishing and mobile technology industries. Mr. Simon has proven expertise in strategic company development, content & copyright usage, mobile rights architecture, super-distribution, mobile platforms, copyright usage and mobile business development. He is in a unique position of being able to apply vast knowledge and experience to a nascent industry that is daily expanding existing business paradigms and creating new frontiers. Currently, he advises prominent companies, entertainment properties and artists (including U2) in the US and internationally, on ways to maximize and develop their mobile businesses and create opportunities globally. Last year, he conceived the mobile strategy and organized the mobile messaging layer for the Live 8 world concert event that took place during 11 hours and across 10 cities on July 2, 2005. Over 3bn people attended or watched/listened to the global television, radio and cyber-simulcast that integrated interactive mobile messaging as part of its own content. The overwhelming mobile response from live audiences and distance participants established the validity of cross-platform mobile strategies, which contributed heavily toward convincing the G8 governments to commit $50bn to reduce global poverty. In December 2005, he was named as one of the world’s Top 50 Mobile Executives by the influential Mobile Entertainment Magazine, alongside thought-leaders from companies as diverse as Apple, Nokia, Google, China Mobile, Cingular, Verizon and News Corporation. In 1998, he co-founded and funded the USA & UK’s first ring tone company, Yourmobile/Moviso (today known as Infospace Mobile – the US market leader in mobile aggregation). Before starting the mobile entertainment revolution, he co-founded the Zomba Group and Jive Records – which grew to become the world’s most successful independent record and music publishing company. In the mid-1990s as Executive Vice President of Capitol Records and Blue Note Records, , EMI’s New Media business. Ralph Simon is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in the UK and a member of the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences in the USA. He maintains offices in Los Angeles, London and Berlin.

David Traub, VP Business Development, Vidiva: David earned a Masters in Education
in 1990 from Harvard University, while conducting simultaneous class-work in
interactive cinema and AI-based narrative at the MIT Media Lab. In 1984
he earned his undergraduate degrees in rhetoric and film with honors from the
University of California at Berkeley, concluding with an honor thesis focusing
on the use of film and television in education. His primary focus: the aggregation
and delivery of "social and emotional" and other learning-centric applications/content
via mobile phones, thin clients/PCs, TVs and videogames. He is currently writing the
book: "17 Questions to Why You Are Here" as an introduction to his proprietary
"mythological evaluation tool" that will be an example of such "augmentative"
interfaces. In the real world, David has 20-years of experience as a digital media-oriented business development executive, investor, venture catalyst, and/or board
member to over 35 startups/private equity companies. He has co-raised and
deployed nearly $30 million dollars in support of these ventures. David has created digital media as an co-founder executive and/or executive producer of digital
products across a wide variety of clients such as EMI North America, MCA Records,
Philips/Polydor, Microsoft/ MSN, Apple Computer and many others. He is also an author
of nearly 50 articles and reports on the evolution of the digital domain for trade publications,
professional books and institutional clients; and a speaker who has given nearly 50
forward-looking keynote and other speeches throughout the world for clients such as the EU,
the Swedish and Canadian Governments, TV Globo (Brazil), the National Institute of Film in Denmark,
Viacom, US West, Mercedes/Siebold, The Broadband Content Development Forum and numerous
other economic development agencies and universities.

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San Francisco

Marketing Support
Timothy Pierre, San Francisco, CA

My name is Timothy Alexander Pierre. I was born in Jacksonville, Florida on June 26^th, 1981, and grew up in the Miami area. I spent my formative High School years in the U.S. Virgin Islands living with my Grandparents. It was during this period that I got my first taste of filmmaking. You see my Grandfather was always a gadget man, so he would always buy the latest, greatest, electronic device on the market. One day he brought home one of those large Sony VHS shouldercams, so he could record the special events that he would attend all the time. During that period my Grandfather had to go under knee surgery, so he have me the undertaking of recording these events. Now my Grandfather just did a straight recording method, and when he was done he would then dub copies of the tapes. I figured out that if I used the two decks that we had I could edit the tapes down for time content and take out any glaring mistakes. This was my first exposure to camera work and editing, also it’s the reason I tend to lean towards doing narrative documentaries.

I gave up film after being told by my parents that it wasn’t a “real job”, and decided to study psychology in college. After a year in college I got bored, had no money and decided to join the Army for about four years. One morning during my last year in the Army I woke up to the documentary “the kid stays in the picture”. Robert Evans became a kind-of hero to me and I realized what I wanted to do, I wanted to be a producer. I wanted to be one that brought those great stories to people’s eyes and ears. My passion for making movies returned to an even stronger level than when I was in my youth, and now I work toward building that career that I’ve dreamt about. Currently I’m now doing a mix of school, and I spend a lot of time working freelance on various film and television projects.

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