Conferences/Seminars

We have been featured in and/or produced conferences, seminars and festivals all over the country.  The creative presentation and exploration of ideas is essential to expand our perspective and enlighten our product.  The best way to learn, is to teach.
   
JUSTICE... for all?
14th Annual City of the Angels Film Festival
Directors Guild of America, Los Angeles, CA
October 25-28, 2007
Features, documentaries, shorts, seminars and panels for people with a passion to explore the life of the spirit in the art of the cinema. Sponsor, Executive Committee, Panelist/Moderator, Web Producer, Video Production
HEROES: What Price Glory?
13th Annual City of the Angels Film Festival
Directors Guild of America, Los Angeles, CA
October 19-22, 2006
Features, documentaries, shorts, seminars and panels for people with a passion to explore the life of the spirit in the art of the cinema. Sponsor, Executive Committee, Panelist/Moderator, Web Producer, Video Production
Divine Comedy
12th Annual City of the Angels Film Festival
Directors Guild of America, Los Angeles, CA
October 21-23, 2005
Features, documentaries, shorts, seminars and panels for people with a passion to explore the life of the spirit in the art of the cinema. Sponsor, Executive Committee, Web Producer, Video Production
Reel Myths
10th Anniversary City of the Angels Film Festival
Directors Guild of America, Los Angeles, CA
October 22-24, 2004

Features, documentaries, shorts, seminars and panels for people with a passion to explore the life of the spirit in the art of the cinema. Sponsor, Executive Committee, Web Producer, Video Production
Revelations / Revolutions
10th Annual City of the Angels Film Festival
Directors Guild of America, Los Angeles, CA
October 23-26, 2003
Films, selected by online polling, representing the most revolutionary or revelatory from each decade in the first century of cinema, followed by seminars and panels exploring their impact and contemporary relevance.
Sponsor, Executive Committee, Web Producer
American Dreams
9th Annual City of the Angels Film Festival
Directors Guild of America, Los Angeles, CA
October 31-November 3, 2002
Features, documentaries, shorts, seminars and panels for people with a passion to explore the life of the spirit in the art of the cinema.
Sponsor, Executive Committee, Web Producer, Video Production
Angel Awards - Excellence In Media
February, 2002
Entries from over 20 countries entered in television, art, books, radio, stage plays, motion pictures, videos and other creative forms of communication.  The Angel Awards celebrate quality projects with the highest "moral, spiritual, ethical or social impact." 
Interntional Competition Judge, Finals
Internet Strategies...
National Catholic Council for Hispanic Ministry, Annual Membership Meeting, Irvine, CA
November 9, 2001
A half day exploration of internet strategies for 65 non-profit organizations.  Practical solutions for today and projections of future technologies. Keynote Speaker
Touches of Evil
8th Annual City of the Angels Film Festival
Directors Guild of America, Los Angeles, CA
October 25-28, 2001
Features, documentaries, shorts, seminars and panels for people with a passion to explore the life of the spirit in the art of the cinema.
Sponsor, Planning Committee, Web Producer, Video Production
Roadtrip!  Moving With The Spirit
7th Annual City of the Angels Film Festival
Directors Guild of America, Los Angeles, CA
November 10-12, 2000
Features, documentaries, shorts, seminars and panels for people with a passion to explore the life of the spirit in the art of the cinema.
Sponsor, Planning Committee, Web Producer
Embracing Apocalypse: 
Visions of Faith & Fear
6th Annual City of the Angels Film Festival
Directors Guild of America, Los Angeles, CA
November 5-7, 1999
Features, documentaries, shorts, seminars and panels for people with a passion to explore the life of the spirit in the art of the cinema.
Sponsor, Web Producer
The Internet and Advertising: Boom, Bust, or Babylon
10th District Summer Advertising Leadership Conference, East Texas
August 21-23, 1997
An exploration of the Internet, its paradigms, methods and strategies that are changing the practice and business of advertising.
Keynote Speaker
Internet Conference '96
The Learning Annex, Los Angeles, CA
November 2, 1996
A full day examining the skills and talents required as the rapid deployment of interactive technologies changes the face of business, art, and education.
Keynote Speaker
Creating Interactive Media:  Design, Production, Distribution
Portland, OR
June 8-9, 1996
An intensive, comprehensive, immersive 2-day seminar for interactive professionals of the Northwest.
Co-producer, Instructor
IICS Interactive Summit Awards & Conference
Lake Tahoe, CA
October 1995
The first creative conference and standards based awards program in new media designed, produced, judged and attended by working professionals in the expanding universe of interactive communications.  Sponsored by the International Interactive Communications Society.
Co-producer, Host
New Media Day
National Television Academy of Arts & Sciences, Los Angeles, CA
July 22. 1995
A full day of panels for the television industry, covering the transition from linear to non-linear entertainment and what the future may hold.
Co-producer, Moderator
Superhighway to Interactivity:
Hollywood's Place In the Interactive Future
National Association of Television Program Executives (NATPE), Las Vegas, NV
1995
How will Hollywood adapt to the advent of New Media technologies?  What businesses will be threatened and what new opportunities will be created?
Host, Moderator
Creating for the New Media
NewMedia Expo, Los Angeles Convention Center
March 1995
Speaker
Interactive Creation:  A Road Map for the Hollywood Professional
UCLA Extension
1994-1996
The first course designed to help entertainment industry professionals take their existing skill sets and develop new ones to move into the emerging technologies that will shape the industry in the new millennium.
Instructor
Interactive Creation / 
Creative Interaction
UCLA Campus, Los Angeles, CA
August, 1993
An all day seminar sponsored by IBM, Apple, WGA, IICS/LA, UCLA Extension.  The first ever symposium to explore the creative process and aesthetics of non-linear story telling.
Co-producer, Moderator.
The Life of the Spirit in the
Art of the Cinema
Regent University
1990
A two day seminar dissecting the nexus of art, business and spirituality in the entertainment business.
Speaker
The Business of Entertainment
University of Iowa
November, 1982
A two day conversation with undergaduate/graduate students in Film, Broadcasting, and the International Writers Workshop:  The creative climate and business realitites of Hollywood.
Speaker
Refocus: An International Festival
of Film, Photography & Video
University of Iowa
1973, 1974, 1975, 1976
The largest student-run festival in the country.  A seminal event in the subsequent proliferation of film festivals.  Hollywood premieres, underground masterpieces and seminars in an atmosphere of open exchange and creative expansion.  Guests included: Robert Altman, Dede Allen, Tony Bill, Anthony Burgess, Frank Capra, Linwood Dunn, Conrad Hall, Claude Jutra, Nicholas Meyer, J. J. Murphy, Alan J. Pakula, Sydney Pollack, Robert Redford.
Festival Director, Moderator, Competition Judge

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