The Cannes Film Festival in France is right around the corner!

As you all know Stage 32 has worked directly with and has had an official presence at the Cannes Film Festival Marche du Film for the last 8 years. From education initiatives, partnerships, and parties, Stage 32 always has our finger on the pulse of the world's biggest film festival and market. Also, for the last 8 years Stage 32 has been an official education partner of the Cannes Marche du Film.

We're excited today to announce our Official Stage 32 Cannes 2023 Schedule, as well as our exciting new partnership with Canon!

To RSVP to the Stage 32 + Canon Panel & Party with Academy Award-Nominated, Three time EMMY and BAFTA-winning Filmmaker Marcel Mettelsiefen click here.

If you are attending Cannes:

In the comments section below, let's start the official ROLL CALL. We (and the producers and executives we work with who will be at the fest) are specifically interested in knowing:

1. What dates will you be attending?
2. What brings you to Cannes?
3. What projects do you have screening or are you bringing to the market?
4. Are you planning on attending any workshops or events? If so, which ones?
5. What are your goals during the Cannes Film Festival?
6. Do you have a film screening at the festival? Let us know in the comments section below!

**If you are NOT attending Cannes (and if you WILL be attending):

Stop what you're doing right now, pick up your phone, and go follow @rbwalksintoabar and @stage32 on Instagram and @rbwalksintoabar and @stage32 on Twitter. We will be LIVE storying and tweeting during the entire festival. We're thrilled to bring you to the film industry's largest festival in the world!

We look forward to hearing from you!

RB

Announcing the Official Stage 32 Cannes 2023 Schedule:

Wednesday, May 17, 2023 at 3:00 pm

The Evolution of Storytelling: AI, Virtual Reality, the Metaverse & ChatGPT

You can’t read the news or listen to a program without someone talking about the advancements of technology from Artificial Intelligence, virtual reality, the metaverse, and most recently ChatGPT. Our panel of Stage 32 experts will discuss the evolution of these storytelling mediums and how they will shape the future of the entertainment industry.

Moderator: Kayvan Mashayekh, Producers without Borders

Panelists:

• Sami Apra, CEO of Largo Film (Switzerland)
• Christopher Morrison - Founder, Reality +
• Richard Botto - CEO, Stage 32

Thursday, May 18, 2023 at 12:00 pm

Authentic Stories: the Importance of Diversity & Inclusion in Film and TV

Through a conversation from unique perspectives, this Stage 32 expert panel will explore the importance of representation, equity, and inclusion in film production. As well as, the impact of diverse storytelling on audiences, industry trends, and the business of filmmaking.

Moderator: Martin I. Petrov, Festival Director, World of Film International Glasgow

Panelists:

• Ramfis Myrthil - Producer
• Thien A. Pham - Producer, 3388 Films
• Andrew Vallentine - Director
• Piera Van de Wiel - Producer, Stronger With Music
• Jennifer Lauren - Cherokee Nation Film Office Director

Thursday, May 18, 2023 at 3:00 pm

Canon Presents: Exciting Opportunities for Filmmakers in 2023 + Cocktail Event

Canon is a long-time favorite among filmmakers, empowering them with the necessary tools to tell inspiring and unique stories. Join us in this exclusive panel as we demystify Canon's cutting-edge technology through a captivating conversation with Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Marcel Mettelsiefen. Discover how Marcel wields the camera as a tool to tell remarkable narratives and capture the authenticity of his subjects. Gain invaluable insights into Marcel's approach to storytelling and the art of utilizing Canon's equipment. Following the panel, we will host a cocktail event, providing an opportunity for you to connect with the Canon team and fellow passionate filmmakers.

Moderator: Amanda Toney, Stage 32

Panelists:

• Marcel Mettelsiefen, Academy-Award Nominated, BAFTA-winning Filmmaker

Following the panel Canon will host a cocktail event where you can meet the Canon team and filmmakers. RSVP here.

Friday, May 19, 2023 at 3:00 pm

Today's Film Packaging and Sales/Acquisitions Landscape

As the rise of streaming services continues to impact traditional theatrical distribution deals, the art of packaging films has undergone a significant transformation. Nowadays, what makes a package attractive has evolved. It is crucial to understand who the buyers are and what their motivations will be once a film is completed. In this expert panel, you will gain insights into the current market trends, and how to position your project for success.

Moderator: Dave DeBorde

Panelists:

• Tiffany Boyle - President, Ramo Law
• Viviana Zarragoitia - Financier, VP, Three Point Capital
• Jack Sheehan - President, Archstone Films

Saturday, May 20, 2023 at 3:00 pm

How You or Your Project Can Stand Out in the International Market

The global film market is as inter-connected as ever with local language content seeing massive reach to international audiences. In this Stage 32 expert panel we’ll talk about what opportunities you have internationally as a creative and what the global business landscape looks like.

Moderator: Sara Elizabeth Timmins

Panelists:

• Sidney Chiu - Producer
• Segolene Zimmern, Manager of International Acquisitions
• Alexia Melocchi - Partner, Little Studio Films, Host of The Heart of Show Business

Sunday, May 21, 2023 at 3:00 pm

Producing Film in Today's Market: Opportunities & Challenges in 2023

With the Great Content Gold Rush that has occurred from streamers vying for original content, a producer’s job has become increasingly complicated. From finding the right material, putting together the right package, finding financing and navigating a film’s release there are more opportunities and challenges than ever. This Stage 32 panel of experts will discuss what it’s like to produce a film today.

Moderator: Dave DeBorde

Panelists:

• Matthew Helderman, CEO, Bondit Media Capital
• Kristin Harris - SVP Development and Production, Vertical Entertainment
• Shaked Berenson - Producer
• Miranda Bailey - CEO, Cold Iron Pictures

Monday, May 22, 2023 at 3:00 pm

The Pitch Tank

Watch as four filmmakers compete to pitch their projects to get financed from Untold Capital. If one gets chosen a check will be written LIVE in the pitch tank!

Panelists:

• Alexander Amartei, filmmaker
• Erick Schwertzel, filmmaker
• Christian Filippella, filmmaker
• Samir Srivastava, filmmaker

How to Get Your Badge

If you are planning to attend Cannes 2022, you have several options - festival, Marche du Film live, Marche du Film online and a Platinium All-in-One badge: make sure that you get your badge here.

Please support your fellow creatives! We encourage you to check out our 2023 Cannes Film Festival Panelists:

Sami Apra - CEO, Largo

Sami is the founder and CEO of Largo – a Switzerland-based company that provides data-assisted intelligence to the audio-visual industry. From content analysis and financial forecasts to character & casting analysis and packaging tools, the Largo platform is designed to empower traditional content creation workflows and help producers, distributors, and studios make smarter, more informed decisions. He has a Ph.D. in computer vision from the prestigious Swiss university, EPFL. He has directed two films - “Les bruits des pas” and “L’evasion.” He is also the founder and president of Ouch Film Awards, which is a film festival that takes place in Lausanne.

Christopher Morrison - Founder, Reality +

Christopher is the founder of Reality + a production company whose passion is to tell stories grounded in the real world that have a genre element pressing in from outside our accepted reality.

He is a multi-talented writer and director who has worked on film, theatrical productions, VR, video games, and immersive entertainment on three continents and more than 150 projects. His most recent films include the VR narrative “The Werewolf Experience,” his feature film "The Bellwether," which was released worldwide, and a 360° film he wrote and directed.

His next VR project “Drunk Zombie Duelists” received a grant from the Dutch government and is going into production. He recently added “Narrative Designer” to his credits as he’s written and designed for multiple video games.

Cirque du Soleil called him, “A huge asset to the creative process and he frequently speaks on storytelling in WEB3.0, recently addressing the House of Lords in England and a guest speaker at the LEAP conference in Saudi Arabia.

Richard Botto - CEO, Stage 32

Richard "RB" Botto has created the online platform and marketplace designed to democratize the entertainment industry, Stage 32. By leveling the playing field for all film, television and digital content creators and professionals worldwide, Stage 32 provides networking and training opportunities as well as direct access beyond the gatekeepers.

RB is also a producer whose films have played at dozens of festivals around the world including the Sundance-award-winning feature Another Happy Day, written and directed by Euphoria creator Sam Levinson. He was on the producing team of What Lies Ahead starring Rumer Willis and Emma Dumont, and Rain Beau’s End starring Ed Asner and Sean Young. He is the Executive Producer on projects with Gidden Media and National Lampoon. Through Stage 32 he has helped incubate Chick Fight, starring Malin Akerman and Alec Baldwin, produced by Yale Productions and Ramo Law, and 10-31, produced by Eli Roth and Orion Pictures and Crushed on Tubi.

As a working writer RB sold his original television series to a mini-major studio and attached an A-list showrunner from Apple at the helm. He works on active writing assignments and has sold two feature film scripts.

As an actor, he began his career as a theater actor in New York and his latest film On the Corner of Ego and Desire premiered at the Raindance Film Festival.

Additionally, RB's #1 best-selling book Crowdsourcing For Filmmakers: Indie Film and the Power of the Crowd, was published by Routledge under the American Film Market Presents banner, is available on Amazon and Audible, where it has garnered over 100 5-star reviews.

RB has been a keynote speaker and panelist all over the world at such festivals and conferences as the Cannes Film Festival (France), American Film Market (US), Tribeca Film Festival (US), Austin Film Festival (US), SXSW (US), Cinequest (US), Winston Baker (US), Hollyshorts Film Festival (US), Raindance Film Festival (UK), Hamburg Film Fest (Germany), Trinidad & Tobago Film Commission (Trinidad), Fest Festival (Portugal), Black Nights Film Festival (Estonia) and Harvard (US) on the business of the entertainment industry.

Ramfis Myrthil - Director and Producer

Ramfis Myrthil is an award-winning filmmaker, producer and avid story-teller from New York City. Born to Haitian immigrants, he intimately understands the perils of existing as a person of color in America and has made it his life’s work and journey to give voice to the voiceless. His films explore the experiences of people of color, women, and the LGBTQ community––edifying themes of passion, integrity and authenticity in all stories told.

As a founding partner and President of Beast of the East Productions (BOTEP), the highlights of Ramfis’ career are ever-growing. He had the privilege to produce the Mary Pickford biopic “Why Not Choose Love: A Mary Pickford Manifesto,” and was recently accepted in the 2018 Sundance Film Festival with the film, “A Boy. A Girl. A Dream.” starring Meagan Good and Omari Hardwick. After ranking in the top 18 films at Sundance Film Festival, “A Boy. A Girl. A Dream.” earned national distribution with Samuel Goldwyn Films and debuted on Amazon Prime and STARZ network in 2019.

Ramfis also had his first film, “Love and the Small Print,” debut at the Cannes Film Festival, and other projects of his have been featured in Shorts International and 40+ other festivals around the world.

Thien A. Pham - Founder, 3388 Films

For almost 2 decades, Thien A. Pham has been in the entertainment industry with now over 100 projects to his credit and founded 3388 Films to meet the growing market demand for quality in-language media content. 3388 Films is a production and distribution company with proven experience in more than 20 different markets & languages and specialized in Asian and Southeast Asian film and media content. 3388 Films is a champion of underrepresented and underserved independent and international content creators. Its mission is to create with intention and to connect diverse media & film content to global audiences.

Andrew Vallentine - Director

Andrew Vallentine most recently directed THE MATTACHINE FAMILY, produced by Zach Braff. He draws his creative inspiration from the forged-in-fire experience of being a dyslexic gay kid in small town Michigan. What was once his shame he now considers his greatest strengths. Andrew has developed content with Amy Baer at Gidden Media, Tyra Banks with Bankable, and most recently has been hard at work developing a WWII series based on the newly discovered hundreds of love letters sent between two gay British soldiers in the 1940s. He is working to bring this remarkable true story to life with Brian Volk-Weiss at the Nacelle Company. He has worked with recording artists like Charlie Puth and Tritonal and popular media personalities like Patrick Starrr and Joey Graceffa. He has created commercial and branded content for Mercedes-Benz, MAC Cosmetics, Sephora, The Department of Veterans Affairs, The Ad Council, Goodwill and Major League Baseball. Andy's combined content has been viewed over 1 Billion times.

Piera Van de Wiel - Producer, Stronger With Music

Piera Van de Wiel is an LGBTQI+ Producer, Singer-Songwriter, and Actor. She is also the founder of her company, Stronger With Music. Her work is founded on social impact, and she has partnered with global NGOs and the United Nations Spotlight Initiative. Her project USED was mentioned in the House of Lords at the Domestic Abuse Bill and also featured on CBS News and NBC News. STRIP CLARA won multiple Best Short Film awards, including Best Short Film at the London TV and Film Awards, and Piera was nominated for Best Actress at Golden Door International Film Festival. Piera was also named one of the Top 15 Artists Using Music to Promote Human Rights, alongside Bono, Sting, and Alicia Keys.

Jennifer Lauren - Cherokee Nation Film Office Director

Jennifer Loren is a multiple Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and the director of Cherokee Nation Film Office and Original Content. In 2014, Jennifer began working for her tribe, where she co-created and hosts the highly acclaimed docuseries “Osiyo, Voices of the Cherokee People,” now in production on Season 8.

In 2019, Jennifer helped the Cherokee Nation create and roll out the first certified Native American film commission to open in the United States, the Cherokee Nation Film Office. In 2020, Jennifer oversaw the buildout of a virtual production soundstage in the Cherokee Nation and in 2021 the CNFO accomplished yet another groundbreaking feat by offering the first-ever tribal film incentive program.

Jennifer continues to serve as director of the CNFO & Original Content. Recently, she was named an Oklahoma Film ICON by deadCenter Film, as well as Woman of the Year by Tulsa YWCA and the Tulsa Mayor’s Office, as well as a Great Plains Distinguished Lecturer by Tulsa Press Club.

In 2022, Jennifer began expanding original content for Cherokee Nation, producing feature-length documentaries and introducing a development branch to bring more Cherokee stories to mainstream media.

The mission of the Cherokee Nation Film Office is to increase the presence of Native Americans in every level of the film and television industries, while creating economic opportunities and jobs in the Cherokee Nation – a 14-county reservation area in northeast Oklahoma. CNFO also created and maintains unique, all-inclusive talent, crew and consulting online directories featuring Native American actors, extras, voice actors, crew, cultural experts and other industry resources.

Marcel Mettelsiefen - Academy Nominated, Emmy & BAFTA winning filmmaker

Marcel Mettelsiefen is a multi award-winning director, camera operator, photographer and producer. In 2017, Mettelsiefen was nominated for an Academy Award® in the Best Documentary Short Subject category for Watani: My Homeland at the 89th Academy Awards. He also won three EMMY Awards and two BAFTA, among other recognition.

His films on the Syrian civil war such as Syria: Children on the Frontline (2014), Children on the Frontline: The Escape(2016) and Watani: My Homeland (2016) have earned him critical appraisal and recognition.

Mettelsiefen studied political science and medicine at Humboldt University in Berlin. In his twenties, he worked as a photo-journalist, and has reported from throughout the Middle East and Afghanistan. He is the co-founder of the magazine, Zenith, one of the leading publications on the Middle East and the Arab world in Germany.

Since 2011, Mettelsiefen has been covering the Arab Spring and began reporting from within Syria in April 2011. Since then he has filmed and photographed within Syria more than twenty-five times. It was in Syria that he began documentary film-making. His documentaries from Syria have been aired on ARD, ZDF, Channel4, CNN, Al Jazeera and Canal+, ARTE and others.

Together with Mayte Carrasco (co-director) and Stephen Ellis (editor) he recently finished Afghanistan, the Wounded Land, a 4x52 Documentary Series, In co production with ARTE, NDR and Al Jazeera.

Mettelsiefen is co-owner and chairman of production company Unscrypt.

Tiffany Boyle - President, Ramo Law

For more than 10 years, Tiffany Boyle has leveraged her business-oriented sales and packaging skills to bring hundreds of films and documentaries to fruition. Through her critical review of content and strategic use of Ramo Law resources, Tiffany creates successful content packaging that bridges the needs of both client and industry demands.

Tiffany connects filmmakers with producers, co-producers, executive producers, co-finance partners, distributors, agencies and other industry representatives. She has brought in financing or leading sales on films such as Paul Schrader's ”The Card Counter,” Executive Produced ”Joyland,” the first official Pakistani selection in the 2022 Cannes Film Festival and winner of the Un Certain Regard Jury Prize, and serviced financing and sales on romantic crime ”Die in a Gunfight”; she led the sales and packaging for “Initiation” (SXSW 2020) and ”One of These Days” (Berlin 2020); and she recently served as Executive Producer on films including, ”Line of Duty” starring Aaron Eckhart, bringing in financing in post, “Chick Fight,” which she developed from the script stage, brought in the producer, director and half of the financing, “Mama Bears,” where she brought in financial donations to the film as well as WME to represent and find distribution for the film, and “Borderland” starring Felicity Jones, currently in post-production.

Experienced with project budgets ranging from micro-sized to $30 million, Tiffany has helped to establish and expand high-value sales and packaging resources, uniquely accessed outside of the traditional management company and agency model, since joining Ramo Law in 2009. With this experience, she has been able to help foreign production companies and investors create a foothold in the US marketplace.

Viviana Zarragoitia - Vice President, Three Point Capital

Viviana Zarragoitia is the Vice President of Three Point Capital. She began her career in the entertainment industry working in production accounting at Millennium Films and Bold Films.

She then spent 5 years at Lionsgate, where she started working in the accounting department and segued into the finance division, specifically, profit participation. While working in profit participation, she oversaw the preparation of multi-million dollar film and television distribution deals. She was then promoted to the group's audit division, where she managed film and television royalty audits of producers’ profit participation statements.

Almost a decade ago she joined Three Point Capital, a boutique firm that specializes in senior lending on film and television projects. While at Three Point Capital, Viviana has been involved in the financing of over 100 independent films, and worked with such producers as Cassian Elwes, Rob Barnum, Anthony Bregman, James Schamus, Aaron Gilbert, Kimberly Steward, Nicolas Chartier and Kevin Frakes, among others.

As Vice President, Viviana closes the financing on every film that the company is involved in, as well as manages the company's operations in its satellite offices (Ohio, Kentucky and Louisiana). Viviana has received over a dozen Executive Producers credits on titles she has financed.

She graduated Cum Laude with a double-major in Business and English from Loyola Marymount University.

Jack Sheehan - President, Archstone Films

Jack Sheehan had stints at Sony and Universal before entering the WME mailroom and getting accepted into the storied Agent Trainee Program in the Motion Picture group. Jack then joined Lotus Entertainment where he rose to Vice President Sales and Acquisitions and handled deals on films such as Halle Berry’s “Kidnap”, Keanu Reeves’ “Replicas”, and “Z for Zachariah” with Chris Pine & Margot Robbie. From there he was brought on to Archstone as President of Worldwide Sales & Development where he helps the team build out a slate of films and series and runs their sales and acquisitions businesses.

Sidney Chiu - Producer

With a focus on films with international appeal, Sidney Chiu’s producing credits include LOVE JACKED, a Canada South African romantic comedy co-production starring Amber West and Keith David – winner of the Best Narrative Feature at the Pan African Film Festival (Los Angeles). COCONUT HERO a Canada German co-production with Six Island Productions and UFA Fiction directed by Florian Cossen and Lola nominated, winner of the Best Film in Focus at the Zurich Film Festival, BANG BANG BABY starring Jane Levy, and Peter Stormare for Scythia Films winner of the Claude Jutra Award at the Toronto International Film Festival. Sidney was also the Production Manager on the Mandarin romantic comedy FINDING MR RIGHT, which grossed over 80 Million USD. THREE DAYS IN HAVANA starring Gil Bellows directed by Tony Pantages and Gil Bellows, shot in Havana Cuba with E1 distributing in Canada. Sidney’s first produced feature entitled A NIGHT FOR DYING TIGERS written / directed by Terry Miles premiered at TIFF.

Alexia Melocchi - Partner, Little Studio Films, Host of The Heart of Show Business

Alexia Melocchi is a partner in Little Studio Films and for over two decades has produced and sold award winning movies, documentaries and shorts, often partnering with emerging filmmakers she has personally discovered and mentored.

Latest films by Little Film Studios are THE PANTANI AFFAIR which is with Amazon Studios Europe, A SOUL JOURNEY (Palm Springs International Film Festival and winner of URBANWORLD) and the upcoming Mini Series "THE MONKEY CLUB" with Oscar winner writer/producer Ron Bass.

They also partially financed RIDE ABOVE directed by Christian Duguay, THE DESPERATE HOUR starring Naomi Watts, and WRONG TURN.

In June 2020, Alexia signed a representation and development agreement with writer Seoras Wallace after connecting through Stage 32. Alexia says, "I would have never found him had it not been for Stage 32." Read the full story here.

Alexia has acquired on behalf of her international distributor clients, film and television shows from all over the world for release in the Middle East, Italy, Greece, Spain, Canada, South America and Australia.

Her clients have bought and partially financed films such as LA LA LAND, PEPPERMINT, THE BOY, TWILIGHT, TEEN SPIRIT AND THE BANKER. She is the host of THE HEART OF SHOW BUSINESS podcast. Her company Little Studio Films acted as the sales representative for a DURAN DURAN documentary which sold in every major international territory and received a theatrical release, SERVICE TO MAN released through Entertainment Studios co- produced with Joel Zwick, SOL DE MEDIANOCHE released on HBO.

She is fluent in five languages (Italian, Greek, French, Spanish and English), a personal asset that has allowed her to be involved in the financing and distribution of movies that have earned nearly $1 Billion dollars in box office returns worldwide. Always in the know of trends in film and television, she attends all major film festivals in the United States and internationally (CANNES, NATPE, BERLIN, VENICE, TORONTO, AFM, MIPTV) and has been frequently invited as an expert panelist on the Film Business at high profile film and television conventions.

Segolene Zimmern, International Acquisitions Manager

Segolene Zimmern is the former Manager of International Acquisitions at the streaming platform Tubi TV, which is owned by FOX.

Recently, Tubi acquired the feature film CRUSHED from a writer who was discovered through Stage 32. The project premiered on Tubi in April.

Previously, Segolene worked at Miramax selling projects such as Guy Ritchie's THE GENTLEMEN at Cannes and other film festivals. Prior to Miramax, she also worked in film development and production, working on the Nicolas Cage thriller MANDY produced by Elijah Wood, and the comic book adaptation I KILL GIANTS starring Zoe Saldana.

Matthew Helderman, CEO, Bondit Media Capital

Matthew Helderman is the CEO and co-founder of BondIt Media Capital and Buffalo 8. Helderman founded Buffalo 8 in 2010, while an undergrad student at Lake Forest College. Buffalo 8 has since premiered projects at Sundance, SXSW, and Berlin, as well as producing the Netflix original film "Rodney King" directed by Spike Lee and the global Netflix hit "Conversations With a Killer: Jeffrey Dahmer" directed by Emmy winner Joe Berlinger.

In 2013, he co-founded BondIt Media Capital and has led BondIt in the deployment of over $250M of capital in over 400+ film, television, and media opportunities, while raising $30M of equity and debt for a partial sale to public traded Accord Financial (TSX: ACD) in addition to expanding the company's credit facility to $75M in 2020 with Texas based hedge fund Revere Capital.

BondIt projects include Oscar nominated Loving Vincent, the Roland Emerich directed war epic Midway, the Indie Spirit winner The Peanut Butter Falcon, and projects Robert De Niro, Bruce Willis, John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Nicolas Cage, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Liam Neeson, Mel Gibson, Kevin James, Morgan Freeman, Jason Sudeikis, Kevin Smith, and Samuel L. Jackson resulting in over $500M+ of worldwide box office performances.

Helderman also co-managed the acquisition of 30-year-old entertainment payroll firm, ABS Payroll in 2017 and today serves as an Executive Director, Partner, and Board Member having overseen the sale of the business to the largest PEO provider in the United States, Vensure Employer Services.

Helderman graduated from Lake Forest College with a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, has been a featured TED speaker, profiled in the New York Times, and is a member of YPO.

Kristin Harris - SVP Development and Production, Vertical Entertainment

Kristin Harris has spent nearly two decades working across development, production, acquisitions and distribution. She is currently the SVP of Production & Development at Vertical Entertainment. She has held key acquisition, development, and production roles at Good Deed Entertainment, Starz Media, Overture Films, and Cinedigm Entertainment Group. Notable releases that she was involved include Short Term 12, Meadowland, The Men Who Stare at Goats, Sunshine Cleaning, Last Chance Harvey, Loving Vincent, The Visitor and Masters of Horror.

Kristin has spent time teaching at UCLA Extension, and maintains an active speaking and guest lecturing schedule, having participated in panels, mentorship programs and events at SXSW, Cannes, and LAFF. She is an alumna of UCLA where she earned her bachelor’s degree in English Literature

Shaked Berenson - Producer

Shaked Berenson is a producer of over 30 films and serves on the board of the Independent Film and Television Alliance, alongside members Paul Hertzberg, Roger Corman, and Avi Lerner.

He was the Co-Founder and COO of Epic Pictures, a film, production financing and sales company which acquired the Horror site, Dread Central, an online publication which reviews all things horror. The acquisition created the Dread Originals horror banner for Epic.

Prior to Epic Pictures Group, Berenson served as Renegade Pictures’ Director of Sales as well as the Director of Technology and International Relations for the Giffoni Hollywood Film Festival.

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