Viola Davis, Seth MacFarlane Among Speakers at Produced By Conference 2022
thewrap.com; and “Hustle and Flow” producer Stephanie Allain (Homegrown Pictures).Also attending will be Shondaland creative partner Betsy Beers; Funny or Die CEO Mike Farah; UTA Co-Head of Media Rights Jason Richman; Mark Kimsey, co-CEO of Electromagnetic Productions; actor and producer Aml Ameen.
More featured speakers will be announced in the coming weeks.Per the official description, Produced By Conference 2022 “will feature panels, Q&As, a networking reception, its ever-popular Mentoring Roundtables, and the return of the Pitch Perfect session, during which a handful of pre-selected attendees pitch their projects live in front of an audience of leading producers and executives.”See the list of confirmed speakers and mentors below:CONFIRMED SPEAKERSStephanie Allain (Homegrown Pictures, Owner; Hustle & Flow, Dear White People)Aml Ameen (Executive Producer/ Actor – The Porter; Actor – I May Destroy You; Producer/ Actor – Boxing Day)Trevor Baker (Producer/Editor – Twilight Zone, Outer Range, Castle Rock)Amanda Beggs (CAS, Production Sound Mixer – Lady Bird, Finding Ohana, Legion, Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story)Betsy Beers (Creative Partner, Shondaland)Xavier Bernasconi (Visual Effects Supervisor, DNEG)Rick Champagne (Industry Strategy and Marketing, Media & Entertainment, NVIDIA)Viola Davis (CEO and Co-Founder, JuVee Productions; The First Lady)Mike Farah (CEO, Funny or Die)Marsha Greene (Executive Producer, Co-Creator and Showrunner, The Porter; Ten Days In The Valley, Mary Kills People)Erica Huggins (President, Fuzzy Door; The End Is Nye, Books of Blood, The Spy Who Dumped Me)Steve Jelley (Co-CEO, Dimension)Valerie Johnson-Redrow (Virtual Production Producer, Monolith)Jennifer Kawaja (Executive Producer, Sienna Films/Sphere.
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