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ScreenPlayLab Presents at Showbiz Expo 2010

ScreenPlayLab has a booth and is chairing two panels at Showbiz Expo at the Los Angeles Convention Center. Expo sho floor open Saturday/Sunday, April 24-25, 10am to 5pm. Register now.

  • Spec Script Panel, Sunday, April 25, 12:30 to 1:30pm
  • Social Media Panel, Sunday, April 25, 3:30 to 4:30pm

Panel: How to Write and Sell a Spec Script

Sunday, April 25, 12:30 to 1:30pm

How do you write and market the modern spec screenplay? What do writers, buyers and agents think? Format of the presentation is 5-minute introductions then Q&A from the audience moderated by panel chairs Gabrielle Pantera and Robin Rowe.

  • David Boxerbaum
    APA Agency vice president and literary agent
    Boxerbaum represents showrunners down to staff writers in TV and feature screenwriters and directors. He made the Hollywood Reporter's Next Generation Top 35 Under 35 list in 2003. He's run the literary department at Metropolitan Talent Agency. He was a creative exectutive at RKO Pictures. He's worked at Endeavor for partners Ari Greenburg and Rick Rosen, at William Morris Agency for SVP Lee Rosenberg, and for Jerry Bruckheimer Films.
  • Karen Foster
    DreamWorks Animation co-producer How to Train Your Dragon
    Foster produced the Annie-winning half-hour NBC special Secrets of the Furious Five. She's currently producing the half-hour NBC Halloween special Scared Shrekless. Foster joined DreamWorks Animation in 2003 and was a development exec for Sharktale, Madagascar and Over the Hedge. She was a development exec at Disney. She's an animation producer and an expert in what sells in animation.
  • Bonnie MacBird
    Tron screenwriter and co-producer
    MacBird wrote and co-produced the Sci-Fi screenplay Tron while working for Lisberger Studio. Tron became a hit movie for Disney in 1982. Tron 2 will be released on December 17, 2010. MacBird sold the spec scripts called Entice and Consent, Snap Judgements and Secret Master of the Universe to Paramount, Disney, and independent producer Freddie Fields. Secret Master was optioned three times, by three different producers. With partner Jim Shasky she ran the production company Creative License, SkyBird Pictures. She is currently writing a TV pilot on assignment. MacBird was a features development exec at Universal for four years. MacBird is a screenwriting instructor at UCLA Extension.
  • Gabrielle Pantera
    Gosh!TV executive producer
    Entertainment features editor Hollywood Today. Her syndicated column Gabrielle's Book Corner interviews best-selling authors and reviews new books. She's optioned a best-selling novel and co-written the screenplay. She's co-president of the 4,000-member industry association ScreenPlayLab. She's an expert in what's new in books, television and home entertainment. She's a producer, writer and show host.
  • Sascha Rothchild
    Screenwriter and TV producer
    Sascha Rothchild is currently adapting her memoir "How To Get Divorced by 30" into a screenplay for Universal Studios, Marc Platt and Dana Fox producing. Her book "How To Get Divorced by 30" is published by Penguin. She writes the weekly relationship blog "I'm No Expert But..." for Psychology Today Magazine. She's been featured on NPR's This American Life, is on their best-of CD "Hope and Fear," and has appeared in their series for Showtime. She is one of the original performers in the stage show Mortified. She's a television producer and writer.
  • Robin Rowe
    MovieEditor.com president
    Rowe writes for the Motion Picture Editors Guild Magazine, Gosh!TV, and Hollywood Today. He's co-president of the 4,000-member industry association ScreenPlayLab. He's worked for DreamWorks Animation, the BBC, and NBC. He's a producer, writer, technologist and picture editor.

Panel: Social Media for Film and TV

Sunday, April 25, 3:30 to 4:30pm

How is social media is used to launch or build community for TV series and feature films? How do agents, networks and studios discover new TV shows or films using this medium? Format of the presentation is 5-minute introductions then Q&A from the audience moderated by panel chairs Gabrielle Pantera and Robin Rowe.

  • Adam Armus
    NBC-TV Heroes executive producer
    Together with writing partner Kay Foster, Armus has worked on The Practice, Xena, Hercules, Nightstalker, Kevin Hill, Birds of Prey, Glory Days and many TV movies.
  • Jan Coleman
    MTV-TV The Buried Life executive producer
    Coleman is executive producer of the hit inspirational MTV series The Buried Life and manager of the four young men who travel in an old purple bus named Penelope completing a list of 100 Things They Want to Do Before They Die and reaching out to strangers along the way to help them accomplish something on their lists.. Prior to The Buried Life, Coleman was an investment banker.
  • Todd Greene
    Digital Media Guru
    As a social media innovator, Greene has worked for MovieSet.com, mPRm, Buzztone, Addictive Media, Road Tours International, WPP and Omnicom. He's created and executed digital programs for Coca-Cola, Philips, Nestle, Universal, Paramount, Gillette, Disney, Apple and Mattel.
  • Linda Nelson
    Indie Rights Co-founder
    Indie Rights distributes films digitally through iTunes, Hulu, Snag, and Amazon VOD. At Nelson Madison Films she's currently in post-production on Delivered, the first feature film shot on the Red camera to be edited directly in Adobe Premiere CS4/5. With a background in finance, she's worked as an investment banker in the Middle East and Europe. An early adopter of Facebook, she teaches filmmakers how to build audiences for their films starting from the time development starts.
  • Gabrielle Pantera
    Gosh!TV executive producer
    Entertainment features editor Hollywood Today. Her syndicated column Gabrielle's Book Corner interviews best-selling authors and reviews new books. She's optioned a best-selling novel and co-written the screenplay. She's co-president of the 4,000-member industry association ScreenPlayLab. She's an expert in what's new in books, television and home entertainment. She's a producer, writer and show host.
  • Jeff Ragovin
    Buddy Media Chief Revenue Officer
    Buddy Media helped Summit Entertainment use Facebook to promote many of their film releases, including Twilight New Moon, Remember Me and Letters to Juliet. The Buddy Media Platform is a set of tools to enable advertising, PR agencies and brands to easily control social media campaigns. Ragovin previously worked in business development and sales at the search marketing agency Acronym Media.
  • Robin Rowe
    MovieEditor.com president
    Rowe writes for the Motion Picture Editors Guild Magazine, Gosh!TV, and Hollywood Today. He's co-president of the 4,000-member industry association ScreenPlayLab. He's worked for DreamWorks Animation, the BBC, and NBC. He's a producer, writer, technologist and picture editor.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
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Created March 13, 2010, updated April 30, 2010.