Jennifer Adams

Senior Program Associate, Primetime Programming, PBS

Jennifer Adams has been at PBS for 10 years and in the Programming Department for seven. As a Senior Program Associate in the Primetime Programming Department, she is responsible for reviewing Arts and Cultural Programming proposals for possible inclusion in the National Programming Service schedule. She also serves as a main point of contact for producers whose programs have already been accepted for broadcast as one-time specials as well as those at producing public television stations who deliver to PBS the core Arts programming series.

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Steven C.F. Anderson

President & Executive Producer, APL, Anderson Productions

Steve Anderson is an imaginative television producer, production executive, program creator, broadcast journalist and documentary filmmaker. Since the mid-1970's, he has served as a creative force behind many television projects and hundreds of broadcast and cable TV programs of all types.

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Simon Andreae

President & CEO, The Incubator

Simon is a multi award–winning producer and of the most highly regarded executives in the realm of unscripted programming. He has devised and continues to executive produce much of The Incubator’s output, including Surgery Saved My Life, In The Womb, Sex Lies and Hypnosis, and 99 Most Bizarre. He is also an executive producer on the feature documentary In The Shadow of the Moon, in collaboration with Ron Howard and Dox Productions, which won The Audience Award at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival.

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Laura Annalora

Manager, Development & Production, National Geographic Channels International

Laura Annalora joined NGCI in August 2006. As Manager of Development and Production for National Geographic Channels International, Annalora is responsible for reviewing and developing story pitches and proposals for global programming. She serves as the primary Development Executive for vendors in Africa, Australia, Canada, Europe, New Zealand, and the United States. Annalora also manages and coordinates the workflow of the NGCI Development Department.

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Mark Anstendig

Supervising Producer, Production & Programming, VH1

As a Supervising Producer at VH1, Mark Anstendig develops programming for the network and oversees production on a variety of reality series, feature documentaries and specials.

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Daniela Bagliani

Manager, Acquisitions & Coproductions, RTI SPA Mediaset Group

Daniela Bagliani is the Documentary Acquisitions and Co-productions Manager of RTI SpA - Mediaset Group, the largest commercial network in Italy with more than the 43% of the general share in the free television market. She is responsible for acquisition, pre-acquisition and co-production activity, from selection and negotiation until contract review. Working and thinking strategically about the commercial and editorial objectives of all programming agreements and implementing them into the operations of the department, she develops relationships with suppliers, other broadcasters and independent producers, monitors the international market and collects the needs of different slots and channels. Since 2000 Daniela has contributed to the schedule development of the satellite channel MTChannel. She has a degree in International Law and a MBA in Marketing and she’s currently a member of the Board of Directors of both History and Science World Congresses

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Kate Beetham

Executive Producer, BBC

Kate Beetham is an executive producer for documentaries, on the BBC commissioning team. She has a background in production – across both documentaries and specialist factual.

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Caroline Behar

Deputy Head of Acquisitions & Co-Productions, France 5

Caroline Behar, Deputy Head of Acquisitions and Co-productions, joined France 5 in 1995, less than a year after the channel was launched (as La Cinquième). Caroline was first involved with the creation of AITED, the international association of educational and discovery channels, during the development of the association, and its setting up.

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Jessica Berman-Bogdan

President, Global ImageWorks, LLC

President Jessica Berman-Bogdan has been a stock footage professional for over 25 years and credited as Director of Research on many award winning documentaries. Global ImageWorks was honored as a "Top 40 Indy Film Friendly Business of 2007" for its personalized service and unique stock footage. Global ImageWorks stands out as a boutique stock footage company whose catalog is filled with rich images culled from the vaults of filmmakers, cinematographers, journalists, and production companies. Our footage offers views of the world we live in, contemporary and historic, and available in a variety of formats - film, video and Hi-Definition.

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Laverne Berry, Esq.

Attorney, Law Firm of Laverne Berry

Laverne Berry is an entertainment and media business affairs attorney. She was admitted to the bar after having worked as a television producer and media business executive for 18 years. She represents on-air talent, independent producers, television and film production companies and cable networks. Her clients have earned numerous awards, including prestigious film festival awards and Oscar® nominations. Before returning to private practice she was a Director of Legal and Business Affairs for A&E Television Networks. As an executive for Thirteen/WNET, RKO General Television, Avon Books and several independent production companies, she focused on the development, production, distribution and licensing of television programs and related ancillary products, e.g., DVDs, books, CDs and merchandise. For her own media work, Ms. Berry has been recognized with a number of awards, including 2 CINE Golden Eagle® Awards, 2 Emmy® nominations, and 2 grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Ms. Berry has been involved in Alternative Dispute Resolution for more than 12 years. She is a member of the American Arbitration Association's Los Angeles, New York and Boston Commercial Panels and the Federal Communications Panel, as well as the Independent Film and Television Alliance (formerly known as the American Film Marketing Association (AFMA)) arbitration panel and the CPR Panels of Distinguished Neutrals. She is the current president of New York Womem in Film and Television

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Sue Biely

Partner, The Nimble Company

Sue Biely is the Director of Business Development & Social Responsibility and Co-founder of The Nimble Company, a multi-platform media company that creates and manages media brands for the post-tv generation, including the beta interactive community hip hop site, RapSpace.tv.

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Juliet Blake

Senior Vice President Production, National Geographic Channel

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Stephan Bleek

CEO, Framepool AG

Framepool is a European online stock footage collection sourced from independent cinematographers.

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Yvonne Body

Head of Co Productions & Acquisitions, Beyond Distribution

Yvonne joined Beyond Distribution in 2002. Based in Beyond’s London office, she is responsible for sourcing and developing programming from around the world to add to Beyond’s growing catalogue of factual, lifestyle, drama and children’s programming.

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Isabelle Bourduas

Head of Co Productions, Cineflix Productions Inc.

Based in Montreal, Isabelle’s mandate is to establish new working partnerships and co-production opportunities with international partners in Europe, Australia and the U.S. Isabelle oversees all sales and broadcaster relations in Quebec and Sales of 3rd party shows in Canada.

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Richard Bradley

Managing Director, Lion Television UK

Richard is a co-founder of Lion Television, which he began after twelve years as a director/producer and series producer at BBC. At Lion Richard Bradley specialises in both popular and ambitious history, science arts projects. Under his creative leadership, Lion has assembled one of the most widely respected historical and specialist factual programme producing units in the industry with a reputation in the UK, US and Asia for innovative and accessible television.

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Pierre Brogan

Agent, Creative Artists Agency

Pierre Brogan is a television agent with Creative Artists Agency (CAA), a talent and literary agency based in Los Angeles, California with offices in Nashville, New York City, London, and Beijing.. Before joining CAA in 2004, Brogan was a television literary agent at Paradigm. In addition to his day-to-day series television responsibilities, he headed the Alternative Department for the agency, representing Emmy Award®-winning clients on shows such as The Apprentice, American Candidate, Big Brother, The Amazing Race, and Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. He was also instrumental in selling America’s Next Top Model, The Joe Schmoe Show, and Pimp My Ride.

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Madelyn Brudner

Coordinating Producer, truTV

Madelyn Brudner is Coordinating Producer, Current Programming and Specials at truTV. Brudner oversees production on some of the network’s highest rated series including Ocean Force, Suburban Secrets, Murder by the Book and Haunting Evidence. As Coordinating Producer, Brudner works closely with production companies from pilot phase to final delivery, shaping editorial content to ensure that programming is in line with truTV’s branding.

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James Burstall

Chairman & CEO, Leopard Films & Leopardrama

James has a broad range of experience in factual, reality and drama programming. As executive producer, he has devised many formats and series, including Missing, Natural Born Dealers, Zodiac SOS, Cash in the Attic, Thunder Races, The History of House Music, Back to Basics, Running on Empty, Hollywood Religions, Drug Nation, Secret History of Hacking, Cannibal Killer and Snappers.

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Michael Cascio

SVP, Special Programming, National Geographic Channel

Michael Cascio supervises documentary series and specials for the National Geographic Channel (NGC), which he joined in 2004 as senior vice president of production. Cascio has an award-winning background in documentary programming.

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Speaking at (10:00 - 10:30) 30 Mins With... Michael Cascio, National Geographic Channel