Date: Saturday, October 25, 2008
Time: 1:00 pm - 4 pm
Location: (Former MGM Studio) now the Yahoo! Center Community Room at 2500 Broadway Ave.(at Colorado) in Santa Monica. Plenty of street parking plus in building with our validation. Parking is on P-1, P2 and P3 of the Yahoo! Center garage. The parking garage may be entered via Broadway or Colorado Avenues.
A Film Music Panel Presenting and Discussing the Acquisition and Use of Independent Music for Film & TV with emphasis on Indie Films Price: LAWIM Members $10, Non Members $15 - Prepay online at www.lawim.com - Payment of $20 at the door accepted, space permitting, room holds maximum of 80 persons
MODERATOR: Ritch Esra - (The Film and Television Music Guide, Music Business Registry)
PANELISTS:
Penelope Spheeris - Film Director
Jennifer Yeko - Music Supervisor (True Talent Management)
Charlyn Bernal - Assoc. Director Film & TV Music ASCAP
Robert A. Case - Publisher (New Pants Music and Old Pants Music)
Allison Wright Clark - Music Supervisor
Amy Salko Robertson - Film Producer
AMONG THE TOPICS TO BE COVERED:
Getting the right composer and the right price
Using music supervisors and contractors
Music Libraries: new business models to consider
Legal elements of music use, copyright and the clearance procedures
Budget and business considerations including How to Get Paid!
Technical considerations of video, digital and film
Use of internet and website tools
Distribution and marketing strategies
Union contracts for very low budget films
Resources for making the connection between composers, songwriters and filmmakers
RITCH ESRA - Moderator
Since 1992, Ritch Esra and Stephen Trumbull have been running the Music Business Registry which includes The A&R Registry, The Publisher Registry, The Music Business Attorney Registry, The Record Producer Directory and The Film and Television Music Guide. “The directories give everyone vital, accurate and the most up to date information they need to contact the entire A&R, music, publishing, legal and film/TV music communities," says Ritch. “Each directory tells you how to reach these industry veterans by regular mail, E-mail (including web sites), direct dial telephone and fax. Additionally, we provide the exact title, street address, the name of their assistant and the style of music that each executive deals with. There's no directory of this kind anywhere in the world."
Ritch started out as a promotion coordinator for A&M Records in Los Angeles in 1980-81. Ritch was director of West Coast A&R for Arista Records. He signed The Thompson Twins to their US Deal as well as Mara Getz. He worked extensively with the publishing and songwriting communities for material for Whitney Houston, Aretha Franklin, Dionne Warwick, Melissa Manchester, Tanya Tucker, Jennifer Warnes and Jermaine Jackson. He also coordinated music for the Ghostbusters and Perfect soundtracks. He produced the award-winning educational video for artists and musicians, “How to Get a Record Deal" and much more.
From 1987 to the present, Ritch has been the chief instructor at the Trebas Institute of Recording Arts in Los Angeles, as well as at UCLA Extension, USC, Musicians Institute and SAE teaching several courses including: A&R - The Heartbeat of the Record Company, which focused on the artist signing policies of major and independent record labels; Music Business Overview - a course designed to give students an understanding of the many aspects of the Music Industry. He was a member of the board of advisors for the Department of Performing Arts at UCLA for 3 years 1990 - 1993, and initiated full day seminars and discussion panels on the music business as well as created new course ideas and methods for expanding programs to keep students enrolled in the UCLA Extension program.
PENELOPE SPHEERIS - Film Director
She admits that she has two distinct careers, one where she does mainstream Hollywood films like Wayne's World, The Beverly Hillbillies, The Little Rascals and the other, where she does independent music themed documentaries like the Decline of Western Civilization films. She studied psychobiology (studying how the brain reacts to external forces) and film in college, eventually attending the film program at UCLA. After college, she producedshort and feature length films directed by comic Albert Brooks, some of which were shown during the first season of Saturday Night Live (1975). She was the oldest of four children. She often had to look after her siblings because her dad was killed when she was seven and her mom worked several jobs. She often chooses to interview musicians with troubled backgrounds because she feels her background was just as troubled. Declined the offer to direct This Is Spinal Tap (1984), because she thought you couldn't make fun of Heavy Metal music. “The Decline of Western Civilization (1981) was financed by two businessmen from the Valley who wanted to finance a porn movie. They had no idea I was going in to pitch a punk rock movie. I generally think about myself as someone who studies human behavior and is trying to figure out what the hell is going on in our current society. If I can leave any film that helps define a certain time after I'm dead then that's great."[On why she does documentaries about metal and punk music] “I mean, look, you don't see me making documentaries on Britney Spears, you know what I mean? Sweetheart of a little girl, you know. Or Madonna. That's not my thing. I just like this harder edge stuff. That's just me."
JENNIFER YEKO - Talent Manager & Music Supervisor
Jennifer Yeko has been in personal music management for over ten years, specializing in growing the careers of independent artists and bands and licensing their music for film and television. Her background in entertainment and music includes work for Variety Magazine, Maverick Records, EMI Music, Sony Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Radio City Music Hall Productions, as well as several music web sites and personal management firms. With this experience, she started True Talent Management 10 years ago to promote talented musicians and bands who might otherwise be overlooked by the major label system. Jennifer brings her love of music, experience, and enthusiasm to her role as President of True Talent Management, and the success has followed. She has placed her clients' material in over 50 film and television projects, including hit television shows such as “Sex and the City," “The OC," “Laguna Beach," “Ghost Whisperer," “Pepper Dennis," “Windfall," “Reunion," “Boston Public," “North Shore," Comedy Central, “One Tree Hill," “Summerland," “Dawson's Creek," “Party of Five," “Roswell" and “MTV/The Real World."
As a promoter, Jennifer has worked with a wide range of artists and music genres, ranging from Top 40 and pop to modern rock and classical. She has produced and managed major events, such as “ShowBiz Expo" for which she secured over 200 speakers including former Vice President Al Gore. Jennifer received her Bachelor of Science degree in Marketing from Fairfield University in Connecticut. She is a member of The Recording Academy, the National Association of Recording Industry Professionals (NARIP), and has served as a Director At Large for American Women in Radio & Television. She has recently been featured in The New York Times, Billboard magazine, The Hollywood Reporter, Music Connection and RowFax and is a frequent speaker on industry panels.
CHARLYN BERNAL - Associate Director of Film & TV Music for ASCAP Charlyn works directly with ASCAP's composer, songwriter and publisher members who have music and or lyrics in a film, television program or series as well as assisting production companies with cue sheets and setting up an ASCAP publishing company. She supplies publisher information for licensing music, researches music cue sheets for distribution and enjoys connecting production companies with composers and songwriters for their projects. Prior to ASCAP, this former graduate of USC's Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television Program has worked on several film and television projects as a composer, orchestrator and sound designer. Some of her credits include Jeepers Creepers, Love Stinks, Providence, The West Wing, Another Pretty Face, The Drew Carey Show, Early Edition, 413 Hope Street, The Tom Show, The Ellen Show, Maggie Winters, Cupid, Roswell, Once and Again, Two of a Kind, Felicity, It's Like You Know, Sportsnight, Boomtown, Clubhouse and the Emmy nominated Showtime series Odyssey 5.
ROBERT A. CASE - Music Publisher -President of New Pants Publishing, Inc. (ASCAP) and Old Pants Publishing, Inc. (BMI). A graduate of the Colorado Institute of Art, Denver, Colorado in the USA with an Associates Degree in Business with an emphasis in Music and Video Business, he completed studies at Community College of Denver in Business Administration and Marketing. Mr. Case's songwriter's songs have appeared in TV shows placements including Fox Sports, NBC, the CBS/VHI Primetime show Love Monkey, One Life to Live on ABC Daytime, the Soap Network and South Park on Comedy Central in the US and Internationally in Canada, Mexico, Europe, and Asia. Mr. Case and companies are proud members of ASCAP, BMI, SESAC, ACM- Academy of Country Music, The Recording Academy (Grammy), NATPE- National Association of Television Program Executives, The Association of Independent Music Publishers, GMA Gospel Music Assoc. CMA Country Music Association, National Assoc. Of Music Education, Colorado Film and Video Association, the Music Teachers National Association and Associate member of the American Bar Association. Mr. Case has produced and released several CDs through the years that have been on the Grammy Entry List in 30 separate categories including Album of the Year, Rock Album of the Year, Pop Album of the Year and Country Album of the Year. Mr. Case has appeared as a speaker Internationally and Nationally on a multitude of music panels and workshops including William Patterson University, New Jersey, Cape May Songwriter Conference, Cape May, New Jersey, www.songsalive.org Music Publishing Chapter Workshops, Sydney, Australia, Las Vegas, Austin, Texas, Huntsville, AL, Los Angeles, www.Songnet.org Music Publishing Workshops Los Angeles, The Taxi Road Rally Los Angeles, The Dallas Songwriters Association A&R Workshop, Atlantis Music Conference, Vegas Music Conference, Dewey Beach Music Conference The Millennium Music Conference The Global Entertainment Summit Los Angeles and New York, The Cutting Edge Music Conference New Orleans, The Independent Music Conference Philadelphia, Publishing Panel, Dallas IMC Publishing Panel, West Virginia IMC Publishing Panel and many more.
ALLISON WRIGHT CLARK - Music Supervisor
Allison began her music career studying classical piano and participating in a cavalcade of school musical programs and talent performances. In college she attended concerts and got heavily into the underground music scene in Chicago. At Bradley University she worked as DJ, Program Director and Concert Promoter in college radio. While working in Chicago she coordinated music production for smash video games like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Frogger, and the original Metal Gear Solid series at Konami. She then produced commercial music for clients like Sears, Quaker Oats, Helene Curtis, Miller Brewing and many others. In 1996 she moved to L.A. and produced music and sound design for commercial campaigns with many composers such as Hans Zimmer, Harry Gregson-Williams, John Powell, Roy Hay, Gavin Greenaway, Jeff Rona and PJ Hanke for clients like Nike, Land Rover, Coca-Cola, and Universal Studios. She then managed the busy Media Ventures' music editorial department on projects like Blade II, Wonderland, Live From Bagdad, and Six Feet Under. Beginning in 2002 she collaborated with composer Klaus Badelt coordinating the film scores for Pirates of the Caribbean, The Recruit, Basic, K-19, and Ned Kelly. Recently, she has music supervised Paul Soter's comedy, Watching The Detectives starring Lucy Lu and Cillian Murphy, and ABC Family's mini series, “Fallen", and score supervised the hit video game, Call of Duty 4, created by Infinity Ward. In 2008, Allison score supervised the A&E / Scott Free Productions mini series, The Andromeda Strain. As music supervisor she recently completed the independent feature film drama, American Primitive, ABC Family's new comedy series, The Middleman, Jeff Fisher's Killer Movie, and The Broken Lizard comedy, “the Slammin' Salmon".
AMY SALKO ROBERTSON - Film Producer
Ms. Salko's most recent credits include the comedy, THE OH IN OHIO written by Adam Wierzbianski directed by Billy Kent, starring Parker Posey, Paul Rudd, Mischa Barton and Danny DeVito, with cameos by Liza Minnelli, Heather Graham and Keith David. The irreverent comedy WHEN DO WE EAT? was recently found a dedicated following in NY, Florida, LA and Chicago, written by Nina Davidovich and Salvador Litvak; directed by Litvak, starring Ben Feldman, Shiri Appleby, Adam Lamberg, Max Greenfield, Mili Avital, Cynda Williams, Meredith Scott Lynn, Michael Lerner, Lesley Ann Warren and Jack Klugman.REALITY ,is scheduled to begin filming with Ross Venokur directing, Jon Heder (Napoleon Dynamite / Blades of Glory) to star. EMILY GOODBODY, which is scheduled to begin filming, Fall 2008, with David Morse directing. She is currently developing and putting together a slate of commercial projects of various budget ranges and genres. Amy is proud to have been selected as a mentor for The Cinestory Screenwriting Competition, AFI Kodak Connect, IFP/Film Independent - Project Involve, as a judge for The Angelus Student Film Festival, Montage Diversity in Screenwriting Competition, and was recently chosen to be the Guest Producer of Idyllwild Arts, TAKE 1, SCENE 1 event for young filmmakers. She was also chosen as a mentor for the Idyllwild Arts Screenwriting Intensive, adult summer program. Amy is more than happy to contribute to the numerous panels in which she's been asked to speak. Prior to producing, Salko Robertson was an agent at Creative Artists Agency (CAA) where, during her 9-year tenure, she helped build the careers of Jamie Foxx, Val Kilmer, Woody Harrelson, Harry Connick Jr, Cheech Marin, Thomas Haden Church, Benjamin Bratt, Elisabeth Shue, Virginia Madsen and Ethan Hawke, to name a few. Amy currently lives in Santa Monica with her husband and daughter.
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