EDUCATION, PANELS, AND WORKSHOPS
CONCEPT TO COMPLETION PANEL MODERATOR
DANIEL SPRINGEN - is the Executive Director of the Orlando Film Festival, Wild Rivers Film Festival, and Technical Director of the Sarasota Film Festival. He is a DGA Director with Eight Films in World Wide Distribution. He has worked with Spike Lee on multiple commercials, NFL Football promos, and the documentary "Jim Brown All American", He also worked with Norman Reedus (Ride with Norman Reedus Pilot and Season One), The Voice (Telemundo Production Manager), Bruce Jenner, Cindy Crawford, Michael Madsen, Kevin Nealon, Ed Bagly Jr., Tyne Daily, Jeffery Donovan, and many, many, many more.
Daniel is steping in for Tracy Frenkle who has ran our panels for over 10 Years. He is currently unavailable and Daniel is honored yet humbled to take his place this year.
ALL PANELS START AT 10:30am - NOVEMBER 1st - NOVEMBER 7th
BRIAN EDGAR - has written scripts for Al Pacino, Killer Films and HBO. His original screenplay CONQUEST is in development with Tom Waller and De Warrenne Pictures. Brian was also script consultant on Waller’s new award-winning film, KISS OF THE CON QUEEN. He is a co-writer on TAILSPIN, a true story action/drama being developed by London-based Screen crib. His latest screenplay is DARK SANDS, an elevated thriller. A graduate of the Columbia University MFA film program, Brian has taught screenwriting at CUNY/Hunter College and Gotham Writers Workshop in New York, and has presented workshops and panels at University of Paris/Nanterre, Rutgers University, Story Expo LA, and at the Sedona, Orlando and Gasparilla Film Festivals. Co-founder of Story To Screenplay, Brian works with writers of all levels who aspire to elevate their screenplays for the marketplace.
NOVEMBER 1st - STORY TO SCREENPLAY - 12noon
NOVEMBER 3rd - THE ACTORS SCREENPLAY - 12noon
STORY TO SCREENPLAY and THE ACTORS SCREENPLAY WORKSHOPS
BILL SUCHY- has created, written, produced and/or directed over a dozen documentaries and 2000 hours of broadcast and cable television programs. Including the Emmy winning PBS program Earl Cunningham: The Dragon of St. George Street, the Emmy nominated film Silver Wings, Flying Dreams, the WNET PBS NATURE Special Cats, the Academy Award nominated feature documentary, Building Bombs, and the acclaimed PBS programs, In Praise of Wild Florida, For the Love of Manatees, A Citrus Legacy, Future Vision and Nature’s Landlords. as well as the syndicated Disney children’s series, Secrets of the Animal Kingdom. He is presently completing the PBS documentary, Jerry Uelsmann: Visual Poetry.
NOVEMBER 1st - WRITING
NOVEMBER 2nd - PRODUCING
NOVEMBER 3rd - DIRECTING
DIRECTING
BENJAMIN LOWELL - SOC, ICG - is a cameraman based in Florida and works extensively overseas. He graduated with a BA in Motion Picture Technology at the University of Central Florida. He’s worked on projects from commercials to features with filmmakers including Tony Scott, Spike Lee and Tom Hanks; including the Academy Award winning film “Monster” with Charlize Theron. He has also worked with Academy Award winning cinematographer Bob Richardson on multiple occasions.
Most recently, he camera operated and DP’d additional photography on the Documentary, “PRE FAB!”, the untold story of the beginning of the Beatles.
NOVEEMBER 4th - 10:30am
CINEMATOGRAPY
PRODUCING
SYLVIA CAMINER - is an Emmy Award-winning director and producer with more than 20 years of experience. Her new feature thriller, FOLLOW HER, which she produced/directed through her production company, DolGer Films, is currently streaming on Paramount+/Showtime. She's produced more than fifteen independent features including the Harvey Keitel WWII film, CHOSEN, THE DELI, BLUE MOON, LOVE N’ DANCING, GRACE and BREAKING POINT.
Sylvia also works in Non-Fiction and produced/directed the documentaries, AN AFFAIR OF THE HEART, about Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Rick Springfield; TANZANIA: A JOURNEY WITHIN, an odyssey that explores beauty and suffering in East Africa; and the hit Daytime travel series, SAMANTHA BROWN’S PLACES TO LOVE now in it’s sixth season.
NOVEMBER 2nd - 10:30am
SOUND DESIGN
DANNY DONATI is a musician, composer, technologist, educator, and ASCAP member who has been composing and orchestrating for films since 2004. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Music from the Interamerican University of Puerto Rico and has been an audio panelist at the Orlando Film Festival since 2018, sharing his expertise in both film and music. Currently, he is working on a personal development book, which will feature a theme song for each chapter. Through conferences, video series, and the power of music, Danny shares his personal journey, illustrating the strength of faith and purpose, and reminding us that even in life’s darkest moments, the sun will rise again.
NOVEMBER 5th - 10:30am
DISTRIBUTION
LARRY HABER - is a practicing attorney for over 35 years, with the last 25 years specializing in entertainment law in addition to my business transactional practice. I have extensive experience in all aspects of legal, business and union matters in the entertainment industry, including the production, distribution and sales of long and short form film and television programming, and the negotiating and drafting of agreements for financing, production, and distribution of such programming. My clients also include software, web site, design and graphics companies. I represent production companies, talent, and producers in all phases of development and production in all types of media worldwide. My legal experience is grounded in intellectual property, corporate, general business and transactional law. I was an in-house attorney at both Universal Studios Florida and Walt Disney World for over seven years, and my last four years at Disney focused exclusively as Director of Business Affairs for original television programming. Among other projects while at Disney, I packaged, negotiated and sold worldwide rights for two episodic television series.
NOVEMBER 7th - 10:30am
EDITING
OLIVER PETERS is an award-winning creative editor and colorist with over five decades of production and post-production experience. He was worked in commercials, feature films, documentaries, television series, themed entertainment, and corporate communications. During this time he has also held management positions at a number of broadcast and production facilities. Peters is a regular contributor to industry trade publications and web sites. For more info, check out his website at oliverpeters.com.
NOVEMBER 6th - 10:30am
FINANCING
Scott duPont (aka www.MovieFinanceGuy.com ) has raised millions $ over the past 25 years for over 2 dozen features. He was the LA based producer of Movie Money CONFIDENTIAL (documentary about raising movie money) and is a member of the Producers Guild & the Int’l Documentary Association. duPont hosts a free podcast called Finance YOUR Movie (now in it’s 6th Season) premiering each week on MillionaireFlix before releasing to all major podcast platforms. Scott wrote the book Finance YOUR Movie and also consults with indie filmmakers challenged with raising the “equity” portion of their projects budgeted between $100K - $1M. Over the last two years his clients have collectively raised millions to get their projects financed. Scott’s mission is “to help filmmakers get their money, so they can make their dream project a reality and to the screen!” For more info visit: www.FinanceYOURMovie.com
NOVEMBER 2nd - 12noon