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Smashface at the Producer's Guild of America

If you're in L.A. and into the entertainment industry, there's a panel that Zadi and I are on tomorrow at the Producer's Guild. Downside is it's $50 f you're not a PGA member ($20 with student ID), but it's a nice lineup of presenters and panelists.

PGA SEMINAR - "PREPARING FOR THE INFINITE CHANNEL UNIVERSE"

DATE: November 10th
TIME: 10:00am to 4:00pm
LOCATION: CBS Radford Studios (4024 Radford Ave. Studio City, CA 91604)

PGA Members: No Charge
Non-Members: $50
Students w/ valid ID: $20

CONFIRMED PRESENTERS INCLUDE:
YouTube.com - Head of Product Marketing Jamie Byrne
Break.com - CEO Keith Richman
Broadcaster.com - CEO Martin Wade & VP of Marketing Robert Gould
Revver.com - VP of Marketing Angela Wilson Gyetvan
Metacafe.com - Founder Eyal Hertzog
Veoh.com - Founder Dmitry Shapiro
Zattoo.com - VP of Business Development Gagan Palrecha and VP of Content Ian Greenblatt
Brightcove.com - Director of Product Marketing Sanjay Desai

1ST PANEL: CASE-STUDIES FROM CONTENT-CREATORS
- Dan Harmon, creator of Channel101.com and Comedy Central's "The Sarah Silverman Program"
- Matt Price co-creator of Comedy Central's Guacamole.
- Douglas Sarine and Kent Nichols of Beatbox Giant Productions "Ask a Ninja"
- Steve Woolf and Zadi Diaz of Smashface Productions "Epic-FU.com"

2ND PANEL: DEALMAKING & THE FUTURE OF DISTRIBUTION
- Lydia Antonini: Director of Development at Warner Premiere
- Kevin Tidwell: Columnist/Blogger Allthings.tv
- Gary Bryman: VP Creative - Short Form Content The Walt Disney Studios
- Bruce Smith: Owner of Omnipop Management

SEMINAR PRODUCER & MODERATOR: Dan Abrams, Executive Producer at BodogTV and Writer/Director/Creator of the "Bif Naked Bride" webisode series.

RSVP: kyle [AT] producersguild [DOT] org

SCHEDULE:
9:00am - Coffee & Bagels / Networking
10:00am - 8 Companies' Presentations
12:30pm - Lunch / Networking (attendees may submit their written questions to our "question jar" for vetting)
1:30pm - 1st Panel : Case-studies from Content-Creators
2:30pm - 2nd Panel : Dealmaking & the Future of Distribution
3:30pm - Selected Q&A for panelists & presenters
4:00pm - Event ends / Networking