PANEL Q & A/NETWORK AFTERPARTY
THE TRICKY BUSINESS OF MAKING MOVIES AND TELEVISION IN L.A. WHY THE CHALLENGE WON’T GO AWAY
LA Business Today and the Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency, explore how to bring money to marketable independent film making.
Presented by LA Business Today, and additional resources made available by
Icon Imaging PR
WEDNESDAY JULY 20TH, 2011 6 P.M.
ARENA STAGE EGYPTIAN THEATER HOLLYWOOD BLVD.AT LAS PALMAS (PARKING ON LAS PALMAS)
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PANELISTS INCLUDE (SEE BRIEF BIOS BELOW)
Bill Mundell - Executive Director, Gerrymandering the Movie
Tim Mc Hugh - Cinematographer, Film and TV Action Committee
Mimi Kennedy - Actress, Activist
Martin Guigui, President, Sunset Pictures
Haskell Wexler - Cinematographer, Two-time Oscar winner
Bob Jimenez -Moderator
LA Business Today co-host Bob Jimenez is a Peabody, Dupont Columbia, five-time Emmy winning TV journalist and news anchor. Leading the news at KCBS-TV, UPN News 13, KFWB radio, KRON-TV San Francisco, and NBC Nightly News & the Today Show, his career as a news leader has been an integral part of the growing influence of Latinos in America in business, media, and entertainment. Jimenez has served on the Board of Trustees of UC Davis, and has influenced the lives and education of thousands of students as an adjunct instructor at USC Annenberg. LA Business Today has won international recognition as one of the top government sponsored TV talk shows in the USA and Canada.
Sharon Hardee Jimenez-Moderator
LA Business Today co-host Sharon Hardee Jimenez is President and founder of Icon Imaging PR and founder and executive director of Bring Hollywood Home. Sharon Jimenez is the producer of Gerrymandering the Movie (2010) a documentary selected by the Tribeca and Seattle International Film Festivals which focuses on fixed elections and conflict of interest in drawing America’s political districts. Sharon Jimenez is a former TV newscaster Jacksonville, Houston, Atlanta, and a senior strategist/publicist in the 2004 & 2008 presidential campaigns. Sharon Jimenez founded Bring Hollywood Home in 2010 to fight for jobs in film and television in California.
Bill Mundell, Executive Producer/Gerrymandering The Movie LA Business Today Channel 35
Bill Mundell is an LA based entrepreneur who has recently used film as a means to begin transforming California’s political landscape. The Executive Producer of Gerrymandering the Movie made his film available to voters throughout the state to win independent redistricting reform passed by initiative in 2010. A graduate of Columbia University Bill Mundell was recently chairman of ZBB energy, a publicly traded alternative energy company, and chairman of INTEKEA, a holding company related to new frontier investments in Africa. Bill has advanced market-based solutions to economic and policy issues in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and the Financial Times, and is a contributing editor to International Trade and International Banking. He has also taught Economic Policy Analysis at UCLA’s Anderson Graduate School of Management. In 1999 his father, Robert Mundell, won the Nobel Prize in Economics. Mundell dedicated the movie Gerrymandering to his late mother Barbara Mundell who retired after a long career as a public school teacher.
MARTIN GUIGUI, Director/President Sunset Pictures LA Business Today/Channel 35
Martin Guigui is President of Sunset Pictures and Old School Records. A member of the DGA, WGA, SAG, NARAS, ASCAP, Guigui is a director, screenwriter, and executive producer of feature films. Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Guigui is the son of famed orchestra conductor Efrain Guigui. Described as a P.T. Barnum of the movie industry, director Martin Guigui combines a strong entrepreneurial spirit with a desire to make movies in California. Since the advent of runaway production Guigui has been on the forefront of finding solutions to making films in the state. His admirers in the industry call Guigui one of the most optimistic directors working in the business today.
Mimi Kennedy, Actress/Author/Activist
Mimi Kennedy is one of Hollywood’s best known character actresses in television and film. Director Woody Allen picked Kennedy to star in “Midnight In Paris” after being won over as a Mimi Kennedy fan for her performance in the Indy Movie “In the Loop” a spoof on the US and British rush to war in Iraq. Her role as “Abby” on the hit TV series Dharma and Greg made her an international star in every country where the ‘hippie’ mom of Dharma found a following in the hearts of millions of fans. Unstoppable in her love of American politics and her family Kennedy co-founded Progressive Democrats of America leading the debate for peace and election integrity in the last two presidential elections. Mimi has successfully juggled a busy life working in theatre, film and television while becoming a published author and passionate playwright.
Haskell Wexler-Iconic Cinematographer/2 time Academy Award Winner
Haskell Wexler is considered by many of his peers to be one of the most important artistic leaders in Hollywood in the last half century. The Two-Time Academy Award winning cinematographer (Bound for Glory/Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf) has recently won a seat on the board of the board of the International Cinematographers Guild. Wexler is a relentless advocate for those who work in the film industry. His movie, “Who Needs Sleep” challenged the work hours required of production crews with leading actors appearing in the film to advocate for the artists behind the camera who make their careers possible.
Tim McHugh/Visual Effects & Cinematography
Tim McHugh is an Emmy award winning visual effects supervisor and cinematographer. Few people in Hollywood have done more to fight runaway production than Tim McHugh. As an Executive Director of the Film and Television Action Committee, McHugh led a coalition of film workers and small businesses in a nation-wide fight to keep film and television production in the USA. He brought leadership to legal challenges of foreign job-stealing subsidies in an effort to keep film and television production in the United States. Tim McHugh has extensive knowledge of the legal and political process which have helped and thwarted independent filmmakers.
Let’s Make a Difference, Sharon Hardee Jimenez/Executive Director Bring Hollywood Home/President Icon Imaging PR/Co-Host LA Business Today [email protected] 310-409-3306 www.labusinesstoday.biz www.bringhollywoodhome.org
