Bo Zenga is AFI graduate/Writer/Director/Producer/CEO of Boz Productions Bo Zenga is best known for developing and executive producing Scary Movie for Dimension/Miramax as well as writing and executive producing the comedy Soul Plane released by MGM. Zenga also produced Turistas starring Josh Duhamel and Melissa George for 20th Century Fox and he wrote, directed and produced Stan Helsing, released by Anchor Bay Films. He produced the comedy Everything’s Jake, a winner at the Santa Barbara Film Festival as well as the New York Film Festival film If Tomorrow Comes starring Golden Globe winner James Franco. Other distinguished talent such as Will Smith, Tom Cruise, Steven Spielberg, Nicolas Cage, John Travolta and Ron Howard have attached themselves to Zenga’s projects.

Actor/Director/Producer/CEO of Lifelike Films, LLC Lionel Wigram, is a British film producer and screenplay writer named a senior vice president of production at Warner Bros in November 2000 where he was a co-executive producer of the 1995 film The Underneath and has been involved in producing the Harry Potter movies as well as writing the screenplay and producing the Sherlock Holmes trilogy. He is currently involved in creating the magical world of J.K. Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them directed by David Yates as well as producing Guy Ritchie’s Knights of the Round Table: King Arthur written by Joby Harold(Edge of Tomorrow).

Stanford graduate Writer/Producer/Executive CEO of Emergence Entertainment, Mark Kratter is best known for producing feature films such as The Fly Fisher (directed by John Stockwell)and many unscripted programs (including Hang Men for the Discovery Channel), he also works as a screenwriter and has written scripts-for-hire for other producers, including Clark Peterson (Monster with Charlize Theron), Steve Jones (You Don’t Know Jack with Al Pacino) and Stephen L’Heureux (Sin City 2).

Mark Rothman got his big break writing for TV shows and became the head writer and show runner of numerous shows most notably Happy Days and The Odd Couple. Rothman is the creator and producer of an amazing 178 episodes of Laverne and Shirley, as well as the co-creator, co-executive producer and a writer for the 1977 situation comedy Busting Loose and the 1978 situation comedy The Ted Knight Show. He also composed the theme song for Busting Loose.

Micky Levy, screenwriter Rails and Ties, produced by Clint Eastwood’s “Malpaso Productions” starring Kevin Bacon and Marcia Gay Harden and directed by Alison Eastwood.

Indiana University graduate and President of Production for Funny Or Die, Mike Farah oversees Funny Or Die’s television and feature projects as well as the creative day-to-day operations for the Funny or Die website. Farah produced the Emmy-nominated “Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis”, the award-winning video “Prop 8: The Musical” as well as the Ron Howard directed “Presidential Reunion”. He is also the executive producer of “Funny Or Die’s Billy on the Street starring Billy Eichner” on Fuse, “@midnight” on Comedy Central, and the Discovery sports-documentary, “American Muscle”.

Mike Karz, President of Gulfstream Pictures, is a writer and producer, known for The Jamie Kennedy Experiment (2002), Valentine’s Day (2010) and Blended (2014).
Together with Bill Bindley, Karz launched Gulfstream Pictures in August 2012, acquiring an exclusive first-look deal with Warner Bros. and a multi-million-dollar development fund from Korea-based 3D stereoscopic leader Redrover Co., Ltd. and a consortium of U.S. private equity funds.
Their many credits include hits like Good Luck Chuck, Valentine’s Day, The Nut Job, and Blended. Among other projects they acquired Chad and Carey Hayes’ script for a high 6 figures and are producing The Feud with Circle of Confusion’s David Alpert, Ken Freimann and Rick Jacobs. Gulfstream’s EVP Josie Rosen will oversee The Feud for the company, with assistance from creative executive Matt Phelps.

Mike Medavoy is the co-founder of Orion Pictures (1978), former chairman of TriStar Pictures, former head of production for United Artists (1974–1978) and current chairman and CEO of Phoenix Pictures.
He began his career at Universal Studios in 1964. In 1965 he became an agent at the General Artists Corporation and later moving into the vice president position of the Creative Management Agency.
He became Creative Management’s vice president of the motion picture department in 1967, where he worked with Steven Spielberg and Francis Ford Coppola among others and headed to IFA in 1970.
In 1974, United Artists brought Medavoy in as senior vice president of production. There, he was part of the team responsible for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Rocky, and Annie Hall, which won best Pictures Oscars® in 1975, 1976 and 1977 respectively. United Artists made a number of other notable films at the time, including Apocalypse Now, Raging Bull, Network and Coming Home.
In 1978, Medavoy co-founded Orion Pictures. During his tenure there, Orion released films such notable and successful films as Platoon, Amadeus, Robocop, Hannah and Her Sisters, The Terminator, Dances with Wolves, and The Silence of the Lambs.
In 1990, Medavoy became the chairman of TriStar Pictures where he oversaw release of films such as Philadelphia, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Sleepless in Seattle, Cliffhanger, The Fisher King, Legends of the Fall and Hook.
In 1995, Medavoy co-founded Phoenix Pictures. As its chairman and CEO, Medavoy co-produced such films as The People vs. Larry Flint, The Mirror Has Two Faces, U Turn, Apt Pupil, The Thin Red Line, The 6th Day, Basic, All the King’s Men, Zodiac, Pathfinder and Miss Potter, among others. The Thin Red Line and The People vs. Larry Flint received Oscar nominations.
Most recently, Phoenix Pictures has produced Shutter Island and Black Swan and have multiple projects in development.

Niija Kuykendall, Vice President of Production at Warner Bros. Pictures is a Brown University graduate who started her career in media as the Editorial Assistant to the Spokesperson of Viacom Inc. in New York City. She worked as a magazine film critic, interned for director Lee Daniels, wrote script coverage for Killer Films, and worked as a production associate at the 2004 Sundance Director’s Lab. Back in LA, Niij was a Development Assistant for Beacon Pictures before she became Creative Executive at Twentieth Century Fox where she worked on the movies ALIENS VS. PREDATOR: REQUIEM and HITMAN. In 2008, Niij joined Warner Bros. Pictures where she has worked on movies such as CONTAGION, DARK SHADOWS, MAGIC MIKE, ARGO and GANGSTER SQUAD and is currently overseeing Guy Ritchie’s KNIGHTS OF THE ROUND TABLE and Rupert Sander’s NAPOLEON written by Jeremy Doner.

Alison Eastwood, Producer and Director Rails and Ties, produced by “Malpaso Productions” starring Kevin Bacon and Marcia Gay Harden. Eastwood is also an actress, known for Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997), Tightrope (1984) and Absolute Power (1997). She is also the daughter of Clint Eastwood.

Andrew Lazar, Executive Producer at Mad Chance Productions is not just a movie producer, but also one of the entertainment industry’s untold-story-seeking entrepreneurs. For Lazar, movie making is all about laying it on the line, taking a risk on great material. Some of his films are smart action-adventures, some are daring, low-budget independent dramas that no one else is brave enough to touch, and some are edgy, well written comedies. To Lazar it doesn’t matter. If it moves him, he finds one way or another – utilizing the full breadth of financing and distribution options available today — to get it to audiences.

Typical of Lazar’s producing style, he continues to move back and forth between the big and the intimate, the studio movie and the breakaway, independent passion project. Lazar produced the live-action/CGI summer hit Cats & Dogs (2001). Also Lazar produced Danny DeVito’s Death to Smoochy (2002) through his Mad Chance Productions, which has a non-exclusive first look deal with Warner Bros. A black comedy about the recently fired, Barney-like host of a children’s show who plots the murder of his rival, the film stars Robin Williams, Edward Norton, Danny DeVito, Jon Stewart and Catherine Keener. Lazar and Mad Chance also produced Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002), based on the comic memoir of ‘Gong Show’ host Chuck Barris.

Since June 2013, Greg Silverman, President of Creative Development and Worldwide Production at Warner Bros has full oversight of Warner Bros Pictures’ entire development, production and budget.

Silverman got his start in the industry working in craft services on the independent film Two Guys Talkin’ About Girls and then became an assistant at Tri-Star and Mandeville Films before joining Mad Chance as a production executive.

Silverman initially joined Warner Bros. in 1997 as a junior production executive, where he worked on such films as The Matrix, A Perfect Murder and Cats & Dogs. Silverman then joined Revolution Studios as Senior Vice President, Production, overseeing America’s Sweethearts, The One and The New Guy, before returning to Warner Bros. Pictures in 2002 as Vice President, Production. He was promoted to Senior Vice President, Production in 2004 and then to Executive Vice President, Production in 2007. He has overseen production on such projects as The Dukes of Hazzard, The Lake House, The Bucket List, Beerfest, Batman Begins, Troy, Get Smart and Yes Man.
Prior to his current position, Silverman was President of Production at Warner Bros Pictures for two years, after various senior positions within the Pictures Group, including Executive Vice President of Creative Development and Production, where he oversaw blockbusters like 300, The Dark Knight, The Hangover, Inception, and many others.

Josie Rosen is the Executive VP of Development and Production at Warner Bros-based Gulfstream Pictures headed by Mike Karz and Bill Bindley.
Rosen’s impressive career took off as Senior VP of Production at Fox. She then became President at Farrell Paura Productions. Rosen went on to become executive producer on the New Line/Warner films New Year’s Eve and Valentine’s Day, Lionsgate’s Killers, Summit’s Sorority Row and Warners’ Thunderstruck.
Rosen joined Karz Entertainment as Head of Development overseeing projects including Honeymoon with Harry and West Texas United. She is currently working on the Josh Friedlander film One Night Stan as well as Leftovers, written and co-produced by Nia Vardalos (My Big Fat Greek Wedding.)

Actor/Director/Producer/CEO of Lifelike Films, LLC Jude Gerard Prest is best known for directing and producing We Can Get Them For You Wholesale – from Nell Gaiman’s bestselling short story collection – Smoke And Mirrors starring Brian Howe (Justified, Catch Me If You Can) and Daniel Roebuck(The Fugitive, Mob City, Lost). Prest was the Executive Producer, Co-Creator, Director and Showrunner of The Travel Channel pilot City Swappers and the Showrunner and Director for the hit ABC Saturday series – Ocean Mysteries with Jeff Corwin. He also served as Showrunner and Director for the hit Nat Geo Wild special 700 Cats – narrated by Jane Lynch.

Prest owns all media rights to and has adapted the screenplay for the powerful, award winning memoir, The Los Angeles Diaries, currently in development with Academy Award winning director Steven Soderbergh attached as a the project’s consultant and advisor.

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