Alliance for Tax, Legal, and Accounting Seminars
&
Structured Finance Institute

February 4 - 6, 2008
Intercontinental Hotel
Los Angeles, CA
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We are pleased to announce ATLAS Information Group’s Eighth Annual International Film & TV Finance Summit. This long running event brings together a senior roster of film finance professionals, commercial investment bankers, independent producers, studio executives and legal and tax accounting advisors to share practical experience and technical knowledge on the complex issues involved in financing film and television productions.

Conference Sponsors:

The First 20 Workshop Registrants Receive THE BIZ by Schuyler M. Moore is the most comprehensive guide to negotiating that legal and financial obstacle course that independent filmmakers must endure. Schuyler M. Moore, Esq., is a partner in the corporate entertainment department of the Los Angeles office of the national law firm of Strook, Strook & Lavan, LLP. Mr. Moore has been practicing law in the entertainment industry since 1981, and he represents a broad spectrum of entertainment industry clients, including producers, sales agents, foreign distributors, and financiers.

Here’s Why You Can’t Afford To Miss This Summit:
 • Access to and information from the most senior players in the industry at the top of their professions
 • Significant networking opportunities amongst the top professionals and financiers in the film business today
 • Expanded session on the U.S. state, federal and international tax incentives for film and TV production
 • Increased case studies including financing films of interest to the Spanish/Latino market, structuring a film financing between North America and the far east and a multi-jurisdictional feature film co-production
 • The role of commercial banks in securing financing against future funding commitments
 • The role of private equity markets and institutional investors in the motion picture industry
 • Attaching talent to a project (how the right actors/director/writer/photographer etc., can improve financing opportunities)
 • Using digital platforms for distributing media content into the home

Network With the Following Speakers, Co-Chairs, and Moderators:

Laura Bickford, Laura Bickford Productions David Bloomfield, Law Offices of David Bloomfield Eileen Burke, D.B. Zwirn & Co., L.P. Joseph Chianese, Entertainment Partners, Inc. Jill Cohen, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP Marco Cordova, Entertainment Partners, Inc. Robert Darwell, Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP Avy Eschenasy, Focus Features Laura Fazio, Deutsche Bank Patti C. Felker, Nelson, Felker, Levine & Dern, LLP Mary Ann Hughes, The Walt Disney Company Jesse Jacobs, Goldman, Sachs & Co. Vinca Liane Jarrett, FilmPro Finance Luke Jones, Cool Hand International Wade Layton, CIT Thomas Leo, Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP Mitch Levine, International Film Festival Consulting Group Patricia V. Mayer, Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp

Fred Milstein, CineFinance David Molner, Screen Capital International Schuyler Moore, Stroock, Stroock & Lavan Warren W. Nimchuk, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Conor O'Brien, KPMG Brian Pass, Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP Chris Pimlott, Ernst & Young LLP Hans Joachim Radau, Norr Stiefenhofer Lutz Karen Robson, Pryor Cashman Sherman & Flynn LLP Barbara Rosenfeld, Entertainment Partners, Inc. Roy Salter, The Salter Group, LLC Steve Scharf, O'Melveny & Myers LLP Antonio Sifre, Toro, Colon, Mullet, Rivera & Sifre, P.S.C. Marion Spiegelman, Film Finances, Inc. Carolyn Stamegna, Goodmans LLP Janet Stott, Showtime Networks, Inc. Jeff Tolin, Ernst & Young LLP Adrian Ward, Israel Discount Bank of New York David Zitzerman, Goodmans LLP