panel

Thursday

Opening Night Panel

Entertainment That Uplifts – A Masterclass

Thursday, June 26, 8:30PM

Stephen Galloway

Dean, Chapman University’s Dodge College; former Executive Editor, The Hollywood Reporter

Shruthi Mathur

Television writer (Disney); President, UNA-USA Los Angeles

Joseph Rosendo

Six-time Emmy Award–winning travel journalist, director, and host of Joseph Rosendo’s Steppin’ Out and Travelscope on PBS and CreateTV

Irina Szodruch

Dramaturg, creative producer, development consultant (CO International)

Cecilia “CC” W’Emedi

Senior Project Manager, International Programs at Women in Film (WIF)

Friday

Panel 1

Crossover Creators – Where Cinema Meets Influence

Friday, June 27, 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM

Shicong Zhu

Director, writer, Head of Studio at DramaBox

Blair Bai

Creative Producer at DramaBox

AmbiKa Sanjana

Supervising Producer, WCFF; global cultural strategist

Frederick Tabiyus Nah IV

Award-winning filmmaker, music artist, CEO of Swerve Entertainment

Kevin Hissink

Multi-platinum music producer, co-founder of BOONN

Susan Brazer

CEO of LionShare Media

Ashley BeLoat

Actress and lead in vertical TV series

Saturday

Panel 2

On the Pulse – Culture in Motion and Shaping the Next Generation

Friday, June 27, 11:15 AM – 12:30 PM

Jenn Lindsay

Professor of Sociology at John Cabot University in Rome; founder of So Fare Films

Salvador Carrasco

Director of The Other Conquest; Head of the Film Program at Santa Monica College; member of the DGA

Catharine Dada

Filmmaker and professor at Loyola Marymount University and Santa Monica College

Carole Joyce

Vice-President and Director of From the Heart Productions and the Roy W. Dean Grant; Director and Producer of the Authentic Global Film Festival

Sandra de Castro Buffington

Producer and lecturer at Harvard’s Media, Medicine and Health Program

Crickett Rumley

Founder and Senior Director of the Film Festival Department at NYFA

Simone Bartesaghi

Filmmaker (RUN, Downstream), author of The Director’s Six Senses, and professor at Santa Monica College

Panel 3

Parables on Screen – The Sacred Mission of Storytelling

Friday, June 27, 5:30 PM

Pastor Chet Lowe

Senior Pastor at Calvary LIFE

Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Global humanitarian, spiritual leader, and peace envoy

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