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Award-winning Director/Cinematographer working in film/TV and feature film productions. Most recent work includes NBC TV series, “Blacklist,” CBS, “Elementary” and documentary feature film, “Ordinary Miracles: The Photo League’s New York” Best Film winner at the 2013 Amsterdam Film Festival. ( For complete list of credits see IMDB) He has served on many industry sponsored discussion panels and has been published in leading cinematography publications sharing his insights and experiences working in the HD digital medium.

Georgevich’s director/cinematographer work includes nearly 1,000 commercials and numerous corporate productions for major clients such as AT&T, Chrysler Jeep, HBO, Toyota, Nissan, Lucent Technologies, Avon, Liz Claiborne and Hallmark Entertainment.

He is a professor at the School of Visual Arts (NY) in advanced film/digital production, and frequent guest lecturer at universities and professional film and photography organizations. He received the 2012 Deluxe Bud Stone Award for outstanding educational contributions to the art and craft of cinematography by the International Cinematographers Guild. He’s the recipient of more than 20 awards from major international and domestic film festivals including the Gold Hugo from the Chicago Film Festival, an Emmy, and three CINE Golden Eagle Awards.

He has an MFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Institute of Film, and a BA from the University of Denver. (Mass Communications and Russian Studies). He is a member of the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC), International Cinematographers Guild, Local 600 IATSE, and the Directors Guild of America (DGA).

He is National Executive Board Member of the International Cinematographers Guild and Co-Chair of its’ Eastern Region Education and Training Committee.

Specialties: HD productions, International film/digital productions, high profile documentary productions on PBS, HBO; commercial/corporate image campaigns.

SEE georgevichasc.com

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Ed Lantz is a media and entertainment engineer, scientist, executive manager and entrepreneur. He is internationally recognized as a pioneer and leading authority in large-format digital cinema and immersive experiences for mass audiences. Other areas of interest include virtual reality, interactive place-based entertainment, real-time video/music performance, independent films with socially conscious themes, fine art visual music, neuroaesthetics, and wellness applications exploiting the psychophysical effects of interactive digital media. 

Mr. Lantz has a background in hardware and software engineering, quantum physics and electromagnetics. He spent seven years leading photonic signal processing R&D at Harris Corp. in Melbourne, Florida, five years at the Astronaut Memorial Planetarium and Observatory in Cocoa, Florida leading the development of advanced laser, video and astronomical projectors, and eight years with Spitz, Inc. where he built a team that transformed old-style planetariums into immersive visualization environments and assisted in developing an immersive cinema production team and workflow. Mr. Lantz is founder and Chair of Harmony Channel, a broadband television network delivering mood-elevating digital media that has been described as “MTV for the Soul.” He also operates Visual Bandwidth, Inc., an immersive cinema and fulldome video advisory network. 

Mr. Lantz has published and presented numerous papers on VR and entertainment technologies, and is a regular contributor to ACM SIGGRAPH papers, panels and courses. He founded the International Planetarium Society’s Fulldome Video Committee and the first Fulldome Standards Summit held in Valencia, Spain in 2004, and co-organized the first Immersive Cinema Workshop in Espinho, Portugal in 2005. He received an MS in Electrical Engineering from Tennessee Tech University (1984), serves on the boards of the Center for Visual Music and the Center for Conscious Creativity, and holds two US Patents on immersive video-based theater technology.

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James Percelay is cofounder of the digital marketing agency, Thinkmodo. His agency’s viral videos for movies and brands consistently land in the top-viewed and top-shared spots on the viral video charts. Clio and Shorty Award winning Thinkmodo was selected by Advertising Age as one of the “Top Fifty” creative agencies in 2013, featured in Inc. Magazine’s “Top 25 Most Audacious Companies Changing The World” in 2014, and honored in “The Adweek Creative 100: America’s Most Inventive Talent in Marketing, Media and Tech” in 2015.

James and partner, Michael Krivicka, appear regularly on the Today Show, and have been profiled in The New York Times, Business Week, Fortune, Harvard Leadership Magazine, on CNN, BBC, Bloomberg and NPR. James is a former line producer of the commercial parodies on Saturday Night Live and a TV development executive at Hearst Entertainment. James is a best-selling humor book author, and created and produced two seasons of the web series “High Drama” for Warner Bros. He is a member of the WGA and on the PGA New Media Counsel. James Twitter handle: @twittier

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Frank Prinzi is a cinematographer and director, known for Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001), Northern Exposure (1990) and Night of the Living Dead (1990).

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Jeff Roth oversees feature post production at Post Factory, New York. His responsibilities include new business development and workflow design and supervision. He works with directors, producers, cinematographers and others to streamline production/post-production workflows, and offers expertise in look development and pipeline management. Since joining the company in 2014, he has supervised post work for such films as American Ultra, Oppenheimer Strategies and Mena.

Previously, Roth spent 14 years at Focus Features, ultimately as Senior Vice President of Post Production. His credits included Brokeback Mountain, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Lost in Translation, Milk, Hanna and Anna Karenina, among many other films.

Roth’s background also includes two years as a production executive at Good Machine International, overseeing both physical production and post production. He worked on a number of significant international features, including Pedro Almodovar’s Talk to Her and Alfonso Cuaron’s Y Tu Mama Tambien. Early in his career, Roth worked as a location scout, location manager and production supervisor. He produced the independent feature Just One Time.

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Jason Lynch is the TV writer for Adweek, where he covers the television industry for an audience that includes advertisers, media buyers and TV executives, as well as consumers. His TV writing includes breaking news, profiles, reviews, features, and cover stories on subjects like Mindy Kaling, The Muppets, Mark Burnett, the state of comedy on TV and Trevor Noah.

Prior to joining Adweek in April 2015, Jason wrote about television for a variety of outlets, including The Daily Beast, Quartz, Adweek, Emmy magazine, Parade, TheAtlantic.com, NBCNews.com and The A.V. Club.

He previously spent 15 years at People, most recently as TV Editor, where he oversaw and coordinated all of the television coverage in the magazine and on People.com. Other jobs titles at People included Deputy TV Editor, Deputy Movies Editor, Acting Film Critic and Senior Writer.

Jason makes frequent media appearances to discuss the TV industry, and is a member of the Television Critics Association.

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Joana Vicente has been the Executive Director of the IFP- the oldest and largest nonprofit organization for independent filmmakers in the U.S.- since December 2009. Under Vicente’s leadership, the IFP was most recently bestowed with the honor of developing and operating the Made in NY Media Center after an RFP was issued by the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment and the New York City Economic Development Corporation. The state-of-the-art Media Center brings together professionals from the film, television, advertising, new media, gaming, marketing and branding industries for collaboration and new opportunities, and opened in DUMBO, Brooklyn in October 2013.

Prior to the IFP, Vicente and her partner Jason Kliot produced/executive produced over forty films by such acclaimed directors as Jim Jarmusch, Miguel Arteta, Brian De Palma, Hal Hartley, Steven Soderbergh, Nicole Holofcener, and Todd Solondz. She has co-founded three separate and unique film production entities over the course of her career. These include Open City Films, Blow Up Pictures, the first digital production company in the United States, and HDNet Films, an award-winning digital production company founded with Mark Cuban and Todd Wagner. Among the many films that Vicente and Kliot have produced are Tony Bui’s Sundance Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award-winner THREE SEASONS, Jim Jarmusch’s cult classic COFFEE AND CIGARETTES, Niels Mueller’s THE ASSASSINATION OF RICHARD NIXON, Todd Solondz’s Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning WELCOME TO THE DOLLHOUSE, Brian De Palma’s controversial REDACTED and Alex Gibney’s Academy Award® nominated ENRON: THE SMARTEST GUYS IN THE ROOM. Vicente has served on the jury at Sundance and many other festivals.

Vicente’s films have garnered numerous accolades and awards, including twenty-three Independent Spirit Award nominations and four wins. In 2007, she was the recipient of the Made in NY Award for individuals who have made outstanding contributions to New York City’s entertainment industry. Vicente graduated from the Masters program at The Catholic University of Portugal with a degree in Philosophy and began her career as the press attaché for the Portuguese delegate-and former Prime Minister of Portugal-at the European Parliament. She later became a radio news producer for the United Nations before turning her attention to film.

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Matt Fleeman is the lead consulting engineer for the Verizon Satellite Solutions Group. In this role, he is responsible for the engineering, design, and presales of Verizon satellite networks.

Previously, Matt worked in AT&T’s managed services where he implemented solutions for more than 400 global business customers. Prior to that job, he worked in backbone network groups for U.S. LEC Corp. and Cable & Wireless Communications.

Throughout his career, Matt has continuously increased his responsibility in planning, engineering, sales solutions and operations and consistently executed on transformational opportunities. Matt began his career in 1992 serving in the United States Air Force as a signals intelligence analyst.

In 2014, Matt was granted a patent for his work with border gateway protocols over satellite and another in 2015 for Quality of Service (QOS) for satellite communications networks.

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Robert Gantz is known for his work on Assault on Precinct 13 (2005), Mindhunters (2004) and Mesrine Part 1: Killer Instinct (2008).

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With a background including offline and online editing, visual effects, stereoscopic 3D, and color, Katie Hinsen brings agile and award-winning depth to the Light Iron NY team.

Katie began her career in New Zealand in the late 1990s. She worked her way up the film and television industry before making her mark at the world renowned Park Road Post in Wellington. At Park Road, Katie was the lead DI Editor on Knowing, The Lovely Bones, and Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark. She was also part of the Oscar nominated team for Best Achievement in Film Editing and Best Achievement in Visual Effects on District 9.

In 2010, Katie moved to New York and joined Goldcrest Post, where she worked on numerous feature films and documentaries as a finishing and visual effects artist. Her skills as a colorist were also brought to commercial campaigns featuring Nicki Minaj (Nokia) and Daniel Craig (Range Rover), as well as music videos for Jordin Sparks, Jacob Latimore, and other rising talents.

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