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Wendy Burger is an arts and cultural events consultant whose clients include Woodside Capital Partners and S. Navarro Arts, Inc.
Wendy co-founded and subsequently co-directed the San Francisco International Video Festival, an international exhibition of Video and Performance Art. She was also chief publisher of Video 80 Magazine and created video exhibitions for museums worldwide. She is currently a producer for the independent film, Luna’s Highway and other projects. Wendy has served as a fundraiser for Earth Day and served on many social profit organizations. She is passionate about promoting quality films that inspire and engage audiences. Wendy is actively working on panel development and sponsorships for the Global Social Change Film Festival & Institute.
Orgel is Chairman & CEO of 1Degree Media & Entertainment, a global media and distribution company that creates, acquires, markets and distributes programming & content in the ‘Quality of Life’ Sector (‘becoming a better person’, and ‘creating a better World’) on online Broadband, Mobile, Film, Radio, Cable, Satellite, Video On Demand, and Broadcast Television. And, he is Chairman of Global Media Group, which manages a select portfolio of media and entertainment companies. Orgel is an industry leader with over 25 years of experience in the startup, management and growth of successful, industry-dominant, consumer-driven media brands in the U.S., Canada and the U.K. Following various positions at CBS, Orgel was part of the start-up executive team at and served as Vice President, Sales & Marketing of MTV, Nickelodeon and The Movie Channel, and was the original Vice President, Affiliate Sales & Marketing, and later the Senior Vice President, Programming & Production of the Arts & Entertainment Network, A&E. Orgel has been labeled by Success Magazine as “an MTV Mastermind” and “the man who made TV interactive.” He co-founded Interactive Enterprises, which joined with U.S. West (now Qwest) to create television services for digital broadband delivery by telephone companies. He served as President, Video Jukebox Network, which was later re-branded “THE BOX: Music Television You Control,” the first interactive television network, later acquired by MTV Networks. He was President and COO of Wisdom Media Group, where he led the company’s Television, Radio, Internet and Print media businesses in the global consciousness, balanced health and personal growth categories. Orgel has been responsible for helping raise in excess of $200 million for these media businesses.
Gabrielle Kelly is a Fulbright Scholar in Film to Taiwan and Philippines, a screenwriter, producer and educator with expertise in global writing and producing labs and film programs. In New York she worked with Sidney Lumet for several years seguing to Hollywood where she ran producer Robert Evans’ company at Paramount working in development and production on diverse projects. She also worked for HBO, Fields Hellman, Eddie Murphy PRods. Warner Bros. Her producing credits include indie feature and German-US co-production ALL THE QUEENS MEN starring Eddie Izzard and Matt LeBlanc for Strand Releasing, STAG, for Cineplex Odeon, the family feature D.A.R.Y.L. for Paramount/Columbia and most recently the transmedia feature film ALL AGES NIGHT which she wrote and produced. She is currently Associate Arts Professor in NYU Tisch School of the Arts Singapore.
Lexi Leban (Producer/Director) is an independent filmmaker and educator. Her most recent documentary, Girl Trouble aired on PBS’s acclaimed series Independent Lens in January of 2006, and won the Golden Gate Award for Best Bay Area Documentary at the San Francisco International Film Festival. The film also won the PASS (Prevention for a Safer Society) Award from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency for its contribution in the area of Juvenile Justice. Her short films, More than a Paycheck, Her Tattoo, labor and Tick Tock Bio Clock have screened at film festivals at home and abroad, from Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and the Mill Valley Film Festival to the Berlin International Film Festival. In 2002 she co-founded Critical Images, Inc., a non-profit independent production company dedicated to the creation and dissemination of social issue media, with producing partner Lidia Szajko. Critical Images in currently producing By the Power Vested in Me, a film about the historic civil right movement for Marriage equality in the State of California. In 2008-09, she served as co- chair and member of the web redesign team for new day films (www.newday.com) a filmmaker-run distribution company with a 40-year history of distributing independent documentaries. She served on the Board of Film Arts Foundation from 2004-2005. Lexi is the Academic Director of the Digital Filmmaking & Video Production at the Art Institute of California- San Francisco.
Jonathon Barbato, is a leading expert in the area of monetizing entertainment and video content online, on cable and on television. Barbato has over 25 years in the television and digital media industry with diverse experience from running the marketing division for a major studio and for a cable network to being a founding partner in two successful Internet media companies.
As President and Founder of Apricot Corp, Barbato has played a key role in advising major entertainment brands in monetizing the VOD and Digital space (including Fuel, G4, OutdoorChannel, Movieline, OnCars, Lifetime, Havoc, MovieClips, Rentrak, and many more). Apricot has driven as many as 100 million video views online through a combination of SEM/paid advertising and visitor optimization – which has doubled some brand’s audiences organically over time.
Barbato was one of the founders of Ripe Digital Entertainment (Ripe), which raised over $50 million in Angel thru Series B funding and generated revenues close to $20 million in 4 years. Barbato was responsible for content acquisition of over 1500 hours, distribution into 40 million cable homes and establishing an online audience of 10 million unique visitors per month on 3 networks. At Ripetv, Octanetv and flow.tv Barbato developed forty different agreements covering $2 million.
Prior to this, Barbato was Head of Marketing for Starz Movie Channel responsible for a $30 million consumer marketing budget to promote Starz Movie Channel’s 7 networks in cable leading a team of forty-five employees. Barbato also launched Starz on Demand, gaining expertise in this area. Before Starz, as Head of Marketing for MGM TV, Barbato launched the first website for a major Studio in 1995 and launched 7 new first-run syndicated series. He was Founder of ScreenFriends, where Barbato assisted in raising over $2 million in angel financing, securing a $250,000 character sale to Universal and a $125,000 character sale to Primemedia. Prior to these positions Barbato was VP of Marketing at Genesis Entertainment, Senior Director for Sony International TV, and Director of Warner Bros. Int’l TV.
David’s long-standing commitment social innovation has made him a leader in the field. He has helped several socially minded companies get off the ground including most recently, EventMobi, a company that is helping “green” events by providing the tools to show organizers to build there own mobile event apps.
As a social experiment, in 2006, he founded ideaNation, a volunteer network to help raise consciousness through positive media. As well as, provide people with tools to build projects for social change. Projects included the “MS Climb” which has raised over $740,000 for MS in just over 2 years and a fundraising gala for “Hope House” inspired by Academy Award winning film “Born into Brothels”.
David has consulted to various levels of government and is known for producing international conferences, award shows and special events. His clients have included many social mission organizations including Special Olympics International, the Institute of Corporate Directors, the Centre for Social Innovation, Tides Foundation, Social, Enterprise Development Innovations (SEDI) and Canadian Business for Social Responsibility.
David is passionate about volunteerism and over the past 15 years, has provided leadership and expertise to many charities/non-profits and through events, helped raise over 2 million dollars.
One of David’s latest projects is building a social action campaign for the motion picture “Machine Gun Preacher” being released by Lionsgate next year and he continues to look for ways to contribute to the social change movement.
Henry Mauldin is one of the principal partners of SMTRG Partners, a multi discipline management and production company based in Los Angels and San Francisco. Prior to SMTRG Partners, Mr. Mauldin served as the Director of Talent Development and Recruiting for CNN Worldwide. Mr. Mauldin joined CNN in 2002 and was responsible for bringing in the current crop of news “stars” for the networks. He has helped recruit and develop talent as diverse as Anderson Cooper, Erica Hill, Soledad O’Brien, as well as the development of future stars including Roland Martin, Amy Holmes, T.J. Holmes and Brooke Anderson. Mr. Mauldin also served on the network’s Diversity Council, designed to ensure a diverse array of on-air talent and opportunities pertaining to diversity throughout the CNN networks. Being the executive in charge of the “look and feel” for the network on-air talent, Mr. Mauldin brought two decades of talent recruiting and development for television news and syndicated programming to CNN, having previously worked as president and co-founder of MM media, a successful broadcast consulting and talent recruiting company based in San Francisco. He has produced and executive produced pilots including, “Let’s Do Lunch,” an interview show featuring independent film directors and actors set in a cafe. Mr. Mauldin has also held various executive roles with Don Fitzpatrick Associates, one of the largest broadcast recruiting agencies in the country and founded HMI Management, a talent management company focusing on minority talent, around the country.
Kay is delighted and honored to be on the Advisory Board of the Festival. She is passionate about stories of transformation and the compelling lives of people who are making a difference. Her passion for screenwriting was ignited by a person whose life story was so irresistible that she wrote her first script after studying screenwriting at UCLA Extension’s Writers’ Program. Kay is currently working on a second script, and is committed to collaborative projects that benefit people and the planet.
Kay has travelled extensively throughout Asia and South America, and has a lifelong interest in the healing arts, spirituality, personal mastery, and world cultures. Her life mission is to creatively weave together and communicate about indigenous and modern ways of being, and to shed light on the most pressing challenges facing humanity and the planet today.
Ms. Sandberg’s academic background includes a Master’s Degree from Stanford University in cultural anthropology and extensive training in screenwriting, organization development, coaching, leadership, fund development, team building, communication, self-awareness tools, and “green” (ecologically sustainable) medicine. She is fluent in Japanese and Spanish.
Ms. Sandberg is Program Director of the Soul of Money Institute and is a fundraising partner of The Pachamama Alliance. She is the founder of a new social profit organization, the Global Force for Healing. All organizations are based in San Francisco, California. Kay has two adult children and lives with her ancient companion, Mollydog.
Drop by Drop: Water Stories, a video contest for youth created by the Social Change Film Festival & Institute (SCFFI), Channel G and EarthvisionZ, is now accepting submissions.
