Pitching your web series, ARG and Game Idea
A panel of experts evaluates 3-5 public pitches and provide feedback. Executives from networks, portals, agencies, studios and brands are standing by to take your pitch.
Moderator: Marc Hustvedt, Founder, Tubefilter
Dan Weinstein, Head of New Meida for Salient Media / Manager at the Collective
Max Benator, Vice President, Digital Media -- hud:sun Media
Amber J. Lawson, Comedy Publisher, Babelgum
David Harris, Director, Savage County, MTV
Presented by Tubefilter
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Amber J. Lawson, Comedy Publisher, Babelgum 
As Comedy Publisher, Amber J. Lawson oversees Babelgum’s international comedy business to develop, produce, package, program, market and distribute original series across Babelgum’s IPTV, fixed and mobile platforms. Lawson quickly had successes with The Onion Exclusives and Babelgum/Landline Originals series Kids Reenact & In 60 seconds which are consistently featured on Huffington Post, Mtv and Digg. This year, Lawson aggressively expanded the Comedy division, launching more than twenty new series and rolling them into Film and TV properties. In April 2010 she partnered with Streamy Award-winning Kevin Pollak for his directorial debut of VAMPED OUT to critical acclaim. Her work resulted in a 2009 Mobile Excellence, four 2010 Streamy’s nominations and a CTIA Award.
Before joining Babelgum, Lawson reigned as VP of Programming for maniaTV and EVP of Branded Entertainment. She used her integration expertise to work with numerous brands including ATT mobility, Wrigley’s, Doritos and Samsung.
Established as a true transmedia expert, Lawson’s speaking credits include Digital Hollywood, NATPE, NAB and SXSW. She discusses everything from monetizing original digital content to the mobile entertainment marketplace.
Lawson is a member of the Interactive Peer Group at the Academy of Television Arts & Science, IAWTV, WOW and Producers Guild of America. She is also the chairman of the IAWTV Awards committee.
David Harris, Director, Savage County, MTV
David Harris is a producer at MTV New Media and the co-writer and director of Savage County, a multiplatform horror movie, slated for release on all of MTV’s platforms in October of 2010. At MTV, David has worked on the creation and launch of jackassworld.com, the release of the digital movie jackass 2.5, and produced $5 Cover Memphis - a web series created and directed by Craig Brewer (Hustle & Flow, Black Snake Moan). David has been a panelist at the Sundance Film Festival, and lectured at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television. He has been a member of think tanks for Nokia and Fox Television studios. His UCLA MFA Thesis “HowDoISayThis?” was funded by mtvU and Cisco and won the 2007 SXSW Interactive award for Best Student Site. Prior to earning his MFA he was a Creative Director and Animé producer in Houston, TX.
Photos from the fall panel.
Digital Hollywood Content Summit IV - Wednesday, Oct 20, 2010
Summit Produced by:
Gerber Rigler Producing and Executive Consulting for Digital Hollywood.
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