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SCHEDULE

DOORS OPEN / CHECK-IN BEGINS AT 8:30am

Complimentary contintental breakfast and coffee will be served in the

Outside Terrace from 8:30am - 9:30am

*All panels and participants subject to change

OUTSIDE TERRACE

9:30am - 9:45am

START ME UP: Opening Remarks

with John Houlihan ('Deadpool' 'Peanuts' 'Southpaw') and 

Thomas Golubić  ('Breaking Bad', 'Better Call Saul', 'Grace and Frankie')

MAIN ROOM

(The Bill Bordy Media

Conference Center)

9:45am - 10:45am

MUSIC SUPERVISOR ROUND TABLE

with Ann Kline ('Shameless', 'Aquarius', 'The Goldbergs'), Tracy McKnight ('Beasts of No Nation', 'Outsiders', 'Bad Santa 2'), Danny Exum (Director of Music, Workshop Creative), Raphaella Lima (Global Music Marketing, Partnerships and Supervision, Electronic Arts), Michael Kotch (HiFi Project) -

Moderated by Amanda Krieg Thomas ('The Americans', 'Life In Pieces', 'Fake Off')

11:00am - 12:00pm

SYNC GEMS:

What Makes One Song More

‘Sync-able’ Than Another

with Rudy Chung ('Silicon Valley', 'Barry', Hit The Ground Running), Bonnie Greenberg ('The Hunting Ground', 'Stuart Little 2', 'Desperate Housewives'), Rochelle Holguin (Vice President and Head of Creative Music Services, MTV, VH1, & LOGO.), Gary Miller (Vice President Film & TV Music, Creative with Universal Music Publishing Group) -  Moderated by Jonathan McHugh ('Cowboy Drifter', 'We Are X', 'Janis: Little Girl Blue')

12:15pm - 1:00pm

WHY HIRE A MUSIC SUPERVISOR?

with Tricia Holloway (Director of Music, Freeform), Angie Rubin (Music Editor, '50 Shades of Grey', 'Pitch Perfect', 'Almost Christmas'), Ben Bumgarner (Editor, 'Good Girls Revolt', 'Hart of Dixie', 'The Astronaut Wives Club'), Jeff Cardoni (Composer, 'Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates', 'Training Day' (TV Series), 'Silicon Valley') - Moderated by Gary Calamar ('Man In The High Castle', 'True Blood', 'Wayward Pines')

LECTURE ROOM

(The DiBona Family Distance

Learning Center)

 9:45am - 10:30am

MUSIC CLEARANCE 2.0 

Expanding on the Basics

+ A Mock Negotiation

with Linda Osher (LJO Music Consulting), Denise Carver (CarverMusik), Ana Ruiz (Drive Music Publishing)

 12:00pm - 1:00pm

TECH TOOLS OF THE TRADE:

Optimizing and Hacking

Your Digital Workflow

with Sean Mulligan 

('Drunk Parents', 'Welcome To Me', 'Meadowland')

SCREENING ROOM

(Bright Family Screening Room)

 10:00am - 10:45am

VIDEO GAMES and

THE SOUND OF STAR WARS:

Following in the Footsteps of

John Williams

with Gordy Haab ('Star Wars: Battlefront', Composer and Orchestrator at Electronic Arts), Jesse Harlin (Composer, 'Star Wars: The Old Republic' - Dunderpate Music), Kevin Kiner (Composer, 'Star Wars: Clone Wars', 'Star Wars: Rebels') - Moderated by Steve Schnur (Worldwide Executive, Music, Electronic Arts)

11:00am - 12:00pm

WHAT IS TRAILERIZING?:

Enhancing Your Songs For Marketing

with Vanessa Jorge Perry (Music Supervisor), 

Marcy Bulkeley (Music Director, Wild Card AV),

Pete Campbell (Editor, Wild Card AV), Collin Perry (Partner / Director of Music & Business Affairs at Ninja Tracks)

12:15pm - 1:00pm

THE JOURNEY OF A SONG PLACEMENT

with John Houlihan ('Deadpool', 'Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates', 'Training Day'), 

Jackie Shuman (Good Ear Music Supervision: Apple, Target, Google, Samsung, Nike, Nissan),

Jabari Ali (President, Paragon Film Music, 'Waist Deep', 'Brooklyn's Finest', 'Gun Hill')

OUTSIDE TERRACE

1:00pm - 2:00pm  

NETWORKING LUNCH

(on-site and complimentary)

MAIN ROOM

(The Bill Bordy Media

Conference Center)

2:00pm - 3:00pm

COMMERCIAL BEAST:

The SUICIDE SQUAD Music Team Breaks Down Their Creative and Business Process

with Gabe Hilfer ('Suicide Squad', 'Vice Principals', 'Sausage Party'), Season Kent ('Suicide Squad', 'The Fault In Our Stars', 'Luke Cage'), Darren Higman (Executive Vice President, Music - Warner Bros. Pictures), Kevin Weaver (President Film & TV, Atlantic Records; Executive Vice President, The Atlantic Records Group) - Moderated by Nic Harcourt (Broadcast Journalist, Artist Manager)

3:15pm - 4:00pm

COMPOSING A BLOCKBUSTER: The Jungle Book's John Debney ('The Jungle Book', 'Ice Age: Collision Course', 'Iron Man 2') Interviewed by Richard Kraft (Kraft-Engel Management)

4:15pm - 5:00pm

TV MUSIC SUPERVISION:

A VIEW FROM THE INSIDE

with Alicen Schneider (Senior Vice President, Music Creative for NBC Universal), Tony Scudellari (Senior Vice President, Television Music for Sony Pictures Television), Ward Hake (Vice President of Music at 20th Century Fox Television)

Moderated by Joel C. High ('Madea' series, 'Dean')

5:15pm - 6:00pm

THE STATE OF MODERN MUSIC MARKETING IN FILM & TV

with Brian McNelis (SVP, Music and Soundtracks - Lakeshore Entertainment), Nikki Walsh (Manager, Film Music - Universal Pictures), Amanda Byers (Tunefind), Mike Fink (Sr. Director Industry Relations, Pandora) - Moderated by Evyen Klean ('Game of Thrones',  'Westworld' 'Bessie')

LECTURE ROOM

(The DiBona Family Distance

Learning Center)

 2:00pm - 2:45pm

MUSIC COORDINATOR TAKEOVER!

with Justine Von Winterfeldt ('Significant Mother', 'Pitch Perfect 2', 'Trolls'), Jen Malone ('Atlanta', 'Baskets', 'Ladylike' ), Lana Bui (Aspect) - Moderated by Garrett McElver ('Better Call Saul', 'Love (Season 2)', 'Grace and Frankie')

 5:15pm - 6:00pm

ON-CAMERA PERFORMANCE MECHANICS:

FROM SCRIPT TO SCREEN

A Case Study on Cinemax's 'Quarry'

with Greg Yaitanes (Showrunner, Director, Executive Producer - Quarry), Allen Marshall Palmer (Post Producer - Quarry), Joe DeAngelis (Re-Recording Mixer - Quarry),  PJ Bloom (Music Supervisor - Quarry)

 4:15pm - 5:00pm

CRIMES AND KINGDOMS:

A Music Supervision Process

with Madonna Wade-Reed ('American Crime', 'Reign')

 3:00pm - 4:00pm

METADATA STANDARDS

and SOLUTIONS:

Continuing the Discussion on How to Submit Music to Supervisors

with Jonathan Leahy ('Girls', 'Fruitvale Station', 'Survivor's Remorse'), Sarah Scarlata (411 Music Group)

SCREENING ROOM

(The Bright Family Screening Room)

 2:00pm - 2:45pm

HUG IT OUT:

SUPERVISOR vs. PUBLISHER

Top Pros Go Head-to-Head

with PJ Bloom ('American Horror Story', 'The People Vs. OJ Simpson', 'Scream Queens'), Ron Broitman (Executive Vice President, Head Of Synchronization - Warner/Chappell)

 3:00pm - 3:45pm

ANATOMY OF A SCENE:

AMC's 'Halt and Catch Fire' Episode: "Limbo"

with Christopher C. Rogers 

(Co-Creator, Showrunner, Writer - Halt and Catch Fire),

Jeff Freilich (Producer - Halt and Catch Fire), 

Thomas Golubić (Music Supervisor - Halt and Catch Fire)

 4:00pm - 5:00pm

DIFFICULT CLEARANCE CASES

AND PROBLEM SOLVING

with Randy Dolnick (Senior Director, Music & Licensing Strategy, Viacom Media Networks), Matthew Eversten (Creative Director, Moondog Music & RONIN), Sean Fernald ('Chelsea', 'Maggie', 'Kick-Ass 2'), Joe Berman (Co-Owner, Media Horse) - Moderated by Jeff Gray ('Nerdland', Fox Sports) and Abby North ('Whalburgers', 'Donnie Loves Jenny', North Music Group)

5:15pm - 6:00pm

PERFECT PAIRS:

HOW BRANDS CHOOSE BANDS

with Nickie Kolb (Mullen Lowe Group), Kristen Bushnell (Director, Creative Synchronization - Atlas Music Publishing), Matthew Hemerlein aka Lo-Fang (song-writer, producer, performer)

 Moderated by Lauren Reynaldo (Synch Manager, Secretly Canadian)

STUDIO ROOM

(Studio 255)

 2:00pm - 3:00pm

Breaking In:

Embracing Change and Opportunity

Presented by Berklee College of Music and Emerson College Los Angeles

with Joel Goodman (Composer, 'American Experience', 'An Honest Liar', 'The Diplomat'), Eve Nelson (Songwriter, Producer, Composer for Film & Television), Tim Luckow (Co-Founder & President, Stem Disintermedia), Jessica Rae Huber (Composer & Score Manager, Sparks and Shadows), Dan Viafore (Recording and Mix Engineer, Emerson Faculty), Gary Lister (Senior Vice President/Executive Creative Director, XAV) - Moderated by Peter Gordon (Director, Berklee Center in Los Angeles)

 3:15pm - 4:00pm

ASK ME ANYTHING:

LIVE Q&A with Frankie Pine ('Mozart In The Jungle', 'Nashville', 'The Ranch')

 4:15pm - 5:00pm

ASK ME ANYTHING:

LIVE Q&A with Jojo Villanueva ('Straight Outta Compton', 'Sing', 'Keanu')

 5:15pm - 5:45pm

ASK ME ANYTHING:

LIVE Q&A - John Houlihan and Thomas Golubić

OUTSIDE TERRACE

6:00pm - 8:00pm  

CLOSING REMARKS by John Houlihan & Thomas Golubić 

ON-SITE AFTER PARTY

(Complimentary food and drinks will be served.)

(Click Panel Titles for More Information!)

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