PETER BRODERICK:

PARADIGM CONSULTING

Peter Broderick is President of Paradigm Consulting (www.peterbroderick.com), which helps filmmakers and media companies develop strategies to maximize distribution, audience, and revenues. In addition to advising on financing, sales, and marketing, Paradigm specializes in state-of-the-art distribution techniques?including innovative theatrical service deals, cutting edge video strategies (mixing retail and direct sales online), and new approaches to global distribution. It helps filmmakers reach target markets effectively and build core personal audiences, which will support future projects. Broderick was founder and President of Next Wave Films, which helped launch the careers of exceptionally talented filmmakers from the U.S. and abroad. A company of the Independent Film Channel, Next Wave supplied finishing funds and other vital support to filmmakers and financed digital features. Next Wave's features include: Christopher Nolan's Following; Joe Carnahan's Blood Guts Bullets & Octane; Julie Money's Envy; Ron Judkins' The Hi-Line; Jordan Melamed's Manic; Henry Barrial's Some Body; Kate Davis's Southern Comfort; Josh Aronson's Sound and Fury; David and Laurie Shapiro's Keep The River On Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale; Amir Bar-Lev's Fighter; Maxie Collier's Paper Chasers ;and Tony Fisher's The Trouble with Men and Women. Broderick played a key role in the growth of the ultra-low budget feature movement and has given presentations on digital production and distribution at major festivals (including Cannes, Sundance, and Berlin) and universities (including Harvard and UCLA). He has written articles for The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Economist, and Scientific American. He began his film career working with Terrence Malick on Days of Heaven. A graduate of Brown University, Cambridge University, and Yale Law School, he practiced law in Washington, DC. In 2004, Broderick launched www.filmstoseebeforeyouvote.com to harness the power of film to impact elections. In 2005, he executive produced Sir! No Sir!, a feature documentary about the GI movement against the war in Vietnam (Audience Award winner, Los Angeles Film Festival). Now focused on the revolution in independent distribution, Broderick is Co-Program Director of DigiMart, the Global Digital Distribution Summit, which brings together leaders of the digital revolution from around the world.

Panelists:

The current list of 2006 Filmmaker Forum speakers:

• Stephanie Allain (producer, Hustle & Flow)
• Aric Avelino (director, American Gun)
• Peter Broderick (Paradigm Consulting)
• Effie T. Brown (producer, Real Women Have Curves)
• Caldecott Chubb (ChubbCo) [Indie Community Lunch Hour host]
• Howard Cohen (Roadside Attractions)
• Patrick Creadon (director, Wordplay)
• Eric d'Arbeloff (Roadside Attractions)
• Mark Damon (Foresight Unlimited)
• Neill dela Llana (co-writer/co-director, Cavite)
• Kirby Dick (director, This Film is Not Yet Rated)
• Michael Donaldson (lawyer and author, Negotiating for Dummies) [Indie Community Lunch Hour host]
• Lindsay Doran (producer, Stranger Than Fiction)
• Dan Dubiecki (director, Thank You For Smoking)
• Udy Epstein (Seventh Art Releasing) [Indie Community Lunch Hour host]
• Mesh Flinders (lonelygirl15)
  
• Ian Gamazon (co-writer/co-Director, Cavite)
• Richard Gladstein (FilmColony)
• Micah Green (CAA)
• Rebecca Green (Linda Obst Productions) [Indie Community Lunch Hour host]
• Callum Greene (co-producer, Marie Antoinette)
• Matthew Greenfield (Fox Searchlight)
• Robert Greenwald (Director, Iraq for Sale )
• Greg Harrison (director, November) [Indie Community Lunch Hour host]
• Preston Holmes (producer, Waist Deep)
• Craig Kestel (William Morris Agency) [Indie Community Lunch Hour host]
• Sam Kitt (executive producer, Sucker Free City)
• Richard Klubeck (UTA)
  
• Ted Kroeber (producer, American Gun)
• Linda Lichter (Lichter, Grossman, Nichols, Adler, and Goodman)
• David Magdael (TC:DM & Associates)
• Gail Mutrux (producer, Kinsey)
• Christine O'Malley (producer, Wordplay)
• Joe Pichirallo (Overbrook Entertainment) [Indie Community Lunch Hour host]
• John Pierson (keynote speaker)
• Mark and Michael Polish (The Astronaut Farmer)
• Rich Raddon (director, Los Angeles Film Festival)
• Peggy Rajski (executive producer, Bee Season)
• Ben Rekhi (producer/director, Waterborne)
• Danielle Renfrew (producer, November)
• Kendall Morgan Rhodes (producer, Southland Tales)
• Rena Ronson (William Morris Independent)
• Ted Sarandos (Netflix)
• Jeff Schenck (Regent Studios)
• John Sloss (Cinetic Media)
• Victoria Thomas (casting director)
• Nancy Utley (Fox Searchlight)
• Cameron Watson (writer/director, Our Very Own)
• Eric Watson (producer, The Fountain)
• Lance Weiler (producer/writer/director, Head Trauma)
• Wash Westmoreland (co-writer/co-director, Quinceañera)
• Greg Whiteley (New York Doll)
• Caveh Zahedi (director, I Am a Sex Addict)
• Amotz Zakai (Echo Lake Entertainment) [Indie Community Lunch Hour host]
• David Zeiger (producer/director, Sir! No Sir!)