DAVID MAGDAEL:

TC:DM & ASSOCIATES

As founder and president of TC:DM & Associates (The Company: David Magdael & Associates), David Magdael's company continues to specialize in documentaries, independent films, directors, and public affairs issues. From developing Oscar® campaigns for documentaries to creating film festival strategies for filmmakers and indie films to television broadcast publicity to theatrical release public relations and film unit publicity, TC:DM & Associates has become an important entertainment communications firm that boasts a client roster including numerous Academy Award winning and nominated documentary films, Sundance Film Festival Award winners, Toronto International Film Festival standouts, Tribeca Film Festival gems and independent films, as well as studio projects and television broadcast films for HBO America Undercover, Cinemax Reel Life, AMC TV, WE, Bravo, A&E, FX TV, VH-1 and MTV Films. Film projects include: Super Size Me; Control Room; Mad Hot Ballroom; Rock School; Spellbound; Imelda; The Kid Stays in the Picture; The Eyes of Tammy Faye; Chain Camera; King Gimp; Big Mama; The Personals; The Motel; Better Luck Tomorrow; Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle; Tai Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War; Untold Scandal; Gozu; and many others. Go to www.tcdm-associates.com for more information. Mr. Magdael is also the Co-Director of the Visual Communications VC Film Fest - The LA Asian Pacific Film Festival, the largest festival of its kind showcasing Asian American and Asian international films. He is also the creator and founder of the APA First Weekend Film Club, a bi-weekly newsletter keeping over 14,000 subscribers across the nation informed about Asian American and Asian international films being released in the U.S. to encourage opening weekend box office numbers. Industry insiders have credited the APA First Weekend Club and its grass roots/street team/internet marketing strategies for opening weekend success for indie films such as Bend it Like Beckham, Better Luck Tomorrow, Whale Rider, and Harold and Kumar go to White Castle. In addition, Mr. Magdael is on the advisory board for the AFI Silver Docs Film Festival, is a programming consultant to the Louis Vuitton Hawaii International Film Festival, and sits on the Advisory Board for the Los Angeles Film Festival.

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!)