ERIC D'ARBELOFF:

ROADSHOW ATTRACTIONS

Eric d'Arbeloff is Co-President of Roadside Attractions, the company that released such box office hits as the Academy-Award nominated Super Size Me! , What the Bleep Do We Know? , Walk on Water, Ladies in Lavender, and Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic. d'Arbeloff founded Roadside with former agent Howard Cohen and Roadside shares a distribution staff with Samuel Goldwyn Films. Recent releases include Susan Seidelman's Boynton Beach Club about love among the senior set, the Duplass Brothers' twenty-something road comedy The Puffy Chair, and Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitcross' terrifying Road to Guantanamo. Coming up is Bobcat Golthwait's Sleeping Dogs Lie, a comedy about a woman whose embarrassing sexual secret from her past comes back to haunt her; Joey Lauren Adams' Southern drama Come Early Morning , starring Ashley Judd; and early next year, Michael Apted's Amazing Grace, the story of William Wilburforce's political battle to abolish slavery in Britain and the beginning of the 19th Century. d'Arbeloff was previously a producer of independent feature films. His credits include Lovely & Amazing, which received six Independent Spirit Award nominations including Best Picture; Trick, which was selected by the Museum of Modern Art in their post 9/11 tribute to films that celebrate Manhattan. d'Arbeloff was the instructor for the 2003 Producers Lab for Film Independent. He graduated from the University of Virginia in 1987 and Harvard Business School in 1993.

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!)