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Investing in Media that Matters --

A Gathering at Sundance Village

 

 

Fact Sheet

 

 

Persons attending conference:                      210

 

Panelists speaking:                              34

 

Investors attending:                              66

 

 

Some social and environmental mission causes seen in entertainment:

 

  • Adoption
  • Alcohol awareness
  • Animal rights
  • Alternative fuel
  • Bicycle transportation
  • Designated driving
  • Child abuse
  • Civil rights
  • Clean ecosystems
  • Contraception
  • Disfigurement
  • Diversity
  • Drugs
  • Education
  • Elderly care
  • Energy
  • Health care
  • Healthy oceans
  • Homeless
  • Hunger
  • Military disarmament

 

  • Minorities
  • Nuclear weapons
  • Oil spills
  • Obesity
  • Pets
  • Protecting natural wildlife habitats
  • Population growth
  • Poverty
  • Power
  • Race
  • Rainforest
  • Reading appreciation
  • Renewable energy
  • Safe sex
  • Social Justice
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  • Spousal and elder abuse
  • Smog
  • SUVs
  • Wealth
  • Women's rights

 

 

Panelist and presenters who are participating in panel discussions:

 

 

  • Larry Aidem, President of Sundance Channel
  • Carol Atwood, CEO of Spartacus Media Enterprises
  • Ed Begley, Jr., actor and environmentalist
  • Howard Behar, entertainment lawyer, Proskauer Rose
  • Ken Brecher, Executive Director of Sundance Film Festival
  • Peter Broderick, President of Paradigm
  • Pierce Brosnan, actor
  • Brian Byrd, The Rockefeller Foundation
  • Ben Cohen, Co-founder Ben and Jerry's social mission investor
  • Walter Cronkite, broadcast journalist (via live feed)
  • Patricia Dandonoli, Director of Strategic Initiatives at Sundance Institute
  • Robert J. Dowling, Editor-in-Chief and Publisher, The Hollywood Reporter
  • Bob Estrin, President, John M. Lloyd Foundation
  • Mark Finser, President and CEO of the Rudolf Steiner Foundation
  • Paola Freccero, SVP programming for Sundance Channel
  • Stephen Friedman, Vice President, Strategic Partnerships & Public Affairs, MTV
  • Bill Gerber, producer and former Head of Features at Warner Bros.

 

  • Ray Halbritter, Oneida Indian Nation Representative & CEO
  • Jim Kearns, screenwriter for John Q
  • Dominic Kulick, Co-chair, Deal Flow Room
  • Sheryl Leach, entrepreneur
  • Debbie Levin, Executive Director of the Environmental Media Association.
  • Alec Lorimore, Academy Award nominated IMAX producer
  • Pat Mitchell, CEO and President of PBS
  • Marcy Murninghan, Harvard Professor and scholar in social mission media
  • John Norris, MTV News Correspondent & Special Programming Host
  • William Osborn, Investment Manager of Commons Capital
  • Jim Pitofsky, Co-chair, Deal Flow Room
  • Vicky Rideout, VP Kaiser Family Foundation
  • Louis Schwartzberg, filmmaker
  • Carla Shamberg, Executive Producer of Erin Brockovich
  • Paula Silver, former President of Columbia pictures marketing
  • Margery Tabankin, Executive Director of Righteous Persons Foundation
  • Woody Tasch, Chairman of Investors' Circle

 

 

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