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With Ari Tan (Sr Dir. Strategy, Viacom), Lindsay Carlson (Snag Films), Ameet Shah (Sr VP Strategy, A+E Networks) & David Negrin (Screenwriters Collective).
Tue, Jul 28, 2015 @ 06:30 PM   $15   WeWork, 205 E 42nd St
 
     
 
 
              

      
 
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<P STYLE="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px; -webkit-hyphens: auto; background-color: transparent; font-size: 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: top; line-height: 24px; font-family: 'Proxima Nova', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #5f5b5b;" DIR="ltr"><SPAN STYLE="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: top; color: #000000;">Join over 60 industry professionals for an evening of connecting, learning, creative chats and UNLIMITED BEER & refreshments!</SPAN></P>
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<P STYLE="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px; -webkit-hyphens: auto; background-color: transparent; font-size: 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: top; line-height: 24px; font-family: 'Proxima Nova', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #5f5b5b;"><SPAN STYLE="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: top; color: #000000;">Today, media, as a whole, encompasses both the entertainment and the technology fields; this convergence drives many of the new platforms and publishers that seem to pop up almost daily. It's time to examine this three-sided coin with media, entertainment, and technology. <STRONG STYLE="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: top;">Does new media and today's technologies take shortcut with storytelling-resulting in lower standards for film & TV storytelling? Or do they raise our standards like never before?</STRONG></SPAN></P>
<P STYLE="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px; -webkit-hyphens: auto; background-color: transparent; font-size: 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: top; line-height: 24px; font-family: 'Proxima Nova', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #5f5b5b;"><SPAN STYLE="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: top; color: #00ffff;"><STRONG STYLE="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: top;">EVENT DETAILS</STRONG></SPAN><BR STYLE="box-sizing: border-box;"><SPAN STYLE="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: top; color: #000000;"><EM STYLE="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: top;">Date:</EM>Tuesday, July 28th</SPAN><BR STYLE="box-sizing: border-box;"><SPAN STYLE="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: top; color: #000000;"><EM STYLE="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: top;">Time:</EM>6:30pm to 9:30pm</SPAN><BR STYLE="box-sizing: border-box;"><SPAN STYLE="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: top; color: #000000;"><EM STYLE="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: top;">Where:</EM>WeWork, 205 East 42nd Street, 19th Floor</SPAN><BR STYLE="box-sizing: border-box;"><SPAN STYLE="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: top; color: #000000;"><EM STYLE="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: top;">Admission:</EM><STRONG STYLE="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: top;">FREE EARLY BIRD ADMISSION WITH RSVP BY 7/22/2015. </STRONG>Free Admission for Premium Eventsy Members;$15 GeneralAdmission; $20 Admission at the Door</SPAN><BR STYLE="box-sizing: border-box;"><SPAN STYLE="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: top; color: #000000;"><EM STYLE="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: top;">Dress code:</EM>casual/business casual - Dress to Impress our photographers will be taking your picture!</SPAN></P>
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<P STYLE="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px; -webkit-hyphens: auto; background-color: transparent; font-size: 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: top; line-height: 24px; font-family: 'Proxima Nova', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #5f5b5b;"><SPAN STYLE="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: top; color: #00ffff;"><STRONG STYLE="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: top;">MEET OUR PANELISTS</STRONG></SPAN></P>
<P STYLE="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px; -webkit-hyphens: auto; background-color: transparent; font-size: 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: top; line-height: 24px; font-family: 'Proxima Nova', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #5f5b5b;"><SPAN STYLE="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: top; color: #000000;"><STRONG STYLE="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: top;">Moderator: David Negrin</STRONG></SPAN></P>
<P STYLE="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px; -webkit-hyphens: auto; background-color: transparent; font-size: 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: top; line-height: 24px; font-family: 'Proxima Nova', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #5f5b5b;"><SPAN STYLE="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: top; color: #000000;">David Negrin is a screenwriter, producer, and professor of film and television at Hofstra University. He is Executive Director of the NYC Screenwriters Collective, the largest non-profit screenwriting workshop in New York City. He is host of 'The Script' Podcast and moderator of @ScriptFeed. He grew up in New York City and is an alumnus of The Bronx High School of Science.</SPAN></P>
<P STYLE="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px; -webkit-hyphens: auto; background-color: transparent; font-size: 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: top; line-height: 24px; font-family: 'Proxima Nova', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #5f5b5b;"><SPAN STYLE="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: top; color: #000000;"><STRONG STYLE="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: top;">Lindsay Carlson</STRONG></SPAN></P>
<P STYLE="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px; -webkit-hyphens: auto; background-color: transparent; font-size: 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: top; line-height: 24px; font-family: 'Proxima Nova', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #5f5b5b;" DIR="ltr"><SPAN STYLE="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: top; color: #000000;">Lindsay Carlson has worked for a number of different film distributors across the UK and US, since graduating from Oxford University (where she wrote her thesis on film).Lindsay's work has involved grassroots marketing, large-scale theatrical campaigns, film sales and, currently, film acquisitions and programming at SnagFilms - an online streaming service for independent film, documentary, shorts and web series. Lindsay is responsible for finding content of varying length and genre for the platform and creating meaningful content partnerships with filmmakers, producers and aggregators.</SPAN></P>
<P STYLE="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px; -webkit-hyphens: auto; background-color: transparent; font-size: 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: top; line-height: 24px; font-family: 'Proxima Nova', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #5f5b5b;" DIR="ltr"><SPAN STYLE="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: top; color: #000000;"><STRONG STYLE="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: top;">Ameet Shah</STRONG></SPAN></P>
<P STYLE="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px; -webkit-hyphens: auto; background-color: transparent; font-size: 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: top; line-height: 24px; font-family: 'Proxima Nova', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #5f5b5b;" DIR="ltr"><SPAN STYLE="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: top; color: #000000;">Ameet Shah, Senior Vice President, Corporate Development & Strategy, leads A+E Networks' newly formed corporate development and strategy department to drive growth through external investments, partnerships & acquisitions, and internal strategic planning to implement major business priorities in such areas as brand portfolio strategy, revenue diversification, digital and direct to consumer initiatives, and international opportunities. Ameet began his career as an investment banking analyst in JPMorgan's Latin America M&A group and taught second grade in Compton, CA as a Teach For America corps member.Ameet received his MBA from Harvard Business School and graduated with a B.S. in Economics/Political Science from Duke University.</SPAN></P>
<P STYLE="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px; -webkit-hyphens: auto; background-color: transparent; font-size: 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: top; line-height: 24px; font-family: 'Proxima Nova', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #5f5b5b;" DIR="ltr"><SPAN STYLE="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: top; color: #000000;"><STRONG STYLE="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: top;">Ari Tan</STRONG></SPAN></P>
<P STYLE="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px; -webkit-hyphens: auto; background-color: transparent; font-size: 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: top; line-height: 24px; font-family: 'Proxima Nova', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #5f5b5b;" DIR="ltr"><SPAN STYLE="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: top; color: #000000;">Ari Tan is Senior Director of Strategy, Business Development & Operations for the Content Distribution group at Viacom Media Networks. Ari is involved with developing strategic recommendations to guide distribution initiatives for the company's media network portfolio, which includes MTV, MTV2, MTV Hits, MTV Jams, Palladia, VH1, VH1 Classic, CMT, Logo, Nickelodeon, Nick at Nite, Nick Jr., TeenNick, COMEDY CENTRAL, SPIKE, TV Land, BET, Centric, Tr3s, and EPIX. With a deep understanding of market trends, consumer and distributor needs, new technologies and emerging platforms - such as VOD, OTT, interactive TV, advanced advertising, out-of-home linear streaming, and digital - he and his team lead the development and implementation of new products and business models that Viacom offers its distribution partners. Ari received a BS with Honors from Cornell University and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.</SPAN></P>
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<P STYLE="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 20px 0px; -webkit-hyphens: auto; background-color: transparent; font-size: 18px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: top; line-height: 24px; font-family: 'Proxima Nova', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #5f5b5b;" DIR="ltr"><SPAN STYLE="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: top; color: #000000;">The M/E/T launched its newest speaker series The Slow, Painful Death of Storytelling to examine how disruptive forces have challenged traditional methods of communication. The M/E/T produces events that cater to the converging interests of creative types from Media, Entertainment, and Tech. Events range from free monthly mixers around NYC, to seminars & workshops, panel discussions, and demo/pitch sessions. Join us on Facebook and Twitter to stay involved with The M/E/T, and join in the founder Kenneth Ong's simple mission: tell your story, and meet some really cool creative people along the way!</SPAN></P>
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