On Feb. 6, the MPAA is putting on The Business of Show Business, "a high level summit on the American movie industry and its impact on the U.S. economy."

The venue is the Nan Tucker McEvoy Auditorium at the Donald W. Reynolds Center for American Art and Portraiture located at 8th and G Streets NW. Registration: symposium@mpaa.org

Panelists:

Panel 1: The Art and Economics of ShowBusiness and Intellectual Property: How a Movie Gets Made
TIME: 9:30 - 10:45 a.m.
Participants:
Paris Barclay, DGA First Vice President, Emmy Award-winning director; television credits include NYPD Blue, West Wing, Cold Case, CSI, Lost, The Shield, and ER
Lindsay Doran, BAFTA Award-winning producer and Oscar nominee; film credits include Ferris Bueller's Day Off, This is Spinal Tap, Ghost, The Firm, Sense and Sensibility, Nanny McPhee and Stranger Than Fiction
Lili Zanuck, DGA member and Oscar-winning producer; directing and producing credits include Rush, Cocoon (producer), Driving Miss Daisy (producer), Mulholland Falls, Revelations, and From the Earth to the Moon (TV)

Panel 2: The Impact of ShowBusiness and Intellectual Property: America’s Growth Engine
TIME: 11 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Moderated by James Glassman, Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute; Editor-in-
Chief, The American Magazine
Participants:
Congressman Howard Berman, Chairman, Intellectual Property Subcommittee, House Committee on the Judiciary
John Engler, President, National Association of Manufacturers
Taylor Hackford, DGA Third Vice President, Oscar-winning director; film credits include Ray, White Nights, An Officer and a Gentleman, Proof of Life, Against All Odds, Everybody’s All American, Chuck Berry: Hail! Hail! Rock n’ Roll, and La Bamba (producer)
Stephen Siwek, Principal, Economists Incorporated

Panel 3: The Future of ShowBusiness: Entertainment in the Digital Age
TIME: 2:15 - 3 p.m.
Moderated by Bob Dowling, Former Editor-in-Chief and Publisher, The Hollywood Reporter; Founder, The Bob Dowling Group
Participants:
Reed Hastings, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Netflix
John Fithian, President, National Association of Theatre Owners
Ashwin Navin, President, Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder, BitTorrent, Inc.
Steven Soderbergh, DGA National Vice President, Oscar-winning director; film credits include The Good German, Ocean's Eleven and Twelve, K Street (TV), Traffic, Erin Brockovich, Out of Sight, and Sex, Lies & Videotape
David Weil, Chief Executive Officer, Anschutz Film Group (Walden Media ~ Bristol
Bay Productions)

All this -- plus lunch at the Hotel Monaco.

posted by James DeLong @ 11:05 AM | Markets: Business, Investment & Innovation

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