Panelist Profiles

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Jedd Katrancha

Jedd Katrancha
Jedd Katrancha currently serves as the VP of Creative at Downtown Music Services, a music marketing company that services both a publishing catalog (Nikki Sixx, Seal, Santigold, Arthur Baker, Antonina Armato, Troy Taylor, and more) and a network of record labels including Downtown Records, Eleven Seven, Cooking Vinyl, Naïve, and more. Jedd has orchestrated brand partnerships and music licenses for his artists and writers with Anheuser Busch, Verizon, Ask.com, Nike, Cadillac, Heineken, and more. Jedd Katrancha oversees strategic marketing efforts for Downtown Music and all related properties, including Downtown Records, Downtown Music Publishing, RCRD LBL.com, and Downtown Music Services, the largest licensing destination for independent music

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Adam Salky

Adam Salky made his feature film directorial debut with DARE, an official selection and Grand Jury Prize Nominee of the 2009 Sundance Film Festival in the Dramatic Competition Category. DARE was acquired by IMAGE Entertainment, and released theatrically in November of 2009. The film stars Emmy Rossum, Zach Gilford, Rooney Mara, Alan Cumming, Ana Gasteyer, and Sandra Bernhard and was produced by Mary Jane Skalski (THE STATION AGENT, THE VISITOR) and Jason Orans (GOODBYE SOLO, FLANNEL PAJAMAS). Salky has directed several award-winning short films, including a short version of DARE in 2003, on which the feature film is based. It screened in over 50 festivals around the world, garnered six ³best of² awards, and was picked up for distribution by Strand Releasing. In 2007, Salky filmed RECRUITER, a documentary short film, which was a finalist for the 2008 Student Academy Awards. THINGS THAT GO BUMP IN THE NIGHT, a short comedy that Salky wrote and directed, won a special jury prize at the 2005 Palm Beach Film Festival. A creative writing major, magna cum laude graduate of Emory University, Salky completed his MFA with honors at Columbia University's Graduate School of the Arts Film Division. His work at Columbia was recognized by three prestigious prizes ¬ The Kodak Cinematography Speaker Series grant, The Panasonic Kids Witness News Fellowship for his work teaching filmmaking to under-privileged inner-city kids, and The James Bridges Award, a production grant, one of the highest honors in the Columbia Film Division. Salky currently lives in Los Angeles

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Malik Yusef The Wordsmythc

Malik Yusef
is one Chicago’s Top 5 Most Featured Musical Artist listed only behind R. Kelly, Common, Twista, and Kanye West and is arguably the worlds most renown and famous spoken word musician. His national debut started with his on-set job training actor Larenz Tate for the movie “Love Jones” and was featured in the film. Malik was featured on Actor and Grammy Award wining artist Common’s Platinum selling “One Day It’ll All Make Sense” and Carl Thomas’s debut double platinum album “Emotional.” He served as the poster boy for Russell Simmons HBO’s Def Poetry Jam and won a Grammy with Kanye West for his poetry performance on “Late Registration” alongside The Game on “Crack Music” and has had several Grammy nominations including Grammy 2010 for his writing on Amazing by Kanye featuring Young Jezzy from the album “808 and Heartbreaks.”

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Guillermo De La Barreda

Guillermo De La Barreda
is currently Music Director at GrooveWorx (previously Groove Addicts) and Creative Director at Mucho Noize. A graduate of Berklee College Of Music, he’s composed, produced, arranged, and served as music consultant and supervisor on many commercials, documentaries, films and TV shows. For the past 10 years, Guillermo has produced over 1000 tracks and launched 4 new catalogs of Production Music.

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Louise E. Dembeck The AIMAC Center for ADR

Louise E. Dembeck
Founder of The AIMAC Center for Dispute Resolution and recognized, in 2007, as a Power Mediator in the Entertainment Industry by The Hollywood Reporter, Esq., Ms Dembeck is a full time dispute resolution professional providing services as an arbitrator and mediator in complex business, entertainment, intellectual property, and international disputes. Formerly a Time Warner Inc. Senior Vice-President, International, Ms. Dembeck also served as Time Warner’s Chief Intellectual Property Counsel for 25 years, including three years (1990-1993) during which she opened and ran the Time Warner, European corporate headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. Her career in the entertainment industry began as an Associate at Kaye Scholer followed by a stint as General Counsel to music publisher Shapiro, Bernstein, Inc. During her many years at Warner Communi-cations (and then Time Warner), she was intimately involved in all aspects of the entertainment industry from DC Comics Superman to the Warner Amex creation of MTV. In 1979, at the request of the Motion Picture Association of America, she wrote the FBI Warning Notice against unlawful reproduction of videocassettes which was adopted by the industry and appeared at the beginning of all pre-recorded videotape for many years.

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Visit our friends:

World Music Expo (www.WOMEX.com)

American Federation of Musicians
USA Songwriters Competition

Folk Alliance (www.folk.org)

 

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"The Cutting Edge is a must attend event for those who want to gain control over their music careers and make money in today's entertainment industry"

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News

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Check out the Cutting Edge issue of Indie Music Magazine online.
The Indie Music Magazine features the conference with full schedules posted with conference related articles.

 

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What’s Happening At The Cutting Edge?

Wednesday, August 25
Free to the public sponsored by T-Watt Amplifier and Wonderful Music Group
The public is invited to learn how a Business Plan for an entertainment company is developed and the importance revisiting your plan every year. The workshop will be a case study of two entertainment entities, T-Watt Amplifier, a highly rated product manufacturer and Audiosocket, a music licensing web company. You will hear from the CEO’s of both entities of how their companies intends to use their business plane and how they have used their plan to raise funds and make management decisions, lead by the Carmen Sunda, Director of the Louisiana Small Business Development Center (LSBDC) of Greater New Orleans. Learn what information is needed in order for a business plan to be taken seriously by banks and investors.
Product Expo and Demonstration by T-Watt, try out the top rated Amplifier and hear guitar phenomenon Jonathon “Boogie” Long and his guests demonstrate this amazing amplifier.
Mash-up Showcase sponsored by Wonderful Music Group: What is a Mash-up event?
The blending of music and music styles into something entirely new. Witness the craze the industry in talking about. (See NewWorks Showcase schedule for acts)

Thursday, August 26
Panel sessions begin in the Entertainment Law Seminar (bring your lap top, all materials is on Flash Drive) and continue with “Branding Your City a Music City” and finishing with a 2 hr Songwriters Panel and critiquing of Songwriters songs performed live (songwriters bring your lyric sheets)
Lifetime Achievement Award for New Orleans music legend “Deacon” John Moore with a musical tribute by the New Orleans Women in Music (NOWIM).
NewWorks Music Showcase at the House of Blues (sponsored by T-Watt) and the beginning of three nights of Songwriters hosted by Tony Moore, Bedford Live of London, an Internet broadcast at the Hard Rock Café view it live at http://www.justin.tv/thebedfordlive.
The Legendary Bedford is one of London's leading venues for Songwriters. Over the years it has launched the careers of KT Tunstall, Paolo Nutini, James Morrisson as well as a whole host of other great acts.

Friday, August 27
Entertainment CLE Luncheon with Peter J. Dekom, business sessions on Production Music as an Alternative Source of Income and the impact of the Gulf oil spill on Coastal Restoration and New Orleans tourism industry “From Bourbon Street to the Gulf.”
Keynote Interview of John L. Simson, Executive Director of SoundExchange by Jay Rosenthal, Esq. Executive Counsel, National Music Publisher Association (NMPA).
NewWorks Showcase’s “Friday in the French Market” happy hour event in Dutch Alley with “A Taste of New Orleans Seafood,” continues with “Rock The Wetland” at the House of Blues’ Parish Room.

Saturday, August 28
The Film Workshop begins with Reality Television vs. Scripted Television, and Film Meetups and end with the 48 Hour Film Project winners and screeners. The Business Sessions are packed with information on management, Marketing and music licensing and how to evaluate producer agreements.

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Schedules Posted!
New schedules have been posted and will be updated. Bookmark them for your convenience!

CE Schedule

CLE Schedule

FILM Schedule

NewWorks Schedule

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Approved by the Louisiana State MCLEfor 16.5 total Hours of CLE credits, including one hour of Ethics and one hour of Professionalism

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Peter J. Dekom, Esq.
Luncheon Speaker, CLE

Peter Dekom has been listed in Forbes among the top 100 lawyers in the United States and in Premiere Magazine as one of the 50 most powerful people in Hollywood. In 2009, Daily Variety named Dekom as one of the 15 top dealmaker-attorneys in the entertainment/media industry.

 

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"Deacon" John Moore
Lifetime Achievement Award
Friday, August 27, 6:30 pm

New Orleans music legend Willie "Tee" Turbinton once said of his friend Deacon John, "Everyone knows Deac can play, but that cat can sing." From '50s recording sessions with Little Richard, Allen Toussaint, Lee Dorsey and Ernie K-Doe at Cosimo Mattasa's studio to singing on his Jump Blues recordings, Deacon John is a New Orleans music treasure.

Deacon John will also be the subject of the oral history brunch, Sunday, August 29

 

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Showcase submissions open. All speaking requests must go to the Cutting Edge office.

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Keynote Interviewee

 

John Simson, Executive Director of SoundExchange.

SoundExchange is the first performance rights organization formed to collect digital performance royalties for sound recording copyright owners and recording artists.

 

 

 

 

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Stephanie Furgang Adwar, Esq., *Furgang & Adwar, L.L.P., New York

has volunteered to become Cutting Edge's Entertainment Law content
coordinator. New Orleans Attorneys Vernon Thomas and Judith DeFraites
will manage daily activities and CLE credits.

 

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The Continuing Legal Education topics has now been posted and will be updated. Bookmark it for your convenience!

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Call for panel proposals for the Cutting Edge Media Business Conference

The 18th Annual Cutting Edge Music Business Conference; Cutting Edge Film and Interactive Media Workshop, and Roots Music Gathering will be held August 25 –29, 2010 Westin New Orleans Canal Place, 100 Rue Iberville, New Orleans

The Cutting Edge is seeking innovative panel proposals in the areas of Media Business and law for its upcoming annual conference. Successful proposals should be of broad interest to members of the media business educators community, its students and media artists.

 

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Educators Request for Panel Proposals:The Cutting Edge is seeking innovative panel proposals in the areas of Media Business for its upcoming annual conference. Successful proposals should be of broad interest to members of the media business educators community, its students and media artists.

 

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