2018 State of the Entertainment Industry Conference Commemorative Program

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Irving Azoff Music Icon Award

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Chuck Lorre Commitment to California Award

Issa Rae Vanguard Award

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Welcome from the Co-chairs Kristin Cavanaugh, Sony Pictures Entertainment Christina Derenthal, Paramount Pictures Welcome to our seventh annual State of the Entertainment Industry Conference! Our goal has always been to bring the Hollywood community, business and industry executives, and public officials together to discuss the challenges and opportunities facing California’s signature industry.

Each year, the conference has grown – and this year is no exception.

Television producer Vin Di Bona will once again serve as our emcee, assuring that our program flows smoothly and on time with a dash of his signature humor! We’re honored to have Councilmember Mitch O’Farrell give us a Hollywood update and delighted that Kevin James is joining us, representing the Mayor’s Office of Film and Television Production.

We have several exciting sessions today, beginning with a Keynote Spotlight Conversation, featuring two legends from the Music Industry – Sir Lucian Grainge and Irving Azoff. They will be interviewed by late night host James Corden.

Some of the hottest developments in the Industry today involve Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality. We will have a panel of top experts inform us on the latest in the VR/AR field and what we can expect in the future.

Our panel includes Vicki Dobbs Beck from Lucasfilm, Karen Dufilho from Google Spotlight Stories, Ted Schilowitz from Paramount Pictures, Vikash Sharma from AT&T, and Jake Zim from Sony.

To tell us what the state of the Industry is in Southern California, we are pleased to have back with us Paul Audley from FilmL.A. and Amy Lemisch of the California Film Commission. We are looking forward to hearing the latest statistics on how production is faring in our region.

This year, we are excited to present our new Vanguard Award to Issa Rae, an exciting and talented content creator, as we recognize breakout creative talent in the Entertainment Industry.

To top it all off, we are thrilled to present our annual Commitment to California Award to Chuck Lorre, the producer of such popular television shows as The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon.

We offer an enormous thank you to our committee and to the many sponsors who have made this conference possible. And, of course, we extend a very special thank you to Variety, our media partner, whose team once again helped us assemble a top-notch program.

Enjoy the Conference!

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Welcome from the Hollywood Chamber Donelle Dadigan, Chair of the Board Leron Gubler, President & CEO For 97 years, the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce has been a strong advocate for the Entertainment Industry. When the Chamber was formed in 1921, the industry was still fledgling here. No one at that time could have foreseen that it would become the economic powerhouse for our region.

For decades thereafter, Hollywood was on top of the world. No one thought that the industry would ever leave Hollywood or that it might be endangered. After all, it had been associated with Hollywood for most of its existence. But then, other states and countries started to woo production with film and television incentives. First the movies-of-the week left. That was followed by feature movie productions and finally television series.

Suddenly, it became quite obvious that we were losing entertainment jobs by the thousands, and that there might not be an Industry much longer if we didn’t learn how to compete.

Fortunately, Industry supporters pulled together and worked with our California legislature to craft film and television incentives that are working today. Now stages, studios and other industry businesses are all operating at near capacity. And that means jobs – jobs that are local so our industry workers can live at home with their families rather than commute to other states and countries. For Hollywood, it means the Industry is moving back home, creating jobs that will help to revitalize this historic community and a huge boost to the economy.

This conference was created seven years ago with the intent of focusing attention on the threat that existed to our signature industry. This year, we will again provide an update on how the film and TV tax credits are working, but we will also look at so much more. Whether it is a discussion about the future of virtual reality and augmented reality, or an interview with legendary music icons, or honoring outstanding Industry figures, we will present another great conference filled with amazing content.

Congratulations and thanks to everyone who worked so hard to make this conference possible! We could not have done it without your help! And now, sit back and enjoy the program!

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STATE OF THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY CONFERENCE CONGRATULATIONS TO

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PROGRAM 8:30 a.m.

Registration opens Networking and Continental Breakfast

9:30 a.m.

Welcome from Conference Co-chairs Kristin Cavanaugh, Sony Pictures Entertainment Christina Derenthal, Paramount Pictures Conference Opening Donelle Dadigan, Chair of the Hollywood Chamber Opening Remarks Emcee Vin Di Bona Greetings from the City of L.A. Councilmember Mitch O’Farrell, 13th District

Vin Di Bona Welcome from the Mayor’s Office Kevin James, Mayor’s Office of Film & TV Production

KEYNOTE CONVERSATION

Sir Lucian Grainge Interviewer:

10:00 a.m.

Irving Azoff

James Corden

James Corden, TV Host Sir Lucian Grainge, Universal Music Group Irving Azoff, Azoff MSG Entertainment Music Icons Award presentation

PANEL DISCUSSION

10:30 a.m.

Tipping Point: Innovating VR/AR for All Virtual reality and augmented reality are often hailed as the next big thing in entertainment, transporting audiences to immersive worlds they’ve never experienced before. Leading VR/AR innovators and their partners discuss pushing the transformative entertainment category to succeed.

Vicki Dobbs Beck

Moderator: Panelists

Karen Dufilho

Ted Schilowitz

Vikash Sharma

Jake Zim

Andrew Wallenstein

Paul Audley

Amy Lemisch

Andrew Wallenstein, Variety Vicki Dobbs Beck, Lucasfilm’s ILMxLab Karen Dufilho, Google Spotlight Stories Ted Schilowitz, Paramount Pictures Vikash Sharma, AT&T’s OTT Media Products Jake Zim, Sony Pictures Entertainment

INDUSTRY REPORTS

11:15 a.m.

Film Production in L.A. 2018 Paul Audley, FilmL.A., Inc.

Film Tax Credits Update Amy Lemisch, California Film Commission

AWARDS

11:40 a.m.

Presentation of the Vanguard Award to Issa Rae Presented by Vin Di Bona Acceptance by Issa Rae 12 noon

LUNCHEON

Issa Rae

Presentation of Commitment to California Award to Chuck Lorre Presented by Christina Derenthal and Kristin Cavanaugh Interviewed by Daniel Holloway, Variety 1 p.m.

Adjourn Emcee Vin Di Bona Daniel Holloway

Chuck Lorre

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Speaker Profiles

PAUL AUDLEY Paul Audley serves as President of FilmL.A., Inc., a position he has held since 2008. While at FilmL.A., he has initiated a public education campaign, “Film Works”, moved their office to Hollywood, raised the organization’s profile, and has overseen improvements to FilmL.A.’s online permit system. His career path to Film L.A. included time as an attorney, chief of staff and counsel to a congressman, Deputy Secretary of the State of Connecticut, Mayor of Fairfield, CT; and Public Affairs Director for the City of Scottsdale.

In July 2007, Paul was recruited to become The Trust for Public Land’s first Arizona State Director.

IRVING AZOFF As Chairman and CEO of Full Stop Management (FSM), Irving Azoff is an American personal manager representing artists such as Eagles, Jon Bon Jovi, Gwen Stefani, Christina Aguilera, John Mayer, Journey, Van Halen, The Doobie Brothers, Travis Scott, Steely Dan, and entertainer Chelsea Handler.

He also helms a joint venture with The Madison Square Garden Company, Azoff MSG Entertainment, encompassing performance rights, facilities management and services, comedy and experiential marketing divisions, in addition to FSM. Previously, he served as chairman and CEO of Ticketmaster Entertainment and Executive Chairman of Live Nation Entertainment and CEO of Front Line Management. In 2012, he topped Billboard Magazine’s Power 100, being named the most powerful person in the music industry.

VICKI DOBBS BECK Vicki Dobbs Beck is the Executive in Charge of ILMxLAB, a new division launched in June 2015, whose mission is to create, develop and release premium, story-based Immersive Entertainment experiences for the home, theater and public venues. The division combines the storytelling and innovation talents of Lucasfilm, ILM and Skywalker Sound. Vicki has more than 29 years of broad-based management experience in the entertainment industry. She received her MBA from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business where she also completed her undergraduate studies.

KRISTIN CAVANAUGH Kristin Cavanaugh is Vice President, Studio & Production Affairs, for Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE). She oversees initiatives and policy that impact SPE’s regional corporate strategies, production activity and studio operations, and guides SPE’s entitlements with Culver City to develop the studio lot. She supports SPE’s motion picture, television and digital content groups’ physical production issues that involve government and external entities. She serves as a member of Film L.A.’s Community Relations Committee and its Research Advisory Task Force; as a studio liaison for Creative Future; and, is on the Board, Executive Committee and Women in Business Council of the Culver City Chamber of Commerce. She also represents SPE as a member of the Urban Land Institute (ULI), providing mentorship during ULI’s inaugural women’s program GROW. She has a B.A. in Film from Vassar College

JAMES CORDEN The multi-talented James Corden is known around the world as a Tony Award-winning performer on Broadway, a BAFTA-winning star of a UK television series, a feature film actor, an Emmy-winning host, writer, and producer in several genres of television. He can currently be seen hosting The Late Late Show which premiered on CBS in March 2015 which received an Emmy and achieved its highest ratings, with any host, since the show’s inception in 1995. Most recently, he hosted The 70th Annual Tony Awards, which garnered the highest number of viewers in 15 years. On TV, he stars in, produces, and writes the BAFTA-nominated comedy thriller The Wrong Mans. He has also performed on the big screen in Into the Woods, The Three Musketeers, Gullivers Travels and Begin Again.

CHRISTINA DERENTHAL Christina Derenthal is Senior Manager, Government & Community Affairs for Paramount Pictures. She oversees issues at the local level that impact the studio and its operations. Christina is responsible for cultivating and maintaining relationships with key stakeholders including local homeowner and business associations, visiting state, federal and international dignitaries, as well as business groups and entertainment trades. She represents Paramount on the Board of the Hollywood Chamber, is Co-Chair of VICA’s Entertainment Committee and serves on FilmLA’s Community Relations Committee. Christina holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Communication Studies from the University of San Francisco.

KAREN DUFILHO Karen Dufilho is Executive Producer for Google Spotlight Stories and was instrumental in the creation of the group and its slate, which introduced immersive storytelling in mobile VR and VR at Google. Most recently, Karen was a producer on Patrick Osborne’s Pearl and Justin Lin’s VR debut, Help.

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VIN DI BONA Vin Di Bona is CEO of Vin Di Bona Productions and Chairman of FishBowl Worldwide Media. A four-time Emmy award-winning producer and eighttime Emmy nominee, he is the creator and executive producer of America’s Funniest Home Videos, the longest-running primetime entertainment show on ABC, now in its 29th year on the air. A pioneer in comedic reality programming and 50-year entertainment industry veteran, his diversified experience in producing and directing includes television movies, broadcast and cable series, network specials, music award shows and variety programming. Under his FishBowl banner, he currently has scripted and unscripted projects in development at ABC, Fox, Bravo, TruTV, VH1, and Adult Swim.

He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2007.

SIR LUCIAN GRAINGE Sir Lucian Grainge is Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Universal Music Group (UMG), the world leader in music-based entertainment. He has spent his entire career in the music industry and signed and worked with many worldwide stars, including ABBA, Elton John, Jay Z, Katy Perry, Queen, Rihanna, The Rolling Stones, Ariana Grande, U2 and Amy Winehouse, among many others. Over the span of three decades at UMG, he not only pioneered new approaches to the signing and development of the world’s most successful recording artists and songwriters, but he has also consistently championed the development of innovative business models and partnerships with a wide range of technology and media partners. His inspiring leadership has been recognized for returning the music industry to growth after suffering more than a decade of decline.

DANIEL HOLLOWAY Daniel Holloway is Executive Editor, TV, for Variety, where he writes about entertainment programming and the creative community. He has written extensively about the changing economics of the television business, as well as sexual-harassment and workplace abuse in the entertainment industry.

He previously served as programming and digital-media editor at the television trade Broadcasting & Cable and executive editor of the performing arts weekly Backstage.

KEVIN JAMES Kevin James is the President of the L.A. Board of Public Works and also serves as the Director and Chief Liaison of the Mayor’s Office of Film and Television Production, where he oversees the relationship between numerous City departments and the entertainment industry to make sure that film, television, commercial and music video production feels at home in the City of Los Angeles. He came to L.A. from Texas in the 1980s as an attorney with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. From there, he joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office. After serving as a Federal Prosecutor in L.A., he returned to private practice focusing on an entertainment litigation practice.

AMY LEMISCH Amy Lemisch is the Executive Director of the California Film Commission, an appointment she has held since 2004. In that capacity, she works to support California’s vital film production industry by offering support services. She was involved in the creation of the film and television tax incentives program and administers it. Prior to her appointment with the Film Commission, she was a producer for Penny Marshall’s company - Parkway Productions, at Universal Studios and Sony Pictures. She is a member of the Directors Guild of America and Producers Guild of America.

CHUCK LORRE Chuck Lorre is the co-creator and executive producer of blockbuster comedies including The Big Bang Theory, Young Sheldon, and the critically acclaimed Mom, all for CBS, as well as creator/executive producer of the upcoming comedy The Kominsky Method, which premiers on Netflix Nov. 16th. He got his start as a guitarist/singer, touring the country and writing pop songs. After more than a decade on the road, he turned his attention to television and began writing animation scripts for DIC and Marvel Productions as well as writing and producing the themes and scores for animated series. His big break came in 1991, when he became a supervising producer, and later a co-executive producer, on the groundbreaking comedy Roseanne. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2009.

COUNCILMEMBER MITCH O’FARRELL Councilman Mitch O’Farrell has served as councilman of the L.A. 13th Council District since 2013, which includes Hollywood. A member of the Wyandotte Native American tribe, he grew up in the Oklahoma City area. He moved to L.A. 36 years ago to continue his studies and work professionally in theatre and dance. After a career in the arts, he became a restaurant manager and manager trainer. In 2002, he began a career in public service as a deputy to then-councilman Eric Garcetti. A strong supporter of the entertainment industry, he is working to enhance Hollywood’s reputation as a world-class neighborhood in which to live and do business.

ISSA RAE With her own unique flare and infectious sense of humor, Issa Rae has received an Emmy nomination and two Golden Globe nominations for Best Actress for her hit show, HBO’s Insecure. Issa’s web series, The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, was the recipient of the coveted Shorty Award for Best Web Show and her first book, a collection of essays, is a New York Times Bestseller. Her upcoming feature films include an adaptation of Angie Thomas’s bestselling novel, The Hate U Give and Little, with Regina Hall and Marsai Martin.

TED SCHILOWITZ Ted Schilowitz is the Futurist at Paramount Pictures, where he works with studio leadership and the technology teams at Paramount/Viacom, exploring forms of new and emerging technologies, with an emphasis on Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality. Prior to joining Paramount, he was the Futurist at 20th Century Fox, where he worked on the evolving art, science and technology of advanced interactive visual storytelling. At RED Digital Cinema, he was an integral part of the product development team and a founding member and the company’s first employee. He has presented worldwide at numerous conferences on the advancements in next generation visual experiences for the movie, TV, and interactive entertainment industries.

VIKASH SHARMA Vikash Sharma is Director of Product Management for AT&T’s OTT Media Products. He works to create new features and oversees the ongoing evolution of streaming apps, DIRECTV NOW and WatchTV. Previously, he served on DIRECTV’s new platforms and applications team within the Digital Entertainment product group. Before that, he gained corporate strategy and business development experience at NTT Docomo-Tata JV in India. He holds an MSc. in Media Ventures (Product Management) from Boston University and received his BSc. in Economics and Finance from Quinnipiac University.

ANDREW WALLENSTEIN Andrew Wallenstein is Co-Editor-in-Chief, of Variety.com and Variety magazine. He has been with Variety since 2011, where he oversees daily and weekly coverage of the entertainment industry, with a focus on technology.

He was an on-air contributor for NPR’s All Things Considered for nearly a decade and also hosted the PBS series Variety Studio: Actors on Actors, and the TV Guide Channel’s Square Off, a weekly primetime series about the TV industry. He has a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University. His work has appeared in the New York Times, Boston Globe and Business Week. He was at The Hollywood Reporter from 2002 to 2010.

JAKE ZIM As Senior Vice President, Virtual Reality, at Sony Pictures, Jake Zim is tasked with building a slate of narrative virtual reality (VR) content for the studio’s motion picture group, working closely with a team of professionals from across Sony Pictures, who are dedicated to the production and distribution of VR. Previously, Senior VP, Digital Marketing, he oversaw promotional VR initiatives for the studio, including Ghostbusters: Dimension, the fully-immersive VR experience at Madame Tussauds New York, created in collaboration between Sony Pictures and The Void.

STATE OF OUR UNION. We proudly salute the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce and the 2018 Commitment to California honoree Chuck Lorre for their tremendous impact on entertainment.

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The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce would like to thank the 2018 Entertainment Conference Planning Committee who worked tirelessly in presenting this event.

CO-CHAIRS Kristin Cavanaugh, Sony Pictures Entertainment Christina Derenthal, Paramount Pictures

COMMITTEE MEMBERS Patrice Atiee, Variety Paul Audley, FilmL.A., Inc. Susanne Ault, Variety Sat Bisla, ANR Worldwide Eva Bitar, City of L.A. Vin Di Bona, FishBowl Worldwide Media Howard Green, The Walt Disney Company Bill Humphrey, Hudson Pacific Properties, Inc. Larry LaBoe, New Filmmakers L.A. Ilyanne Morden Kichaven, SAG-AFTRA Allison Sampson, Emerson College Maureen Schultz, Capitol Records Doug Troy, Trailer Park Arlen Valdivia, MPAA

STAFF Leron Gubler Kaylee Kiecker Nicole Shahenian Jacob Jauregui Danila Fraga Marlene Panoyan

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