THE ADVISORY BOARD
Louise Levison
 Louise Levison is President of Business Strategies in Sherman Oaks, California (www.moviemoney.com) specializing in creating business plans for films and film companies as well as financial consulting. Levison is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Entertainment Studies of the Extension Program at UCLA and is publisher and editor of "The Film Entrepreneur: A Newsletter for the Independent Filmmaker and Investor." Her clients have raised money for single films with budgets from $20,000 to $30 million, and companies with budgets as high as $300 million. She regularly conducts workshops on financing for film organizations and at festivals. Levison holds an M.A. in Asian Area Studies and an M.B.A. in finance.
Emanuel L. Wolf
As President and Chairperson of Allied Artists, Manny
has presented to the world some of its finest motion pictures.
His films include Cabaret
(Liza Minnelli, 10 Academy Award nominations and 8 Oscars),
Papillon (Dustin Hoffman
and Steve McQueen), The Man
Who Would Be King (Sean Connery, Michael Caine, 4 Academy Award nominations),
The Betsy (Sir Laurence
Olivier, Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones), and other classics.
Also under his guidance, Allied Artists distributed the
Academy Award winning foreign films A
Man and a Woman, Battle
of Algiers, Black and
White in Color, Belle
De Jour by Luis Bunuel, and Vittorio De Sica’s
classic love story A Brief
Vacation, which additionally won many major festival
awards.
Renato Romano
Renato Romano is the President and CEO of Euramco Entertainment
in Los Angeles, a worldwide motion picture/TV distribution
company. Euramco handles acquisition and foreign distribution
of U.S. Feature films, TV series, animated series, and
documentary films. Their clients include MCA Universal
Television, Paramount, MGM-UA, 20th Century Fox, Viacom,
Film Ventures, New Line Cinema, New World, and Embassy
Pictures. Renato has established sales offices for the
company at major international film markets such as
MIFED (Milan), MIPCOM (Cannes), NATPE, and AFMA and
has assembled an extensive library of U.S. Product for
international distribution, acquiring rights in perpetuity.
He is also the owner of Eurobridge Productions in Culver
City, a film/TV production and packaging company. In
2005, Renato Romano established the European Union Business
Council in Los Angeles (EUBC), a nonprofit council of
European Consuls General and Trade Commissioners, working
together to promote trade between Southern California
(in particular) and member and aspiring member nations
of the European Union, especially the emerging economies
of East Europe.
Cliff Hauser
Mr. Hauser started in the Motion Picture Advertising
business with eleven years of creative and account management
at the worldwide advertising firm of Diener-Hauser-Bates
in the New York and Los Angeles offices. He was responsible
for creative and media for five of the seven major studios
and some thirty-five smaller independents motion picture
and television companies. Over the next few years, Mr.
Hauser served as head of marketing at Paramount and
the Samuel Goldwyn, Company and as Creative Director
at 20th Century Fox. Hauser Advertising of Beverly Hills
was established in 1987 and continues to serve entertainment
and traditional corporate clients for branding, all
creative services, media placement and research.
Dale C. Olson
 In 1967, Mr. Olson joined the famous worldwide entertainment
public relations firm, Rogers and Cowan, where he rose
to Executive Vice President of the company, and President
of its motion picture division. Assisting them for over
18 years, they became a world leader in marketing campaigns.
In 1985, he started his own firm, Dale C. Olson and
Associates, which is currently one of the top public
relations offices based in Los Angeles. Throughout his
career, Dale has supervised more than 150 motion picture
campaigns, including launching the Rocky,
Superman, Rambo
and Halloween pictures,
and has been heavily involved in more than 25 successful
Oscar campaigns, from In
the Heat of the Night and Terms
of Endearment to, most recently, American
Beauty, Gladiator and Shrek.
Barry Arnold
An accomplished Writer, Designer, Director, and Producer,
Barry Arnold has been a member of the creative team
for numerous important productions, including many Broadway
shows. For Superman
producer Ilya Salkind and publicist Dale Olson, Barry
produced the largest live film promotion of all time,
placing a fleet of airplanes drawing mile high hearts
above Los Angeles on Valentine’s Day, which received
extensive international media coverage.
Nate Thomas
 Nate Thomas is a tenured Associate Professor of Cinema
and Television Arts and Head of the film production
program at California State University, Northridge where
in 1998 he was honored as the Outstanding Professor
in creative activity. Mr. Thomas won a Sony Innovator
Award in recognition of his film work and his recent
independent feature film entitled East
of Hope Street has received numerous awards and
critical acclaim.
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