How To Awards Season Your Film and Television Project

How To Awards Season Your Film and Television Project: A User's Guide to Navigating the Minefield of Modern Film Festival, Distribution and Exhibition

Date: Thursday, March 6, 2025

Time: 2:00PM - 5:00PM (PST)

Location: Kookaburra Lounge, Hollywood

Following our influential first Awards Season panel, this time we’re assembling a host of additional industry marketing pros in a speed dating format where these experts will offer as much valued advice available within the allotted time.
A modern guide to navigating the minefield of modern distribution via a select assemblage of multiple distributors, sales agents, producers' reps and envelope-pushing distribution rebels all in speed dating format.
Slots scheduled by RSVP Only.
Participants:
Lisa Lew- Co-Founder/President, P&L Media
P&L Media created the international hit, Judge Judy, which was the number one-rated daytime program in America, and many other courtroom shows. Lisa was a founding producer of the no-holds-barred upstart, A Current Affair with Maury Povich, a show that changed the way news is reported in America. From there she moved to Paramount’s rival news magazine Hard Copy and saw its ratings double. While on Judge Judy Lisa also helped to launch the Judge Joe Brown show that made the top ten in syndication. She went on to win three consecutive Emmy Awards for the critically acclaimed Cristina’s Court and again for “Last Shot With Judge Gunn” in the Legal/Courtroom category. She has produced four top-ten syndicated shows in the US, including Judy, Affair, Joe Brown and Hard Copy. Lisa had a central role in the success of The Montel Williams Show as an original producer on Montel’s first season in Los Angeles and delivered world exclusives for the landmark CBS daily magazine. Nominated for the Emmys ​n​ine times, a Genesis Award, ​won 8 Telly Awards Lisa has for 20 years excelled in senior positions on news magazines all over the world. Lisa’s producing record covers a list of the biggest news stories of our time, yet she is equally accomplished in developing strategic industry alliances and the promotional launch machinery that ensures success. She produced the top-rated one-hour Netflix special, Kardashian: The Man Who Saved OJ Simpson which broke rating records throughout the U.S. Lisa’s other documentaries include El Chapo & Sean Penn: Bungle in the Jungle, Time Presents: Celebrities on Trial and Time Presents: Milestones – A Tribute to the Stars We’ve Lost. Lisa is an Exec. Board Member of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. and a founder and exec producer of the Manila International Film Festival.

Winston F. Emano- Founder/Principle Partner, mano Y mano Media

WInston F. Emano is the founder/principal partner of mano Y mano Media, the premium, boutique media strategy firm he established which has repped more than 230 feature films and more than three dozen current NBA and NFL athletes. A noted specialist in award-winning, crafted, out-of-the-box campaigns and contemporary media training, his works have resulted in 28 All-Interview Team selections, 5 Academy Awards, 3 Peabody Awards and 2 Independent Spirit Awards, 2 Webbies and client endorsement valuations totaling well over a quarter of a billion dollars. He co-founded the popular annual Asian Filmmakers Reception at the Sundance Film Festival and has presented panels at SXSW, Los Angeles Independent, Nashville and Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festivals respectively. He is a proud founding board director of The Association for the Advancement of Filipino American Arts and Culture (FilAm ARTS, inc), CinemaSala and the Philippine Olympic Development Committee among many. A William Paley Scholar at Syracuse University, where he captained the men’s rugby team (A first for an Asian student-athlete at the school.), Winston was honored and privileged to have delivered the Keynote Addresses at both USC and Loyola Marymount’s Filipino Graduation Ceremonies.

David Magdael- Founder/President, David Magdael and Associates

David Magdael & Associates (DMAG-PR) specializes in publicity and marketing of documentary and independent films. Over the past 20 years, Magdael and his firm has worked on a number of award-winning films and documentaries. DMAGPR excels in strategy planning and implementation and working with new first-time filmmakers and veterans alongside the film’s sales and production teams. Other festivals include SXSW, TRIBECA, AFI DOCS, AFI FEST, TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, HOT DOCS, SF FILM FESTIVAL, IDFA, MILL VALLEY FILM FESTIVAL, DOC NYC, BERLINALE and more. Owner/CEO Magdael is a longtime member of Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) and is the co-director of the LA Asian Pacific Film Festival since 1997 and is also on the Advisory Board for SXSW. He serves as a mentor at the Sundance Institute Documentary Producers Lab and with other institutions, universities, festivals, media organizations including IDFA, AFI Docs, Film Independent, SXSW, AFI FEST, OUTFEST, CAAMFEST,IDA, USC, NYU, AMPAS and more

Annalee Paulo- President, Entertainment Marketing, 42West
Annalee Paulo has been promoted to president of 42West's West Coast Entertainment Marketing division, succeeding Susan Ciccone, who is leaving the company after 15 years. Paulo will work alongside East Coast President Tom Picchura, and together, they will oversee theatrical, streaming, corporate and personal PR campaigns as well as supervising the division's 30 employees. Paulo joined 42West in 2005 as a senior executive and has workded on campaigns for A24, Amazon, Apple TV+, Focus Features, Disney, HBO, HBO MAX, Funimation, Netflix and Lionsgate. She a;sp ;eads personal PR for clients like Darren Aronofsky, Rami Bahrani, David Chase, Justin Chon, Francis Ford Coppola, Scott Cooper, Roland Emma Tillinger Koskoff, David Leitch, Rob Marshall, Kelly McCormick, Phillis Nagy, Aaron Sorkin, Charles Randolph and Martin Scorsese

Bianca Parkes- Creative Director, Neon

Host or Publisher Manila International Film Festival