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Paladin Invision
Paladin Invision is a multi Emmy Award® winning UK television production company. Paladin has produced programs for the BBC, PBS, C4, A&E and has had its programming shown around the world.
www.pitv.com/about.html

Alice Elliott and Welcome Change Productions
Alice Elliot is an Academy Award® nominated film producer who creates poignant, intimate documentaries which are distributed around the world.
www.newday.com/filmmakers/Alice_Elliott.html

Lady in Question is Charles Busch
Lady in Question is Charles Busch is produced by client, Two Lions Productions.   You can't think about the East Village in the Eighties without thinking about Charles Busch. Lady in Question is Charles Busch, the winner of The 2007 Glitter Award for best documentary, tells you why.
www.theladyinquestion.com

Joan Brooker-Marks, Midtown Films
Larry Flynt, publisher of Hustler Magazine, you either love him or you hate him. Larry Flynt: The Right to be Left Alone is a featured documentary tracing Flynt’s battle with the government over first amendment issues. Chronicling both the crazy and the critical, The Right to be Left Alone gives a lesson in being a citizen of the United States.
www.midtownfilms.com

H2Htv
H2Htv is a Netherlands based production company concentrating on performance programming. It created Andiamo a multi-platform music project highlighting three talented and handsome Italian Tenors; and Libera a beautiful PBS performance show featuring a boy chorus of consummate performers from age 7 to 14.
www.myspace.com/andiamotenors
www.libera.org.uk

Barry Lewis
 Barry Lewis is a familiar face on PBS. An architectural historian, Barry is known for leading television walking tours around the New York metropolitan area and putting the changing face of New York City into a personal context for his viewers.
www.barrylewis.org

Charles H. Green and Trusted Advisor Associates
Charles H. Green is an author, speaker and educator. He is co-author of The Trusted Advisor and author of Trust-Based Selling.
www.trustedadvisor.com

Alain Nu
 Magician and mentalist with a current series on TLC, Alain Nu catches flying darts in his bare hands and knows what you're thinking before you think it. All in all he's a force to be reckoned with.
www.alainnu.com

Life in a Box
 Three men, two musicians, one twenty by twenty foot trailer --- many adventures, Life in a Box shows you why love is hard and American folk music is alive and well.
www.afterelton.com/archive/elton/people/2005/9/cheslik-demeyer.html

Project Development

Everything is Art
Brooklyn-based production company, Acme Creative Enterprises, Inc., is currently developing an exploratory documentary called "Everything Is Art" for Ovation TV. Acme has produced a number of Emmy-award-winning television programs and is now also venturing into publishing with a children's book (and museum exhibition) entitled "Autism and Me."

Annie Wells: From an Arm's Length
From Arm's Length examines the story behind a series of astonishing photographs taken by Pulitzer Price winning photojournalist Annie Wells, documenting her courageous struggle with breast cancer and her difficult journey on the road to recovery.

Mediation and Arbitration

  • Royalty participation of film co-producers/co-writers based on creative contributions and final credit.
  • Independent television producer and cable network, over program distribution and claims of unmet first-refusal provisions.
  • Fees in a literary agency agreement where author contended that agency did not meet industry-minimum standards.
  • Fees for a known television personality arising from AFTRA Regulations Governing Agents collective bargaining agreement.
  • Various musical group tours where performance dates had to be cancelled due to performer's illness.
  • Trademark and copyright licensing agreements which included the right to use and sublicense characters.
  • Fees arising out radio network's music license agreements for individual stations.
  • Action brought by a major production company asserting unfair dealing and fraud in video distribution by top-ten video distributor.
  • Contract between manager and musical performance group over management services.
  • Film development agreement where investor held that producer did not shop the property pursuant to the contract terms.
  • A television syndication company and a production company, over syndication licenses and fees collected.
  • Licensing of theatrical rights to a producer for development and out of town performances prior to bringing a show to Broadway.
  • Joint venture partner bringing action against successor in interest of a bankrupt internet music distribution company.
  • Several infomercial agreements between production companies and product owners or advertising agencies on questions of production standards and appropriate deliverables.

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