Hollywood Chills: Entertainment Panel & Party
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Join us at The Reserve in DTLA for our last Hollywood panel and party of 2017! Speakers include producers, editors, talent reps, and more! We will also celebrate Erman's 28th birthday.
Special guest speakers include:
Daniela Garcia-Brcek (literary manager, Circle of Confusion)
Melinda Hsu Taylor (co-executive producer of X-Men series "The Gifted. Credits include "Lost," "The Vampire Diaries," "Falling Skies," "Star Wars: The Clone Wars," "Medium")
Cortney Wilson (Producer/Director, NYLON News; associate producer, Topple Productions, "I Love Dick," "Transparent")
Tirsa Hackshaw (editor, "Luke Cage," "Jessica Jones," "The Punisher;" Writer/director of "Unmerciful Good Fortune" (2018))
Angela M. Catanzaro (editor, "Parenthood," "Suits," "Code Black," ""The Man in the High Castle," "The Foreigner," "Friday Night Lights")
Annie Rosevear (music, La La Land, Sing)
EG Daily, veteran voice actor (credits include Tommy Pickles of "Rugrats")
Music by DJ Aravi. @AraviOfficial. araviofficial.com
18+. Business casual. $40 at door for walk-ins.
About our speakers:
Daniela Garcia-Brcek is a literary manager at Circle of Confusion, a feature film & television production and management company with offices in New York and Los Angeles. Daniela identifies as a TCI – a third culture individual: Venezuelan-born, with a childhood in South East Asia, Daniela’s found her roots in the United States. Her international background informs her taste as she builds her roster of clients who have unique voices and backgrounds. Daniela holds a BA in Film Production with a minor in Film Producing from New York University.
Melinda Hsu Taylor is a Co-Executive Producer on Fox’s new X-men series The Gifted and a proud genre geek. Previous credits include Lost, The Vampire Diaries, Falling Skies, Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Medium, and drama pilots for NBC and Lifetime. She is an alum of the Warner Bros. TV Drama Writers' Workshop as well as the WGA Showrunner Training Program, and serves on the Advisory Board for the Sarah Jones Film Foundation, which fosters on-set safety through awareness and accountability.
TIRSA HACKSHAW is a Film Editor/Screenwriter/Director born in Westchester County New York. She attended U.C Berkeley (studying both pre med and the history of drama) where she earned a B.A. degree before landing a job at Lucasfilm. She then attended USC summer film school and was accepted into the renowned American Film Institute where she received her MFA in film editing. In 2012 she became one of the youngest members to be invited to join the prestigious ACE society. Moving fluidly between film and TV, edgy comedy and action packed 1 hour dramas, she has worked on many independent as well as studio projects including the Golden Globe winning series “House of Lies” and the groundbreaking critically acclaimed “Jessica Jones”, “Luke Cage”, and the upcoming “Punisher” for Marvel. In addition to editing Tirsa also uses her finely honed storytelling skills as a screenwriter. She has written 5 feature screenplays and several pilots. A documentary entitled “The Man of Two Havanas” (written, edited, and co-produced) won the Fledging Award at the 2006 IFP market and the Cuban equivalent of the Oscar. Tirsa is the author of an underground comic book series called "Killer Instinct", which she has also adapted into a complete trilogy for the big screen. Tirsa has worked with such creative talents as Tom DeSanto, Josh Berman, Greg Berlanti, Peter O’Fallon, Adam Shankman, John Ottman, Don Cheadle, Melissa Rosenberg, Matthew Carnahan and Joel Silver just to name a few. She is also a member of MENSA. Most recently Tirsa has been hired to write and direct the feature film adaptation of the award winning play “Unmerciful Good Fortune” by Edwin Sanchez. Production is expected to begin in Spring of 2018.
Angela M. Catanzaro is originally from St. Louis, Missouri, Angela relocated to Los Angeles to attend film school at UCLA. Her career began in post production sound and gradually transitioned to picture editorial, with her first editing job on the critically-acclaimed television series The Shield. Angela recently edited Martin Campbell’s action-thriller The Foreigner, starring Jackie Chan and Pierce Brosnan. Angela’s other credits include films and television pilots and series, including Parenthood, Suits, Code Black, The Man in the High Castle, and Friday Night Lights, with her work on the FNL series finale earning her an American Cinema Editors Eddie Award nomination. Angela is an avid equestrian, and lives in West LA with her husband and dogs.
Annie Rosevear is an accomplished flutist, pianist, vocalist, and composer. As a film composer, her music has been featured on Disney XD, Nickelodeon, ESPN, Primetime, The Cartoon Network, and several international TV networks. She recently scored the Emmy-nominated short film The Pacific Soldier, an Army documentary commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. In May 2017, she was awarded the "Best Musical Score" prize in the Los Angeles Live Film Scoring Festival where her music was performed live to picture by Helix Collective. In collaboration with ASCAP and LA Film Festival's Project Involve, she recently scored the short film Great Again. Additional recent credits include music copyist/prooofreader on Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, La La Land; Fox TV shows including Family Guy, American Dad, and The Simpsons; scoring assistant to Danny Elfman on The Circle; scoring intern to James Newton Howard on Mockingjay: Part 2, and Concussion (starring Will Smith); processed flute on Blood Father (starring Mel Gibson); and assistant orchestrator on Pixels (2015), Warcraft (2016), and Captain America: Civil War (2016). She continues to collaborate with the USC School of Cinematic Arts and has been a composer for numerous student film and animation projects which have been selected as winners in national and international film festivals. Her collaboration on Yizhou Li's animation Nice To Meeteor You was nominated at the 2016 Annie Awards for "Best Student Film".
Annie has been a winner in classical performance competitions throughout her life. She was recently invited to sing back-up vocals with Barry Manilow and has performed with The Utah Symphony, Grammy-nominated singer Sissel (Titanic), and Emmy-award-winning composers Kurt Bestor and Sam Cardon. She was awarded a publishing contract by R Legacy Entertainment for her win with an original instrumental composition in the 2013 International Composition Contest.
She completed her graduate studies in the Scoring For Motion Pictures and Television Program at The University of Southern California in 2015 and was recognized for her academic achievements at the Thornton School of Music Honors Convocation. She was awarded the ASCAP Foundation Betty Rose Scholarship and was honored at the ASCAP Foundation Awards Ceremony in New York City in December 2014. Selected to be a participant in the prestigious USC Thornton Board of Councilors Mentoring Program, she received the opportunity to be privately mentored by James Newton Howard. She was a participant in the 2015 ASCAP/NYU Film Scoring Workshop, and attended on the Women In Music Scholarship (The Sorel Organization). She received a Bachelor of Music in Media Music Studies from Brigham Young University in 2009, where she attended on a music scholarship.
Annie is actively involved in the music and film community and was recently featured among female film composers on the cover of AFM Local 47's July 2016 issue of "Overture"magazine.. She has been a member of the Utah Flute Association (UFA), is a current member of American Federation of Musicians Local 47, The Association of Media Composers and Lyricists (AMCL), The Society of Composers and Lyricists (SCL), Women in Film (WIF), Alliance for Women Film Composers (AWFC), and Music Teachers National Association (MTNA). She has been proactive as a music educator, adjudicating flutists in annual national and state music competitions and festivals in addition to teaching her own private students. She has been a guest speaker at BYU and Sweet Briar College.
Cortney Wilson is the Producer/Direct NYLON News, and associate producer of Topple Productions known for series I Love Dick and Transparent. NYLON News is her latest creation she did for Amazon/NYLON Magazine, a fun pop culture news show for millennials with writer/host/global Editor-in-Chief Gabrielle Korn.
The legendary E.G. Daily is a very successful triple threat as an actor, voiceover star and hit singer/songwriter. Daily just wrapped the upcoming feature film Mother’s Day starring Christina Ricci, Sharon Stone, and Courtney Cox. She also appears in Rob Zombie’s new film 31 as the bad-ass character, Sex-Head, premiering at Sundance 2016. EG performed on NBC’s The Voice Season 5, on Team Blake, embracing the competition with her gritty, powerful and emotional vocals. She is currently a host for Balcony TV LA, is the voice for Julius Jr. for Nick Jr., and also just headlined a powerful show at the iconic Whiskey on Sunset Blvd.
In addition, EG is featured as the cover girl for the PURETIMES Entertainment Magazine Winter Limited Edition. She wrote, produced, and starred in the critically acclaimed one woman show, Listen Closely, which is available for digital download on Amazon. Also available on Amazon is her Up Close & Personal Voiceover Seminar about the spirituality of success in the industry, as well as tips, tools, and how-to's of the expansive voiceover world.
E.G. Daily has starred in over 40 feature films including Pee Wee’s Big Adventure supporting Paul Reubens as Dotty. She is a premiere voice over actor for many hit animated TV & films, most notably as the voice of Tommy Pickles in the long-running Emmy-award winning Nickelodeon Rugrats TV series, and the features The Rugrats Movie, Rugrats in Paris and Rugrats Go Wild. She’s also the voice of Babe in the live-action feature Babe II: Pig in the City.
As a singer/songwriter, Daily co-wrote and co-produced four solo albums, "Wild Child" and "Lace Around the Wound" on A&M Records. As well as “Tearing Down The Walls” and “Changing Faces,” all available on iTunes. Several of E.G.'s songs soared to the top of Billboard's dance charts and became popular music videos, including "Say It, Say It" which was a #1 hit produced by John “Jelly Bean” Benitez, one of Madonna’s chart-topping producers.
“I’ve always been an actor doing crazy roles -- and a singer,” commented E.G. in a recent Comic Con interview. “The combination taught me how to play with my voice. Voiceover has nothing to do with your own body and face. It’s freedom, and I like that. As an on-camera actress, it all has to do with your body, wardrobe, and sets, and I like that as well.”
As an actress, E.G. recently had a role in a Nick Cassavetes film called My Sister's Keeper, starring Cameron Diaz and Alec Baldwin, as well as Cassavetes’ film Yellow. E.G.’s acting credits also include Street Music, Valley Girl, Streets of Fire, Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Fandango, Loverboy, Dogfight, and Devils Rejects.
E.G.’s notable TV appearances include a featured role on an episode of Friends, where she plays Phoebes ex-songwriting friend Leslie in the hilarious “Smelly Cat” episode. She also recently guest-starred on an episode of The Mentalist, as well as Second Chance Christmas.
Besides Tommy Pickles, E.G. has done voice overs for numerous animated series. These include The Powerpuff Girls (Buttercup), Curious George, Pound Puppies, and Avengers as the voice of Mockingbird, as well as Moonstone. Additional voice-over credits include Starship Troopers, Recess, Chalkzone, Eek! the Cat, Duck Days, Duckman, Jungle Cubs, Problem Child, and Baby Blues. She also provided the voice of Froggie in the feature film The Little Rascals, Bam Bam in The Flinstones, Lorenzo in the Academy Award winning feature film Lorenzo's Oil, and Baby Mumbles in the Academy Award winning Happy Feet directed by the acclaimed George Miller. Her VO for films also include Wreck-it Ralph and Happy Feet II.
Daily has also composed music and performed on a number of soundtracks, including Street Music, Thief of Hearts, Scarface, The Breakfast Club, Summer School and Better Off Dead. She has collaborated with many well-known producers, such as Giorgio Moroder, Keith Forsey, Stock-Aitken-Waterman, Jelly Bean Benitez and Harold Faltermeyer. In addition, she worked with producer Bob Ezrin on the song, "A Heart That's True" for the "Babe, Pig in the City" soundtrack. She also had featured songs in the movie My Sisters Keeper, as well as the film Yellow, both songs produced by the award winning Aaron Zigman and directed by Nick Casavettes.
