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Cloud 21 & Kultura PR To Present Third Annual “Indie Entertainment Showcase 2020” in Park City, Utah on January 25, 2020
Event Panel to Feature Top Industry Names ‘Tesla’ Star Vincent De Paul, Ali M. Aksu, Renee Meriste and Tracy Vicory-Rosenquest; Moderated by Sue Vicory
The by-invitation only event will host a panel featuring the top names in the industry, including:
Ali M. Aksu, International Filmmaker
Born in Corum, Turkey and of Circassian ethnicity, Ali M. Aksu is an international film producer and entrepreneur. He is the executive producer of the groundbreaking film Laid in America, the first-ever feature film to cast YouTube celebrities and directors, that was distributed by Universal Studios. He is the executive producer of the recently launched feature Christmas Break-In, starring Danny Glover and Denise Richards.
He is the founder of Moon Lounge, a millennial content-based podcast dedicated for global grand challenges that was incubated at Singularity University. Aksu recently founded the film finance platforms filmmaker.aiandfilmcapital.io, next-generation movie production entities that employ data analytics on an extensive level, while producing content with the latest technologies.
He holds a B.A. in Economics, with a minor in film, TV and digital media from UCLA, and earned executive-level degrees from MIT, Wharton and Singularity University.
Vincent De Paul, Emmy Award-Winning Actor & Producer
Vincent De Paul is an award-winning actor and producer, whose prolific career of film & television spans two decades. De Paul received his first Emmy in 2015 and second consecutive Emmy in 2016 for producing The Bay, a series on Amazon Prime.
De Paul is the president and co-founder of Five Arts Films & Productions, and a current member of both the Producers Guild of America and Television Academy of Arts & Sciences. De Paul received the 2019 Best Actor Award at the inaugural French Riviera Film Festival for his performances in Gwyr: Reflections and Mattyboy. He is also the co-producer of the new documentary The Genius of Gianni Versace that was nominated for three CinéFashion Film Awards by Cinémoi TV.
Currently, he is in the cast of the 2020 Sundance official selection of the feature film Tesla, starring Ethan Hawke, Hannah Gross and Eve Hewson, directed by Michael Almereyda and distributed by Avi Lerner of Millennium.
Renee Meriste, Author, Entertainment Industry Expert
Entertainment industry expert, Estonian native Renee Meriste is the author of the new book
You Are The Influencer. The book takes a reader on a short, data-infused hyper lesson of the dos and don’ts of the music business, and can apply to really any field. Meriste brings 25 years of global music industry experience into the pages of this fact driven, fast paced read.
Meriste boasts extensive leadership experience in the entertainment industry in all forms of media, including publishing (print and online), music, television and film. He has held executive level positions at The Team Companies, Golden Media, Ethnopress, CD10 and Estonian Artist Agency.
Once a singer in a punk rock band, Meriste has guided careers and became the oversight person at a billion dollar media industry accounting firm. Today, he still spends time guiding artists and lecturing on the industry in the United States and Europe. Most recently, he was named the Transatlantic Promoter of the Year for his achievement in creating the Estonian American Business Alliance. He is the President of the Estonian Society of Los Angeles.
Tracy Vicory-Rosenquest is a dramatic writer, narrative artist, educator, entrepreneur, and mother living in Plattsburgh, NY with her husband, Chris and son, Miles. Her plays have been on stage in Minneapolis, Montreal, Seattle, and Plattsburgh. Her work has been performed with the SUNY Plattsburgh Theatre Department, Annex Theatre, Eclectic Theatre, Live Girls! Theater, Macha Monkey Productions, Pacific Play Company, Richard Hugo House, Seattle Playwrights’ Collective, Minnesota & Seattle Fringe Festivals, and The Schoolyard.
Her recent screenplay, Avec Son Pinceau (With Her Paintbrush), was commissioned by Ita Bullard and is currently in pre-production. Her play Shark was a finalist in FUSION Theater Company’s 8th Annual New Works Festival. Tracy’s book, After The Question, was published in 2014 as a companion book to One, an award-winning documentary produced by Heartland Films.
Vicory-Rosenquest received her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from Goddard College and has trained with ACT Theatre, Arts for Equity Institute with the Flynn Center for Performing Arts & The Clemmons Family Farm, Seattle Arts & Lectures, Washington State Art Commission’s TAT Lab, and more. She has taught at SUNY Plattsburgh, Clinton Community College, Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, Seattle Arts & Lecture’s Writers in the Schools, ACT Theatre’ Young Playwrights Program, and many others.
Sue Vicory, Moderator
Three time Telly Award-winning filmmaker Sue Vicory has been creating community-based films and projects within her not for profit production company Heartland Films, Inc. since 2003. Her works include Homelessness & the Power of One, feature documentaries One and Kansas City Jazz & Blues; Past, Present & Future and short films Absent and 1898, The W.F. Norman Story. In 2015, she founded Team XX, an all female team of 25 filmmakers that created the award-winning film Down Stage.
Vicory is a member of the Los Angeles-based Alliance of Women Directors and creator of the Website www.womendocumentaryfilmmakers.com, designed to increase visibility for female filmmakers. She is the creator of the non-profit brand My Power of One (MPO1). In 2015 under the MPO1 banner, she filmed a 48 state tour completing 12 Acts of Kindness. She is currently working on a feature documentary and short narrative parody film.
Event sponsors include Château de Berne and Nutrivista Water, and giftbag sponsors Butcher’s Bunches, SleepPhones, My Power of One and OrganiCBD.
Cloud 21 PR International and Kultura PR International have produced numerous successful industry special events, including the annual “Global Film Showcase” in partnership with ROSKINO during the Cannes Film Festival and Marché du Film, the annual “Production Without Borders” event during AFM and “A Salute to Akira Kurosawa” with China’s Jinke Entertainment in Cannes in 2017, plus many others. The companies have co-produced events and worked with top entertainment and technology brands, including E! Entertainment Television, Eurocinema, Metan Global Entertainment Group, 8K Miles Media Group, Maverick Entertainment, Sony Interactive, Oculus, Cinando, Euromed, ECU FilmFestival, Creative Coalition, Davines North America, Vesilind, plus many others.
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