MadeHereFF-Brochure 2024 Web - Flipbook - Page 4
SPEAKERS AND PANELISTS ----------------EMILY BEST
Emily Best is the founder and CEO of Seed&Spark, a platform
that makes entertainment more diverse, inclusive, connected and
essential. Seed&Spark’s platform and national education program
have helped thousands of bold storytellers raise millions to bring
to life entirely new stories, and Seed&Spark delivers those stories
into workplaces for employee training, engagement, and intelligence
through an enterprise SaaS platform Film Forward. Film Forward gathers the qualitative
and quantitative data essential for driving lasting structural change for inclusive and
productive workplaces.
RICK CLARK
Film/TV Music Supervisor Rick Clark’s credits include working
with Jason Reitman on Up In The Air, Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt
Me (a 昀椀lm about the critically acclaimed band Big Star), Billy Bob
Thornton’s Jayne Mans昀椀eld’s Car, the AMC episodic Western show
Hell On Wheels, Oprah Winfrey’s Gospel drama Greenleaf for the
OWN network and Sundance TV’s Hap and Leonard, which was
nominated Best Music Supervision in a Television Drama for the
2019 Guild of Music Supervisor Awards. Most recently, Clark has
been Music Supervising the AMC Navajo crime drama Dark Winds,
which is produced by George R.R. Martin and Robert Redford.
MICHAEL DIBIASIO-ORNELAS
Michael DiBiasio-Ornelas is an award-winning writer and 昀椀lmmaker
currently residing in St. George, Vermont, whose latest 昀椀lm The
Yorkie Werewolf (his fourth and wildest feature 昀椀lm), is screening
at MHFF. His previous feature, The Sleepless, was named “Best
U.S. Feature” by the 2020 New York Independent Cinema Awards,
“Best Drama” at the 2020 Alternative Film Festival, and “Best
Experimental Feature” at the 2020 Montreal Independent Film
Festival.
NEIL CLEARY
Neil Cleary has worked for the past 10 years as a music supervisor on projects for
Lexus, Expedia, and Toyota. As a composer, he has written music for PBS, Nickelodeon,
Volvo, Intel, among independent documentary projects.
PAGE 4
MADE HERE FILM FESTIVAL 2024
