E54 - Indie Panel: The Development Process - What It Is & How It Works

Welcome to our panel on The Development Process! 

 

Our guests are:

• Eden Perry - Development Exec & Producer
• Kate Imel - Dir of Development at Alloy Entertainment
• Loretta Ramos - SVP of Creative Affairs at Halfire Entertainment

 

Topics include:

• What is development?
• How do creators get the chance to pitch and how are projects decided on?
• What are the requirements for representation?
• How does development transition into production?

 

Loretta Ramos is Senior Vice President of Creative Affairs at Halfire Entertainment (Netflix’s Alias Grace), where she oversees all development and production for the company. Previously, Loretta was Bryan Fuller’s producing partner through his Living Dead Guy Productions, working on such critically-acclaimed projects as American Gods for Starz, Hannibal and Mockingbird Lane for NBC, and High Moon for SyFy.

 

Kate currently works at Alloy Entertainment as the Director of Development for TV. In her current role, she aids in the development and staffing of current and upcoming shows (Gossip Girl, The 100, Legacies) and focuses on developing new series with writers based on Alloy book properties or original ideas.

 

Eden currently splits her time as an in-house producer for Cyberia Media and as an independent creative producer, developing scripted projects for film and TV. She formerly worked as a development executive for Adaptive studios under their Project Greenlight Digital banner. She has also enjoyed working with the Catalyst team over the years and most recently oversaw programming as the festival’s VP of Programming in 2019. She has a young dachshund named Ponce de Leon who she is very proud of and who will probably bark at some point during this webinar.

 

Thank you to The Wrap, WDSE-WRPT in Duluth, and the National Academy of TV Arts & Sciences for supporting Catalyst Storieroad.