E59 - Special Event: Practicing Your Pitch with APTV

The Catalyst Storieroad Institute proudly presents "The Pitch Process: From Creator to Executive" with (All People TV)."

 

You can watch the entire chain of events and see what happens as the pitch makes its way through the system of multiple layers of executives, just as a real pitch would. To do this, we have 5 real-life producers and executives joining and playing roles in a fictional network (All People TV) consisting of: 

 

• Brent Coble & Zeke Rodriguez Thomas (Director of Production & Development)
• Erica Kraus & Kimberley Browning (Senior Vice President & Vice President)
• Jennifer Vasquez (President of APTV)

 

Brent Coble currently serves as the Director, Production & Development at ViacomCBS Digital Studios. In this role, Brent leads Nickelodeon's digital creative strategy, content development, and series production for screens of every size! In his tenure, Nickelodeon's YouTube channel has launched 25 new original series, gaining 6.5M additional subscribers along with over 3.5B video views.

 

Zeke Rodrigues Thomas is an award winning filmmaker and on-camera talent with over a decade of experience in the entertainment industry. As Executive Producer at Mindjam Media he produced 'Don't Go Alone', a scripted anthology Halloween series for Nickelodeon as well as serving as showrunner on Super League Gaming's Minecraft City Champs also Nickelodeon. Most recently he's also served in a creative development capacity on 'Annie vs. Hayley: LeBake Off', Throw Back with Nickelodeon, and many other VDS projects.

 

Erica Kraus - Erica Kraus is a Producer, Development & Production Executive, and Creative Strategist, working in film and television. Erica was an Executive Producer with Ripple Entertainment, developing a slate of documentary and scripted original films & series. She recently produced the critically acclaimed series Take My Wife for NBCU, and feature documentary Origin Story, currently playing on Amazon Prime. Of late, Kraus was a Production, Development, and Creative Strategy Executive at Rampante, working with Time Inc. to develop a film and TV initiative across their many brands. While there she greenlit projects including emmy-nominated Mars Generation (2017 Sundance Film Festival opening night film.) She has developed and produced documentary, scripted, and unscripted TV and film for studios and networks including NBC, Fox, Showtime, Bravo, Warner Bros., PBS, Disney Channel and Youtube. Kraus is a 2017 Sundance Documentary Fellow, and member of the Producers Guild of America and the Television Academy.

 

Kimberley Browning - Kimberley Browning is a filmmaker and film festival programmer based in Los Angeles. Originally from Washington DC, she studied music and film at University of Southern California and began her production career at Disney’s Touchstone Television. Her directing and producing credits include docuseries for A&E Networks, as well as drama, comedy and lifestyle episodic programming for broadcast and digital platforms including ABC, Rollingstone.com, CBS, Warner Brothers, Comedy Central, RealNetworks and My Damn Channel. Kimberley is the founder and festival director of Hollywood Shorts Film Festival, launched in 1998. She serves as Associate Short Film Programmer at Tribeca Film Festival, and is the Senior Programmer at Catalyst Content Festival. Kimberley is the Executive Producer of HBO Access, a directing and writing fellowship program for emerging talent from diverse backgrounds in episodic television.

 

Jennifer Vasquez -Vice President of scripted programming at Awesomeness TV.

 

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