Film Finance and Distribution Summit, November 27-28, 2006, Los Angeles

Film Finance and Distribution Summit, November 27-28, 2006, Los Angeles

NEW YORK, Oct. 31 /PRNewswire/ -- Strategic Research Institute's Film Finance and Distribution Summit is scheduled for November 27 to 28, 2006 in Los Angeles, CA.

Alternative investment opportunities in today's more corporate entertainment industry, where investors are able to mitigate risk have attracted Wall Street. Strategies and structures such as film hedging, private equity investments, film fund financing and distressed debt opportunities have all been looked at and capitalized on by various financial institutions in this lucrative yet capital intensive and risky arena with the hope of generating above average returns on invested capital.

In response, media companies (both large and small) have been repositioning themselves to take advantage of this relatively new willingness on the part of the investment community to allocate significant capital to a highly volatile industry. They have done so by providing more financial transparency and disclosure regarding accounting methods and both on and off balance sheet financing vehicles than was previously the case.

This year's forum will review these trends and examine investment potentials in a rapidly evolving and very in-demand marketplace.

SAMPLE LIST OF SPEAKERS INCLUDE:
--Dan Glickman, Chairman and CEO, Motion Pictures Association of America
--Greg Kulka, Director, Alternative Investments, New Mexico State
Investment Council
--Peter J. Dekom, Weissmann, Wolff, Bergman, Coleman, Grodin and Evall
--Mark Hutchison, CPA, Rothstein Kass & Co.
--Norman Aladjem, President, Paradigm
--Peter Abrams, Principal, Tapestry Films
--Hal "Corky" Kessler, Funkhouser Vegosen Liebman & Dunn Ltd.
--Jonathan Sanger, Grand Illusions Entertainment LLC
--Ed Elbert, Grand Illusions Entertainment LLC
--Michel Shane, Producer (and UCLA Professor), Hand Picked Films
--Jim Pasternak, DaDa Films
--Richard Marshall, DaDa Films
--Ian Schafer, Chief Executive Officer, Deep Focus
--Arthur De Vany, Professor Emeritus - Economics and Mathematical
Behavioral Sciences, University of California
--Robert Mayer, Chief Executive Officer, PeerApp
--Frank Childs, Partner, Pilot House Ventures Group LLC
--Joseph Laszlo, Research Director-Broadband Media, Jupiter Research
--Eileen M. Burke, Managing Director, D.B. Zwirn & Co., L.P.

*COMPLETE AGENDA AND REGISTRATION:

For complete conference information:
Go Online: www.srinstitute.com/film
Call: 800-599-4950 / 212-967-0095
Fax: 212-967-8021
E-mail: info@srinstitute.com

*Please mention priority code DPR001724 when registering.

Don Friedman
Vice President
Strategic Research Institute
Phone: 212.967.0095 ext. 270
dfriedman@srinstitute.com
www.srinstitute.com/film

Source: Strategic Research Institute

CONTACT: Don Friedman, Vice President of Strategic Research Institute,
+1-212-967-0095 ext. 270, dfriedman@srinstitute.com

Web site: http://www.srinstitute.com/film
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