Dan Braun

Dan Braun is the co-founder and co-president of New York based Submarine Entertainment, a company whose services include film sales, distribution and marketing services, production and broadband content creation.

Mr. Braun, the chief creative and head of operations at Submarine has been involved with the sale of many feature films and documentaries including Man on Wire, Woody Allen an Untitled Documentary, Searching for Sugar Man, Tiny Furniture, Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work, Cutie and the Boxer, Black Rock, Food Inc, Muscle Shoals, Buck, 20 Ft from Stardom, Muscle Shoals, Dirty Wars, Queen of Versailles, among others.

Braun runs the subsidiary distribution label Submarine Deluxe of which recent theatrical releases include Chasing Ice which was short listed for the Academy Award and nominated for best song, Casting By, Dear Mr Watterson, GMO OMG! Love, Marilyn and Weekend of a Champion. DVD releases include deluxe double disc editions of Wild Style, Downtown 81 and Chasing Ice.

Braun is a producer on the upcoming Creepy feature anthology horror film to be directed by Chris Columbus and is a writer/editor on all the Creepy and Eerie line of comic books and archival volumes being published at Dark Horse Comics.

KRISTEN KONVITZ is the New York-based Manager of Film for global crowdfunding platform, Indiegogo. Her role includes acquiring projects in varying stages and overseeing them through all stages of their campaigns. She is instrumental in building relationships between both established and up and coming talent and also performs community outreach for the New York filmmaking community. Prior to joining Indiegogo, she spent 7 years as the Director of Acquisitions and Production at Wild Bunch, one of the leading independent film sales, financing & distribution companies. She began working in acquisitions at The Weinstein Company and made the transition to Wild Bunch to assist in opening its first U.S. office. She has also produced numerous award winning short films and music videos. Kristen holds a B.S. in media studies from New York University and a M.F.A. in film producing from Columbia University.

Matt Grady is the founder of Factory 25, an independent film distribution company launched in 2009. Factory 25 is a home for conceptually provocative narratives and documentaries. Grady’s mission is to deliver specialized film and music titles in an aesthetically captivating way while exposing the indie world to under-the-radar films, music, and other curiosities theatrically, digitally, on TV, VOD, via subscription, limited edition DVDs with vinyl LPs and books. Recent titles include SXSW films: Kid Thing, Sun Don't Shine and Pavilion. Factory 25 headquarters are in Brooklyn, New York.

RJ Millard has worked in the entertainment industry for twenty years. He currently runs his own marketing, publicity and sales agency, Obscured Pictures, representing films and filmmakers including MITT (Greg Whiteley), AFTERNOON OF A FAUN: TANAQUIL LE CLERCQ (Nancy Buirski), THE SQUARE (Jehane Noujaim), MATEO (Aaron Naar) and HAPPINESS (Thomas Balmes). As a corporate consultant, he has worked for Netflix, New Line Cinema, Paramount Vantage, IFC, and Warner Indepenent and oversaw the self-distrubition team for Lee Daniel’s debut, SHADOWBOXER.

He was recently VP of Publicity at Focus Features and previously served as the Senior Vice President, Marketing & Publicity for Samuel Goldwyn Films & Roadside Attractions. He was the Press Officer and national spokesperson for the Sundance Film Festival as well as the Marketing and Publicity Director for the Los Angeles Film Festival and has consulted on behalf of many other U.S. festivals.