Don't miss meeting these two extraordinary speakers in from California and hear their "Insider's Tips On Selling To Hollywood" August 5th at MPS Studios Dallas.
 Barbara M. Rubin is the founding partner of the entertainment law firm of Raskin Peter Rubin & Simon. Ms Rubin is a veteran entertainment
attorney who has put her extensive in-house studio business and legal
affairs experience at the service of writer/producers, actors,
directors and small production companies in both film and television.
The former head of Business and Legal Affairs for Spelling Television (reporting directly to Mr. Spelling), A&E Television Networks (West Coast) and Rysher Entertainment, Ms.
Rubin came up through the business and legal affairs departments of CBS
Television and Theatrical Films as well as Disney Television.
Twice elected to the Board of Governors of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and twice appointed to its Executive Committee, Ms. Rubin is an active member of the entertainment community. She served on the Emmy License Fee Negotiation Committee and currently is a representative to the Primetime Emmy Awards Committee. Ms. Rubin teaches "Negotiating the Writer's Deal" at UCLA and is a guest lecturer or panel moderator at USC, ATAS, Association of Talent Agents, CSUN, Woman In Film, California Bar Association, NAPTE, eWomenNetwork and Writers Guild of America.
Ms. Rubin's clients include, WGA Award-winner Ellen Weston (head writer, Guiding Light), Jeff Melvoin (executive producer, Alias and Army Wives), Bruce Zimmerman (writer/producer, Desperate Housewives, Judging Amy and CSI: Miami) and Alison Sweeney (Days of Our Lives and The Biggest Loser). Among the production companies the firm represents are BBC Worldwide Productions, Netflix (Red Envelope Entertainment), New Line Cinema, Maverick Films and GOTV.
Ms. Rubin serves on the Planning Committee for the USC Institute on Entertainment Law and Business and she is the author of two cover articles for Los Angeles Lawyer: "The Secrets of the Business Affairs Executive" and "Negotiating with Media Giants." Emmy Magazine called Ms. Rubin "a top industry negotiator." Ms. Rubin is married to Emmy Award winning filmmaker, Pierre Sauvage and they have two children.
 Pat Quinn, the head of Quinn Media Management, is one of a handful of Hollywood executives known for spotting market
trends as well as for the quality and originality of the work she
represents and she has been an active and longstanding member of the
Hollywood creative community.
Ms. Quinn is a new media revenue source advisor to Hollywood and international producers and companies. One of her specialties is Programming Acquisitions and Co-Productions, and TV show packaging. Her clients include award winning screenwriters, and U.K. television series formats, which she packages for networks and cable. Clients include TV2 in Norway, TV3 in Ireland, the UK's Motive Television and TRC's International Development Programme sponsored by the UK channels BBC and Ch 4.
She has extensive entertainment industry experience in Hollywood including senior agent positions in the television, film, and theater departments at ICM, Metropolitan Talent Agency, Paradigm, and as an executive at Warner Bros. Television. She has sold projects recently to: Fox 2000, FX, ABC, CBS, A&E, NBC Universal Studios, ABC Family, Disney Channel, ESPN, Court TV, Sony, Showtime, Oxygen, HBO, and VH1.
Pat is on the Adjunct Faculty in Producing at Dodge College of Film and Media Arts at Chapman University. She has been a guest speaker the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, NATPE, AFI, USC, IFP, and the UCLA Anderson School of Business and Pepperdine University's Graziadio School of Business and Management. She is a graduate of Bennington College and Yale School of Drama.
Prior to
coming to Los Angeles, she was an executive developing, marketing and
producing projects for such major theatrical companies such as the
American Conservatory Theatre, American Repertory Theatre, the
Berkshire Theatre Festival and the National Playwrights’ Conference. In
the early stages of her career, Pat was a development consultant for
Robert Redford’s Sundance Film Institute/Sundance Film Festival.
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