BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/Halifax X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Halifax BEGIN:VEVENT UID:54@devourfest.com DTSTART;TZID=America/Halifax:20131115T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20131115T113000 DTSTAMP:20131026T195132Z URL:https://devourfest.com/program/pitching-food-content-to-networks-produ ction-companies/ SUMMARY:Pitching Food Content to Networks & Production Companies DESCRIPTION:Are you the next Anthony Bourdain? Padma Lakshmi? Jamie Oliver? Some of the top culinary content creators and producers talk about what i t takes to craft the perfect pitch from the onset of a creative idea throu gh to execution and just how to break into this business on screen. This c ould even be your opportunity to pitch your very own cooking show in the r oom!\nLaurie Barnett\nLaurie Barnett is a veteran talent manager\, event p roducer\, project manager\, and sales and marketing executive with over 30 years experience.She is an entrepreneur with deep roots in the food and r estaurant business and the theatre.\n\nShe began her career as an actress and producer\, founding The Actor-Managers\, an actors’ collaborative. L ike many actors\, she waited tables to pay the rent\; soon she rose as a r estaurant professional. In 1990\, she became Director of Dining Services f or the Hearst Corporation. She installed a restaurant kitchen\, hired the first professional chefs\, raised culinary standards\, reduced the subsidy by 50%\, and produced special events for Race for the Cure and Taste of t he Nation.\n\nIn 1995\, Laurie joined The Food Group\, an ad agency for fo od service manufacturers\, including Lipton\, Kraft\, Nabisco\, and Uncle Ben’s. She created a new Event Marketing division\, became its Director\ , and produced over 40 multi-faceted events a year\, including events at t he 1996 and the 1997 National Restaurant Show. The department experienced double digit growth within 18 months. Upon the sale of The Food Group in 1 998\, Laurie became a consultant to clients including Restaurant Associate s\, Air France\, Chase Bank\, Estee Lauder Inc.\, The Omni Group\, New Yor k Times and The New Yorker. For Chef magazine\, she curated a Chef Des Che fs conference for pastry chefs\, featuring Jacques Torres\, Francois Payar d\, and Drew Shotts.\n\nIn 2001\, she joined the Royce Carlton lecture age ncy\, exclusively representing distinguished public intellectuals such as Thomas Friedman\, Dr. Fareed Zakaria\, Glenn Close\, and Edward Albee. She built sales of over $2.5 million per year and championed a popular culina ry group\, representing Lidia Bastianich\, Danny Meyer\, Ruth Reichl\, Ant hony Bourdain\, Eric Ripert and Jacques Pepin. Laurie was responsible for many aspects of clients' speaking careers\, including content development\ , contract negotiations\, finances\, and global logistics. Global accounts included IBM\, American Express\, major universities\, Barclay’s\, Bank of America. From 2011-2013 she took the helm to develop a boutique talent and event production division at Zero Point Zero\, the Emmy award winning production company\, well known for PARTS UNKNOWN on CNN with partner and executive producer\, Anthony Bourdain\, whom she represented since 2004. Among other clients are Eric Ripert\, Joe Bastianich\, Roy Choi\, Sam Cala gione\, and by special arrangement\, Andrew Zimmern.\n\nLaurie Barnett &am p\; Co\, the newest iteration of her journey\, is a collaborative boutique \, focusing on custom content programming for live events\, strategic part nerships across all platforms and special projects with celebrity talent a nd brands around the globe.\n\nRachel Low\nLow is an award-winning executi ve producer who has won five Gemini awards for her work in factual enterta inment and documentaries. Prior to joining forces with Hutt to found madHI VE MEDIA Low was President of Red Apple Entertainment where she oversaw th e development and production of hundreds of hours of programming for netwo rks including Biography\, CBC\, Discovery Canada\, Discovery Times\, Histo ry\, Food Network\, Court TV\, truTV\, Cooking Channel and international d istributors including Beyond Distribution\, RDF and IMG. She also served a s Vice President of Shaftesbury’s factual entertainment division. Low’ s hit series include several high profile Food series including Pitchin’ In\, Opening Soon\, Fink\, Chef School and From Spain with Love. Other hit s include Masterminds and Opening Soon By Design. Low executive produced t he one-hour drama doc Assault and Rescue for Discovery Canada. Her ground breaking documentaries include Why Men Cheat\, Gamer Revolution\, Who’s Sorry Now?\, Surviving the Future\, The End of Men\, The Disappearing Male \, and Talkin’ About AIDS. Low won a James Beard Award for Best Televisi on Special for Morimoto Raw\, for FOOD Network\, USA. She is currently exe cutive producing Gay Revolution for CBC\, After Digital for TVO and the Do cumentary Channel and the crime series Addicted to the Life for OWN Canada .\n\nKathy Cross\nAs Production Executive of Original Lifestyle Content fo r Shaw Media\, Kathy Cross oversees a slate of original lifestyle programm ing for Slice\, HGTV Canada and Food Network Canada. For the past 6 ½ yea rs\, she has worked closely with production companies to develop original series and follows projects from the inception of an idea through to broad cast. Some of her recent projects for Food Network Canada include Chopped Canada\, Chef Michael's Kitchen\, and Pitchin' In. Prior to her role as a Production Executive\, Kathy worked as a series producer and director of e ntertainment and lifestyle programming.\n\nSponsored by\n\nFilm &\; Cre ative Industries Nova Scotia LOCATION:Al Whittle Theatre - Studio Z\, 450 Main St\, Wolfville\, NS\, B4P 1E2\, Canada GEO:45.091618;-64.362640 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=450 Main St\, Wolfville\, N S\, B4P 1E2\, Canada;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Al Whittle Theatre - Studi o Z:geo:45.091618,-64.362640 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Halifax X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Halifax BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20131103T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0300 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:AST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR