Independent Way-A Survey of Production
Coming June 2022: This course explores the avenues aspiring filmmakers and purveyors of content navigate to get their projects in front of buyers and distributors.
Kevin Bartel
Kevin Bartel is a multi-faceted and experienced production executive who has played a leading role in growing and evolving numerous production groups throughout his 10+ years in the business. Not only has he led the creation, development, and launch of numerous prolific series, in 2019 he also started his own production studio, Best Production Company. At 36, he has overseen as Executive Producer numerous series orders for shows across major broadcast, cable, and SVODs including Netflix, ABC, Discovery, Amazon, and Nat Geo Wild.
Last year, Bartel returned to the All3Media America family with the launch of a new production banner in their portfolio, Best Production Company. In his current role as CEO at the emerging company, Bartel is paving the way for unscripted content that defies genre -- focusing on raising the content bar with the production of cinematic, story-driven, and unconventional series. A few items they currently have within their diverse development slate include a feature doc exploring global leadership, a genre-bending natural history concept, a colorful workplace occu-soap, and two culinary formats.
Darrell Miller
Darrell Miller is the founding Chairman of the Entertainment Department at the national law firm of Fox Rothschild LLP.
He is a trusted advisor and deal-maker for many of America’s hottest stars -- like Angela Bassett, Courtney B. Vance, Jonathan Cain (from the Rock band “Journey), Justin Prentice, Daymond John, Cheo Hodari Coker (“Luke Cage” creator), Chris “Ludacris” Bridges, Bishop TD Jakes, to name a few.
For over two decades, Darrell has worked with individual, production, and institutional clients to leverage their careers and high brand equity into multiple streams of income. He is the author of the NAACP Image Award-nominated book, “The 16th Minute of Fame: An Insider’s Guide for Maintaining Success Beyond 15 Minutes of Fame”.
Michael Siegman
Michael Siegman is the Senior Vice President of Physical Production for BET Networks, a unit of ViacomCBS Inc. Siegman is a Production executive with 20+ years of experience in overseeing/managing broadcast, OTT, and digital media content with expertise in multi/single-camera scripted, unscripted, tentpoles, special events, talk shows, game/competition shows, and development.
Currently, he oversees the production of BET Networks’ original content for scripted and unscripted series. Responsibilities including budgeting, planning, production, scheduling, locations, crewing, and staffing.
He joined BETN in 2000 as a Production Manager to work on Comic View. During his career at BETN there were a number of firsts. He worked on the first BET Awards, Celebration of Gospel, Hip Hop Awards as well as the first in-house scripted shows on the Network. Prior to joining BETN in 2000, he worked on various shows from Keenen Ivory Wayans talk show to Shop Til You Drop. Over the years, he has relocated from Los Angeles to Atlanta and NYC for work and in 2015 moved back to LA to take over his current role of SVP, Physical Production. He is most proud of being given the opportunity to help create a full-service in-house Production Studio to produce scripted and non-scripted programming for BET in Atlanta. BETN produced The Game, Being Mary Jane, Sunday Best, Mo’Nique, The Steve Harvey Show, and multiple movies and pilots.
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