Wednesday, May 22nd, 2019

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Track II: Herscher Hall, 2nd Floor, Room 202

Women & Original Content: From Film/TV, Internet Video and Influencer Campaigns to Games

Mira Crisp, Creative Director, Ayzenberg Group

Katie Koeblitz, Head of Independent Content apparentlyjack, (Producer, Galveston)

Audrey Povar, Development Producer, WhoHaha

Anastasia Ashman, Cofounder & COO, 10 Block

Sarah Penna, co-founder, Frolic

Karinna Karsten, CEO, Love TV

Marlene Sharp, Director, Production, LEVEL-5 abby, Moderator

Sarah Penna, co-founder Frolic: A successful entrepreneur and digital media executive, Sarah Penna is currently the co-founder of Frolic Media, a new content destination celebrating all things romance and pop culture. Previously, Sarah co-foundered Big Frame, the first digital-only talent management firm with a roster of over 300 influencers and combined 70+ million YouTube subscribers. Dubbed “CAA for the digital set,” Big Frame was acquired by AwesomenessTV in April 2014. Following the acquisition, Sarah joined Awesomeness as the Head of Awestruck, a millennial-moms focused network

and grew the MCN to over 60 million views monthly. Sarah sits on the board of the non-profit Groceryships that focuses on food insecurity in South LA.

Audrey Povar is Head of Development for Whohaha - a female-driven digital content studio and community co-founded by Elizabeth Banks, whose goal is to shine a spotlight on funny women. Povar oversees the development of scripted and non-scripted content for WhoHaha's digital platforms, as well as collaborations with television networks, studios, and consumer brands. She has curated a slate of 22 series and launched the WhoHaha podcast network. Her branded work includes: producing the first-ever web series for Cosmopolitan; a 5-part video series for Universal Pictures to promote the release of Pitch Perfect 3; and a multi-platform campaign with Amazon Prime around the series premier of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, among others. This year she is most proud of the WhoHaha Creator Lab, which is a community-facing program to nurture and grow talent while developing and providing filming resources to bring their content to life. Prior to WhoHaha, Povar spent four years as a producer for NBC’s Emmy winning series The Voice. “I am fortunate to have established a solid foundation in production and story development with The Voice, but taking that experience to help WhoHaha's mission is my biggest professional achievement yet.”

Katie Koeblitz, Head of Independent Content, apparentlyjack: With over ten years producing Independent Film, Katie Koeblitz is currently the Head of Independent Content at LA-based content studio, apparentlyjack. Katie’s production background includes work on both narrative and documentary feature films. Most recently, Katie produced documentaries G-Funk, A More Civil War, and The Untitled MMW Documentary. On the narrative side of Independent Film, Katie co-produced 2016 film The Land, and the 2018 South by Southwest darling Galveston, directed by Melanie Laurent, starring Elle Fanning and Ben Foster. Katie also had a hand in the coming-of-age film The Kings of Summer, which went onto premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in 2013. Katie is a champion for Women in the Entertainment industry and has a passion for telling diverse stories. Katie has directed one such story under the apparentlyjack umbrella and looks forward to more.

Marlene Sharp, Director, Production at LEVEL-5 abby: Marlene Sharp is a creative and business-savvy entertainment multi-hyphenate who originally hails from New Orleans but is now a Valley girl. She currently is Director, Production at LEVEL-5 abby, home of YO-KAI WATCH, INAZUMA ELEVEN, SNACK WORLD, and LAYTON DETECTIVE AGENCY. As former Producer, TV Series, at Sega of America, Marlene worked on much more than the Teen Choice Award-nominated cartoon “Sonic Boom.” For example, her Hedgehog duties took her to the heights of nerd-dom as an official San Diego Comic-Con 2017 panelist. As a freelance journalist, Marlene concentrates on popular entertainment for Geekified.net. As a short filmmaker, she has snagged recent prizes at the Canine Film Festival and the San Luis Obispo Film Festival. And as a human being, basically, she loves dogs.

Mira Crisp, Creative Director, Ayzenberg Group: As a creative leader at the Ayzenberg Group, an advertising collective with multi-millions in annual billing, Mira Crisp has worked with big brands and bright stars. She thrives in that magical place where creative thinking, innovative technology, and human beings meet. A hybrid creative with expertise in traditional, interactive, digital and broadcast media, Mira’s background spans against both agencies and brands. Mira joined Ayzenberg in 2016 and is a founder of their Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging initiative. Mira is a global hippie kid with the weird names and dual-citizenship to prove it.

ANASTASIA ASHMAN, Cofounder & COO, 10 Block (formerly called Second Screen) Anastasia is a longtime creative in tech. She’s the chief operating officer of a mobile streaming platform that not only turns great movies and TV into bite-size blocks you can discover, binge and share on your phone, but also helps content owners reach today’s mobile viewers in an addictive social community. As a digital media executive, she has a background as an advisor to startups, investors and accelerators and has led early growth, product strategy, operations and community building at a social publishing platform in San Francisco. In New York she was a magazine editor on Internet technology. In Los Angeles, she worked at a major motion picture studio in business affairs and for producers of music, TV and Broadway theatre.

Karinna Karsten is the Founder and CEO of LOVE TV www.LOVETV.co a new digital media entertainment brand that has been called a sister to VICE. Karinna is also the founder of Sacredlove.com,  an internationally respected relationship expert, media personality, as well as an executive producer of Netflix classic, Sacred Love-Making. She brings credibility and a vast depth of knowledge on the subjects of Love, Sex and Intimacy.