SBIFF 2015: Creative Forces: Women in the Biz panel announced!

The 30th Santa Barbara International Film Festival, presented by UGG® Australia, is pleased to announce the participants of the wildly popular Creative Forces:  Women in the Biz panel, which takes place on Saturday, February 7.  Moderator Madelyn Hammond, President, Madelyn Hammond & Assoc., and Former Chief Marketing Officer for Variety, will guide this assembly of creative and powerful women discussing not only their own individual careers, but collectively what they have faced as women in the industry.



The panel will feature:

• Bonnie Arnold  (producer of the Academy Award-nominated How to Train Your Dragon 2 and newly-crowned co-President of Dreamworks Animation)
• Carolyn Blackwood (executive producer, Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies)
• Kristin Hahn (executive producer, Cake)
• Rory Kennedy (director of the Academy Award-nominated documentary feature, Last Days in Vietnam)
• Aneta Kopacz (director and writer of the nominated live-action short film, Joanna)
• Joanna Natasegara (producer of Academy Award nominated documentary Virunga)
• Kristina Reed (producer of the nominated animated short film Feast).   

The forum is sponsored by Brooks Institute. Click HERE for tickets.