Key Management

Mary E. Dickinson Chief Executive Officer

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Mary Dickinson has 20 years of experience in building businesses, investment and restructuring in the entertainment and sports sectors. She restructured and ran micro-cap media companies Teton Gravity Research (TGR). With extreme sports film production company TGR, she restructured debt with: banks, talent, and industry suppliers; secured representation with leading talent agency CAA; cut a mass market distribution DVD deal, developed multi-platform revenue streams; produced two NBC Primetime pilots with Ben Silverman’s television production company Reveille (producers of Biggest Loser, The Office, Ugly Betty); hired Aura 360 to secure and structure TGR's deal Jeep World of Adventure Sports TV series on NBC.

Charlene Fisher - President and Chief Operating Officer

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Charlene Fisher has 16 years of experience in business development and restructuring in the entertainment, sports and Internet industries. Fisher’s experience as both strategic planning and new business development consultant as well as well as CEO and president of small, cutting edge companies provides her with the operational and managerial experience DF Independent Studios (DFIS) will need to reach its greatest level of success.

Rita Chiappetta-Thibault - Chief Financial Officer

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Rita Chiappetta-Thibault is a long time industry veteran, most recently serving as executive vice president finance and accounting for New Line Home Entertainment. She started her entertainment finance career at Vestron Inc. where she supported senior management in executing a successful IPO raising $185 million and later divesting the companies assets to a competitive buyer.

Amy Slotnick - Executive Vice President of Production

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Amy Slotnick has been working as a studio production executive and independent film producer in the film industry for the past fifteen years. Amy started her career at Miramax Films working her way up to be senior vice president of production and development. She is currently executive vice president of production for DF Indie Studios (DFIS).

John Hadity - Consulting Head of Production & Production Finance

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John Hadity will oversee production and production finance for DF Indie Studios. John has been consulting to DFIS in this capacity for the past two years and will continue to do so after launch. John is also an industry recognized expert in tax incentives and is the Chairman of the Producers Guild of America East. He is the President and CEO of Hadity & Associates, Inc., a consultancy firm that specializes in risk management and production finance for film and television.

Ira Deutchman - Consulting Head of Distribution

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Ira Deutchman has been distributing films for 32 years, having worked on over 150 films including some of the most successful independent films of all time. He was one of the founders of Cinecom and later created Fine Line Features—two companies that were created from scratch and in their respective times, helped define the independent film business. Deutchman is also currently CEO of Emerging Pictures and a professor in the Graduate Film Division at Columbia University.