Anil Baral

Anil Baral is honored to have been accepted into the PGA Diversity Workshop for a television pilot, co-written with his wife and partner, Carla Blair. He has been awarded the Tribeca Institute & Sloan Foundation Grant for a biopic, A NOBLE AFFAIR, on the scientist, Marie Curie, co-written with Kathryn Maughan.  Currently, he is writing the book and producing a stage musical, ONE DAY, along with the co-writer and financier, Greg Mitchell; the lyricist, Brian Yorkey (awarded the Tony Award and  Pulitzer Prize for Next To Normal); and the composer, Woody Pak (Wedding Banquet, Making Tracks). Anil is also producing various projects including ETHEL, a biopic of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, written by Yon Motskin and with Elisabeth Moss (Mad Men) attached.

Anil’s awards include the New York Foundation for the Arts Geri Ashur Screenplay Grant for an epic World War II story about the Gurkha soldiers of Nepal. He was a producer on the internationally successful short musical film, Pretty Dead Girl, directed by Shawn Ku.

Before forming Fictitious Features, Anil worked as the Director of Development for the writer/director, Kimberly Peirce, where he had the fortune to interact with some of the best writers and producers in Hollywood.

Sarah DiLeo

Sarah DiLeo is currently in post-production on a feature adaptation of Rudolfo Anaya's award-winning novel Bless Me, Ultima. The film is written and directed by Carl Franklin and produced by Mark Johnson, Sarah DiLeo and Jesse B’Franklin with executive producer Christy Walton.

Sarah was the Supervising Producer on a slate of documentaries financed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, focused on individuals making a difference in education reform. These films were part of a large-scale initiative with partners including UCLA, Sundance Institute, Viacom and TED.

Sarah has been selected to participate in the BBC Studios training program in London, the Sundance Institute Independent Producers Conference, and the Film Independent Producers Lab, as well as Women in Film’s Mentorship Program. Prior to becoming a film producer, she worked in commercial production for Young & Rubicam and Bates Worldwide ad agencies.

Sarah received a BFA in Film Production from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where she was a National Merit Scholar and a Tisch Trustees Scholar. She received her MFA degree from the selective UCLA Producers Program, where she was awarded the Andrew Kuehn, Jr. Marketing Fellowship and the North American Theater Owners Fellowship in Film.

Beverley Gordon

Beverley Gordon is an award-winning producer who began her career as an attorney. She is currently the owner/ producer of the independent production company BrownBag Pictures. Her producing credits include independent feature films, CHUTNEY POPCORN, starring Jill Hennessy, and THE OTHER BROTHER, starring Mekhi Phifer, Tangi Miller, and Regina Hall.

Beverley is a graduate of the American Film Institute, receiving an MFA in the discipline of producing. Beverley’s AFI thesis film, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, was a winner of the 2005 Student Academy Award. It has also been screened in over 25 film festivals nationally and internationally and has aired on HBO, Showtime, SiTV and on Canal+ Nordic.

Currently, Beverley is in development on a slate of projects that include the hip-hop feature HIT THE SWITCH (fka GAME) -- which was a participant in the Tribeca Film Institute’s All Access Program, dark comedy SCOUT -- a 2011 Producers Guild of America Diversity Workshop participant, the romantic comedy SINGLETINI, a western feature OUTLAW – also a 2011 Producers Guild of America Diversity Workshop participant, in addition to screenplay adaptations of several novels.

Beverley is a graduate of Harvard University and received a JD from Tulane Law School where she studied entertainment and sports law.

Ibrahim Abdel Haq

Ibrahim Abdel Haq is a line producer, location manager and owner of Filmix Production Services. He has an extensive cultural and Middle East historical knowledge and has represented Jordan during “Jordan Road Show” in the United States and Canada. Ibrahim worked with and helped promote award winning TV shows, documentaries, and feature films such as Departures, The Bedouin, Peace After Marriage, and many more. He has been featured in multiple magazines, articles, radio stations and many media outlets such as L.A. Times, Chicago Tribune, Overlander Magazine, and WGVU-FM 88.5- Florida.

Ibrahim completed his education at the Arab Open University with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature. He aspires to use his experience and knowledge in the film industry to help promote cultural diversity, tolerance, and peace.

Ibrahim’s interest in cultural diversity issues was sparked when he was in middle school. He participated in a multi-cultural theatre play. The play was sponsored by a non-profit organization with the goal of fostering cultural diversity. This was a defining moment that allowed him to plan and dedicate the rest of his life to leaving a positive footprint and improving the Jordanian and Middle Eastern image using art and the film industry.

Jan Johnson Goldberger

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Hollie Overton

Raised in Kingsville, Texas, Hollie spent the first eighteen years plotting her escape. An identical twin, she worked hard to stand out.  When her jazz trombone dream fizzled and she scored only two points in her less than promising basketball career, she was convinced her talents lay in telling stories.  She made her way to the Big Apple, where she studied acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Literature at Hunter College and mixology in Murray Hill.
 
Arriving in LA, Hollie continued to hone her talents, appearing in indie films and TNT’s Leverage while working a myriad of jobs, including aiding the lovelorn on JDate, Match.com and eHarmony, personally writing several dozen Internet dating profiles. Hollie has been recognized for memoir writing, receiving honors in 2006 and 2008 Writer’s Digest Competition, as well as being honored by Personal Journaling Magazine. She most recently worked as staff writer on the final season of CBS drama, COLD CASE after graduating from the Warner Brothers Writers Workshop. Hollie’s character-driven procedural pilot Bad Habits received First Place in the 2010 Scriptapalooza TV Writing Competition and she is thrilled to be selected for this year’s PGA’s Diversity Workshop. Hollie is repped by MetaMorphic Entertainment.

Ricardo Salinas

Ricardo graduated with two Bachelor of Arts degrees from San Francisco State University, Broadcasting Communication and Speech Communication.
 
He is an original member of the performance trio known as Culture Clash, now in its 27th year. As a theater artist, writer, comedian, and activist, Ricardo has created searing satire and biting drama for the national stage. Along with his CC collaborators, he has written more than a dozen plays and has played over 5000 shows on stages across the United States. Ricardo has performed at the Kennedy Center, the Lincoln Center, Off-Broadway, Repertory theaters and colleges across the country too numerous to name.  What started as a weekend experiment on Cinco de Mayo in San Francisco’s Mission District, has turned into a life long commitment of forging a unique role and voice on the national stage.
 
“Culture Clash”, the television sketch show was the first ever Latino themed half hour sketch comedy show ever, airing for Fox TV and syndicated across the country. Ricardo was a performer, writer and producer for that program.
 
He is currently the “Director” for the new Teatro Zinzanni show in S.F. A type of “Cirque de Soleil” under the tent show with a cast of twenty plus orchestra.

Thomas Thanangadan