Ellis Jay
Pailet
E-Mail:Eliswondr@AOL.com
Attorney at Law - Music, Copyright, Film, and
Entertainment Law
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Attorney -Private Law Practice
Specialty:
Entertainment Law Partial List of Clients: Doug Kershaw, Brother Dave Gardner,
The Meters, Woody Herman, Charmaine Neville, Marva Wright, Irma Thomas, The
Dixie Cups, Frankie Ford, C.J. Chenier, Levon Helm, Carlos Stephens
(Producer/Writer for Master P & Lil' Romeo), W. Swierzy (renowned Polish
artist), many songwriters, writers of motion picture sound tracks, screen
writers, and persons involved in all facets of the entertainment field.
Attorney -HBO/Cinemax
Television special Fats & Friends
featuring Fats Domino, Ray Charles, Jerry Lee Lewis, Paul Schafer (David
Letterman Show) and Ron Wood (of the Rolling Stones).
Lecturer/Speaker
- Tulane School of
Law; Southern University; Loyola Law School; Governor's Conference on Music;
Mayor's Conference on Music, Dallas, Texas; Songwriter's Association, Dallas,
Texas.
- * On "Entertainment
Law" for Louisiana State Bar Association. 1990
- * On "Entertainment
Law" for Expo Interfest. 1991
- * On "Entertainment
Law" for Black Radio Exclusive.
- * Taught graduate
level course at University of New Orleans: "Music Business Overview" for
student credit.
Executive Producer
- * Record and Music Video "Don't Mess With My Toot
Toot" by Fats Domino and Doug Kershaw; cameo appearances by Governor Edwin
Edwards and actor-singer David Carradine.
Associate Producer
- * HBO/Cinemax television special "Sass and Brass"
featuring Sarah Vaughn, Dizzie Gillespie, Chuck Mangione, Herbie Hancock and Al
Hirt.
- * Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Telethon - New
Orleans, LA.
Entertainment Consultant
- * American Film
- Market Association, American Film Festival
welcoming event - LosAngeles,CA- Feb. 1987
- * Radio Station KEZM
Entertainment Marketing
- * Woody Hennan televeision shows featuring Ray
Charles, Natalie Cole, Al Hilt, Lola Falana, Rita Coolige, Paul Williams, Pete
Barbuti, Waylon Flowers and Madam, Jack Jones, The Heritage Hall Jazz Band and
Woody and his Thundering Herd.
- * Jacksonville Jazz Festival art poster.
Radio Moderator/Event MC/Attorney
- * Produced and moderated several New Orleans
interview format radio shows.
- * MC'd programs for many civic and charitable
organizations.
- * Mardi Gras in the Superdome (Bacchus ).
- * Urban Cowboy Annual events in City Park (
outdoor event).
- * Panelist on Entertainment Law for Mayor's
Conferance on Music.
- * Panelist on Entertainment Law for BRE
Convention.
- * Produced and moderated several New Orleans
interview format radio shows.
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Marcia
Groff
E-Mail:Entertainmg@gmail.com
Entertainment Publicist
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Marcia Groff has worked in many areas of the
entertainment industry. Prior affiliations include EMI America Records, as
National Coordinator of Artist Development, working with recording industry
luminaries such as Kenny Rogers, Kim Carnes, David Bowie and Sir Cliff Richard,
as well as various entertainment public relation firms working on accounts that
included Julie Andrews, Eartha Kitt and Barbara Eden, to name a few. While at
CCR Video Corporation/Facets Entertainment she worked on Discovery Channel's
award-winning television series "Hollywood Chronicles" and A&E's Cable Ace
nominated series "The Edge and Beyond," narrated by James Coburn. PBS
productions include the "Feather Awards," a ballroom dancing awards show and
"Dave Koz: Off the Beaten Path, Live from Trinidad and Tobago." Recent
production credits include the reality based pilot "Rock and Roll Chop Shop"
and the documentaries "Emphasis on Art" and "The Real Reel West." Currently
Entertainment Enterprises is the media consultant for Hit City Records and the
Baton Rouge based band Henry Turner, Jr. & Flavor, as well as Prestbury
Books and its newly released Cuban Trader, a memoir by Roger
Asquith.
Marcia
founded Entertainment Enterprises is a boutique public relations and production
company. Established in 1992, the firm specializes in developing publicity
campaigns for film, television and stage productions, musical artists,
celebrities and personalities. It also produces special events and is
intrinsically involved with television and music production. Entertainment
Enterprises has represented numerous special events and film premieres, some of
them include Penton Media's ME Festival; SPIFF (3rd & 4th Annual Short
Pictures International Film Festival); Elizabeth Mcdonald's 2002 Tribeca Film
Festival entry "As We Sleep"; New York Independent International Film
Festival's 'Best Fantasy Film Winner' "Trance," starring Tane McClure and
Martin Kove; "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Rock 'N' Roll Musical," a multiple
award-winner at national and international festivals; Larry Hankin's 10 Funny
Fables Film Festival; the first, second and third Backlot Film Festivals
honoring Daniel Selznick, Budd Schulberg and Carl Reiner, and the Palm Springs
International Film Festival's audience favorite "Burial Society," as well as
the debut of the horror film "Neowolf."
Additional award winning film debuts include "Desperately Seeking
Paul McCartney" at the 2008 Mockfest Film Festival, among others. Recent
special events include the 49th, 50th and 51st Annual Lions' Club Watermelon
Festivals and 6th Annual Sri Lanka Day Expo. World premiere stage productions
include "MERMAIDS-the musical comedy," "Shadow Hour," Kathleen Freeman's "Are
You Somebody?," "Houdini," "Fences" and "Wild Mushrooms." Additional stage
production public relations credits include "The Sicilian Bachelor," "The
Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged," "Floating Rhoda and the Glue
Man," "Savage In Limbo," "Closer" and "A Few Good Men." As corporate publicist
for The Stella Adler Theatre, Hollywood (1997-2003), on-going events were
Hollywood Speaks At The Adler, The Adler Honors... and the 2002 Stella Adler
Awards honoring James Coburn, Melanie Griffith and Antonio Banderas.
Additionally, Ms. Groff has produced
"Keep On Singing," a musical based on the life of jazz legend Myra Taylor.
Recent stage debuts are the West Coast Premiere of musical comedian Stephen
Sorrentino's "Voices in My Head," at the El Portal in North Hollywood and
comedienne Grace Fraga's "Sleeping Booty: A Modern Fairy Tale." Janice-Marie (A
Taste of Honey), Rosie Flores, Charley Harrison, Flogging Molly and Bill Spoke
and are just a few of the award-winning musical artists represented over the
years by Entertainment Enterprises, as well as Robbie Robertson's PBS Special
"Making A Noise:A Native American Journey."
To contact Marcia Groff, please email
marcia@entertainmententerprises.biz or call 310-721-1592 |
Ted
Baldwin
E-Mail:Ted@TedBaldwin.com
Film Director/Producer - Features, Documentaries, Music
Videos, Internet Media and Broadcast TV.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Originator and owner of Cinema Rektor,
an independent film company, and 3rd Coast Digital Films, Inc., a psecial
effects and proiduciton company.
- Chief Executive
Officer
- Chief Creative
Officer
- Director, Writer,
actor and editor, KIng Of The Strippers. (KingoftheStrippers.com)
- Webmaster 3CDF.com
and all 3rd Coast clients
- Lecturer on
screenwriting and Hero's Journey in film festival workshops
- Co-producer/
announcer weekly TV show "Henry Turner Jr's 3rd Coast Music Show"
- Served on Boards of
Ozone Film Festival, Covington Louisiana, Q Film Fest Baton Rouge
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