Paige Williams

Entertainment Attorney

Topic: Film Legal - How to Protect Your Film

Paige is an entertainment attorney and business-affairs executive specializing in film sales, distribution, and financing. She currently oversees business affairs and production legal for various sales agents, producers, and other industry clients, and has held senior roles at Voltage Pictures and The Exchange, bringing deep expertise in deal structuring and negotiations with studios and streamers.

Daniel R’Bibo

Senior VP at Arthur J. Gallagher Co.

Topic: Production Insurance - What it covers and why you need it

With over 18 years of entertainment insurance experience, Daniel specialize in independent film and television productions, as well as related industry businesses, including post-production and VFX companies, equipment rental companies, and prop rental companies. They handle a wide range of entertainment insurance needs, including E&O, D&O, Employment Practices Liability, Production Package coverage, General and Auto Liability, Workers’ Compensation, and more.

René Besson

Executive Producer

Topic: Working with Unions & Guilds

René Besson is a producer whose credits include The Mechanic with Jason Statham, Stone with Robert De Niro and Edward Norton, The Taking of Deborah Logan, and The Tale starring Laura Dern. He has also overseen production on major films including The Expendables, Righteous Kill, and The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans. Known for maintaining studio-quality production value within independent budgets, René is a member of both the Producers Guild of America and the Directors Guild of America.

Susan Haley

Production Accountant

Topic: Understanding Accounting for Film

Susan Haley worked at the Oregon Film Office for 10 years including administrator of the Oregon Film Incentive program, responsible for auditing productions and selling tax credits to fund the program. She also focused on outreach to the independent film community. In 2010, Susan began working freelance processing payroll for film and commercial projects, eventually going on the road primarily as a location accountant throughout the US. 

Over the course of her career, Susan has worked on a wide range of independent film and television productions, including serving as a Production Accountant on The Peanut Butter Falcon, starring Shia LaBeouf and Dakota Johnson. Her credits also include projects such as We the Animals, Night Moves, Crown Vic, A Little Prayer, and others.

Alex Garcia

Commercial & Business Affairs Manager at FINTAGE CAM

Topic: Understanding CAM Accounts

Alex Garcia is the connective tissue between producers, financiers, sales agents, distributors, and legal teams — structuring and administering how revenue gets collected and recouped on film and TV productions. He brings more than 20 years in entertainment and media to the role, having cut his teeth at places like Sony Pictures Entertainment, Universal Music Group, and Entravision. Over that time he's built real depth across film financing, international sales and distribution, streaming, rights management, deal structuring, and investor relations — the kind of range that comes from having sat on more than one side of the table.

Viviana Zarragoitia

Executive VP at TPC

Topic: Film Finance

Viviana Zarragoitia is Executive Vice President at TPC, a boutique film and television lending firm. After beginning her career in production accounting and spending five years at Lionsgate, she joined TPC in 2013 and has since helped finance more than 200 independent films, earning over 80 executive producer credits. She specializes in sourcing, structuring, and negotiating film financing and is also an active industry mentor and panelist.