He served as Co-Chair of Baker Botts’ Entertainment, Media and Sports Practice Group, as VP of Legal and Business Affairs for NBA Properties and as COO of the MPAA’s global Content Protection Group.

Along with Producer Salma Hayek, he was Executive Producer of an animated feature film based on Kahlil Gibran’s iconic work The Prophet. The film was written and directed by Roger Allers (The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin). Among its ten award nominations were three 2015 Annie-Nominations and inclusion in the Oscars Animated Feature Film Nomination short-list. He is also the Producer of numerous other feature film and television productions including a new animated feature film with the Daytona and International Speedway Corporation’s tracks and competitions as the settings. His work involves both traditional media and multiple content delivery platforms, technologies and genres. Having worked with both major studios and independents for several decades, including Jeff Skoll’s Participant Media, he and his colleagues develop and produce innovative new content for global audiences to experience.

 Prior to establishing FilmFinders, she helped start the profitable video rental division of Republic Pictures as Vice President of Acquisitions and Development after having spent three years acquiring such feature films for Lorimar as My Beautiful Laundrette, Letter to Brezhnev, Tampopo, and Sugar Baby as part of a wide variety of international artistic and commercial genres.

Levine has worked in international distribution for Twentieth Century Fox in Amsterdam, in Ross Perot’s start up video company Inovision, in marketing for ABC Video Enterprises, at Public Media Inc. the social issue documentary division of Films Inc. and Pyramid Films, the award winning short film distribution company in Santa Monica California. During her tenure at all these companies she acquired features and documentaries for international and domestic distribution.

Her online course on the international independent film business has been used by UCLA Extension Film School Certificate Program and is currently in use at Woodbury University.

She speaks French, German, Spanish and English and travels extensively on the international film market circuit as a hired panel moderator, educator, consultant for filmmakers, the Cannes Film Market, the Berlinale’s European Film Market and Talent Campus, Deutsche Welle Akademie and others. Levine’s educational background includes a Master’s Degree in Education from the University of Southern California, a License from the Sorbonne University of Paris and a BFA from the University of California.

He graduated from Cornell University and Hastings Law School, and has practiced entertainment, communications, and multimedia law since 1978. He has served as Senior Vice President of Business Affairs and General Counsel for Cinema Group; General Counsel and  Head of Business Affairs for KCET Television; Senior Counsel for United Artists; Director of Business Affairs at MGM Television; Counsel for American International Pictures; Counsel for Filmways Pictures; and Counsel for Orion Pictures. Mr. Tulchin is the co-author of a book considered one of the bibles of the motion picture industry, entitled: The Independent Film Producer’s Survival Guide: A Legal and Business Sourcebook, published by Schirmer Press, New York (2002, 2005, 2010).

He has lectured extensively at forums such as UCLA, USC, AFI, IFP, ShowBiz Expo, IFTA, The Sundance Producer’s Conference, Singapore Film & Television Conference, Cannes, Asia (Bangkok, Thailand and Beijing, China), Galway (Ireland), Los Angeles / AFI and Santa Barbara Film Festivals, Digital Hollywood, The Learning Annex, The International Film School in Cuba, Variety’s New York Film Finance Forum, and numerous others.

As Entertainment Media Consulting’s president / owner, Harris E. Tulchin has produced or executive produced over a dozen films. As a producer’s representative, Mr. Tulchin has sold and licensed hundreds of films on behalf of his production company clients.  Mr. Tulchin was also an IFTA arbitrator and has served as an expert witness in numerous cases involving the motion picture and television business.

As a private practitioner, his clients have included, among others: Sony Pictures, MGM/United Artists, Hallmark Entertainment, Lionsgate Pictures, MCA/Universal, Cineville/HBO, and Showtime. His clients also include numerous independent producers, writers, directors, actors, digital developers, animators, and musicians.

…including major motion picture studios, independent production companies, producers and creators of animated, new media and multi-platform content and special effects, individual and institutional film, television and stage producers, book and screenwriters, film, television, stage and commercial directors and performers, and documentary filmmakers.

Janis speaks at professional conferences addressing issues such as motion picture financing and production, negotiation of entertainment agreements, and legal ethics issues for entertainment lawyers. In 2012 she was a guest lecturer at Chapman University on the legal aspects of film production.

Janis is currently on the board of Dance Camera West, a member of Center Dance Arts, and serves as Board Chair of Jewish Women’s Theater. She has also served on the boards of the Los Angeles Ballet, Women in Film and Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles. Janis is based at the CDAS office in Beverly Hills.

Previously, he served as Senior V.P. of Latin American Operations of the Motion Pictures Association of America- MPAA, the US film industry trade association that represents the major US studios. He is also founder and executive director of the Brazilian Film Commission Network -REBRAFIC. Mr. Solot holds MA degrees in Economics, and in Latin American Studies.