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Diana Madison started her career as an intern for E! News and Entertainment Tonight. When she could not get any on camera opportunities, she launched the YouTube channel Hollyscoop, which became one of the biggest entertainment news channels in the world. After some time, one channel became four and Diana was able to sell her digital media studio to American media company Radio One/TV One.
After the sale, she decided to pursue her lifelong passion of acting. She has filmed several movies, including Mob Town, starring David Arquette and Jamie-Lynn Sigler, and I Love Us, starring Katie Cassidy.
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In 2020, after executive producing the show Glam Masters for Lifetime alongside Kim Kardashian, Diana was inspired to launch her beauty brand, Diana Madison Beauty. Her “clean beauty” line is now sold at Neiman Marcus, Revolve, Anthropologie, and Naimie’s. She currently is in pre-production on the film First Gen (Working Title), and has teamed up with Village Roadshow to executive produce a crime documentary.
Chadwick Pelletier is an award-winning American-Canadian screenwriter, filmmaker, and entrepreneur. As a WGA screenwriter, Chadwick has written, optioned, and sold film and TV content at the highest level in the industry. His work as a director and producer has earned him numerous awards, including the coveted Golden Eagle statue at San Diego International Film Festival (For Blood) and two Red Poppy Awards (She Will Be Loved).
In 2017, Chadwick founded the DaVinci International Film Festival, which hosts an annual event at AMC Theatres, The Grove in Los Angeles, and is ranked among the top best reviewed festival platforms in the world. Chadwick is also the owner and CEO at Veritas Film & Television with offices in Los Angeles, California and Vancouver, British Columbia.
Director, writer, executive producer, and distributor Dr. Viviane Winthrop was born in Montreal. Her parents moved to Sedona, Arizona when she was a teenager. Although her father was a professional Shakespearean actor and her mother a piano teacher, Viviane chose a career in dentistry.
After 25 years as a dentist, she has recently retired to pursue her dream as a film director. The Last of the Winthrops is her directorial debut. The feature documentary recently was named Best Documentary at the Beyond Hollywood International Film Festival in Los Angeles, and is available now on Amazon, iTunes, and other streaming platforms. She is the founder of We Unite As One, LLC, a full-service production company based in Los Angeles that develops and produces narrative and documentary films.
Rehna Azim is a London-based practicing lawyer and freelance journalist who writes mainly about film and lifestyle topics. She was previously the editor of a glossy women’s magazine and is currently awards editor at Movie Marker . Her site www. itsalawyerslife.com is a lifestyle and wellbeing blog for lawyers by lawyers. She has written and produced four short legal dramas.