Diane Drake is a professional screenwriter, author, writing instructor, story consultant, and speaker. Prior to becoming a screenwriter, Diane served as Vice President of Creative Affairs for Academy Award-winning director Sydney Pollack. Her first produced original script, ONLY YOU, starring Robert Downey, Jr. and Marisa Tomei, sold for one million dollars, while her second produced script, WHAT WOMEN WANT, starring Mel Gibson and Helen Hunt, is the second highest grossing romantic comedy of all time. In addition, both films have been remade in China featuring major Chinese stars, and WWW was remade as WHAT MEN WANT, with Taraji P. Henson.

Diane is a member of the Writer’s Guild of America, teaches screenwriting for UCLA Extension, and has served as a judge for the Humanitas Prize, Writers Guild Awards, and Austin Film festival, among others. Her debut book on screenwriting, Get Your Story Straight, is available on Amazon.

David Matamoros has been a film producer for over 20 years. Born in Barcelona, Spain, he has produced everything from animation to fiction and TV series. 

His alliance with Lars Von Trier and Zentropa has led him to participate in some of the most prestigious films of recent years, such as MELANCHOLIA, THE HUNT, the Academy Award-winning IN A BETTER WORLD and THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT.

A regular at prestigious international festivals, David has recently produced the award-winning A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE GREEN PLANET and the Netflix worldwide phenomenon EL HOYO (THE PLATFORM).

David’s film credits include other titles such as EVOLUTION, TASTING MENU and VULCANIA and in 2019 he co-directed ISAAC with Ángeles Hernández, an official selection at several prestigious festivals. He’s currently filming the animated movie, HANNA AND THE MONSTERS and is in prep to direct his second feature, ASTRONAUTA and BIG BAD WOLVES, once again in collaboration with Netflix.

David is also a mentor in programmes such as Script East and Cartoon, and is a professor at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. He is the author of the best-selling book on film distribution, Film Distribution: First Steps.

Luci Lenox is a Casting Director who has worked in the film industry for the last fifteen years between Barcelona, Spain and the UK. Her specialties are international productions shooting in Spain and European co-productions, and one of her great passions is working with budding filmmakers and rising stars.

She has cast over 100 productions either as lead casting director or as Spanish or European casting director for international co-productions. Films she has cast have won over 200 awards at International Film Festivals.

Luci has worked on both critically-acclaimed and box office successes, including VICTORIA by Sebastian Schipper, VICKY CRISTINA BARCELONA directed by Woody Allen, J.A. Bayona’s A MONSTER CALLS, Mabrouk El Mechri’s THE COLD LIGHT OF DAY and PERFUME directed by Tom Tykwer, among others.

As well as numerous Spanish independent producers, her clients include Netflix, Fox, ABC, Disney, NBC, MediaPro and Paramount Pictures.

Luci has served on the board of CSA Europe for two years and headed the Diversity and Inclusion Committee in Europe.

Prior to her casting career, she worked in production and script development, where she coordinated the European Creative Media script development programme ‘Four Corners’. Her combined skills have given her an excellent understanding of both the development process and what an actor looks for in a script in order to attach him/herself to it.

Spencer Robinson was born and raised in Los Angeles, CA, and got his start in the Film Industry as a Production Assistant on glamorous productions like car commercial, cereal commercial, and other car commercial.  He then landed a job in the mailroom at MBST Entertainment, where he learned about management from some of the legends of the representation world.

After mastering the art of making phone calls and scheduling lunches as an assistant at Cornice Entertainment and Howard Entertainment, he eventually moved to Verve Entertainment where he was promoted to manager.  His focus was always split between writers and actors because having relationships with both sides only helps the clients that much more.  Six years ago, Verve merged with Art/Work Entertainment, and Spencer is still there.

Art/Work has writers and actors on several TV series, as well as feature writers making movies for major studios.  The company also represents comedians who tour nationally and internationally.  Spencer has been a manager for 10 years.  He loves to watch TV, and even sleeps sometimes.