ISA Pitch Panel Featuring Executives from Atomic Robot, Morning View Ent & Snarky Elephant Prods
Release Date: 02/08/2025
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Caroline Dillingham is the Chief Executive Officer of Morning View Entertainment LLC, where she leads the company in its mission to discover and develop compelling stories from across the United States, with a focus on creating content for the North American audience. Under her leadership, Morning View Entertainment is dedicated to producing impactful, culturally relevant stories that resonate with diverse viewers.
A writer at heart, Caroline has written and co-written three feature films, bringing her creative vision to life both in front of and behind the camera. Prior to founding Morning View Entertainment, she served as President of Power On Digital for eight years, where she led the development of digital strategies and content initiatives. She also held the position of Lead Content Developer at Lions Road Productions for four years, working on a variety of innovative media projects. Caroline is a proud graduate of the University of Boulder at Colorado and has been a regular speaker at UCLA, sharing her expertise on marketing, business operations, and entrepreneurship.
Neal Ludevig is a producer, director, and entrepreneur credited across fiction and nonfiction. He is most known for producing the 50th Year Anniversary of Black Woodstock (connected to the “Summer of Soul” documentary), the Winter Jazz Fest concert w/Maurice Brown and Anderson, Paak (on Quincy Jones’ Network), the acclaimed mini-series “Insomnia”, among others. He was awarded the Rainin Grant by SFFilm, was a finalist for the 2022 Sundance Producers Fellowship, won the 2023 LES Film Festival's "Stay Indie" Project, and was a top 10 Finalist for the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival Untold Stories Competition.
He leads Snarky Elephant Productions as its Chief Creative Officer, hosts the podcast "Leave Looking Up", founded the media agency Moon31, and is the Executive Producer for the Revive Big Band’s 1st album, a 20+ piece big band with a combined 27 Grammy wins and nominations by its group members, led by the current MD for Ms. Lauryn Hill.
Neal is a Grammy member, was named an Emerging Leader by the Association of Performing Arts Presenters, awarded a Congressional Proclamation for his work via Harlem Arts Festival, was a 2024 Protect. Blue Wavemaker, and helped launch the national CPG company Enlightened. He is most passionate about projects connected with climate, music, and mental health.
Sarah Paek is the Coordinator for Film at Atomic Monster. Before joining Atomic Monster in 2022, Paek worked for three years at Daniel Dae Kim’s production company 3AD, rising from Development Assistant to Coordinator. Previously, she worked in Post Production at Warner Bros. TV, where she first served as a PA on iZombie, and then became a Post Coordinator. Paek started her career in the aerospace industry, working as a Systems Engineer at Northrop Grumman. She holds a B.S. in Engineering from Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California.
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Felicity Wren is the VP of Development at the ISA and Co-VP of Development for Creative Screenwriter Productions.
An award-winning actor, originally from London, she studied all areas of Performance for her Honors and then Master’s Degrees. She then formed her own Production Company, Unrestricted View, which runs a theatre in London and curates three film festivals annually.
Since moving to Los Angeles over a decade ago, Felicity has continued acting and producing, winning five performance awards and producing sixteen film projects to date. She splits her time between Creative Screenwriter Productions and the management of the ISA Development Team, working directly with the Development Slate Writers, ISA Top 25 Screenwriters to Watch, and the ISA community. The Development Team has fostered enduring relationships with many of the industry’s finest, ensuring their writers projects get in front of eminent producers, managers and agents in Hollywood. Through Felicity and her team’s efforts, they have successfully paired several writer/director partnerships with productions underway, introduced writers to their managers, and have been instrumental in facilitating screenplay options with their contacts at C2 Motion Pictures, Fear Not Productions, Ethea Entertainment, Endless Media and Adam Krentzman Films. Felicity has been pitching CSP’s slate of projects to Hulu, Doozer Productions, DreamWorks, Groundswell and Fuzzy Door, to name a few. Felicity regularly appears on panels for the ISA and others, most recently for Vancouver Women in Film.