In his present role, Mr. Katz leads the international programming and production activities for A&E Television Networks, including working with worldwide partners to provide creative direction for both existing and new channels. In addition, he oversees the company's international program sales effo...
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In his present role, Mr. Katz leads the international programming and production activities for A&E Television Networks, including working with worldwide partners to provide creative direction for both existing and new channels. In addition, he oversees the company's international program sales efforts. Previously, Mr. Katz was Vice President, Daytime and Specials Programming, A&E Network, where he oversaw late night and daytime programming, and was responsible for the acquisition, development and scheduling of the network's special event programming with a concentration on world premiere documentary mini-series. Before joining A&E in 1989, A&E, Mr. Katz was Executive Producer of WABC-TV. He was responsible for The Morning Show's entry into national syndication as Live With Regis And Kathie Lee and received an Emmy for the local show in 1983 and an Emmy nomination for the national show in 1989

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Bill has been at Lion Television for ten years. During that time he’s made shows on everything from the birth of Athenian Democracy to the Eurovision Song Contest. Now, as head of History and Special Projects, Bill focuses on historic subjects and also observational series for broadcasters all ove...
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Bill has been at Lion Television for ten years. During that time he’s made shows on everything from the birth of Athenian Democracy to the Eurovision Song Contest. Now, as head of History and Special Projects, Bill focuses on historic subjects and also observational series for broadcasters all over the world – covering diverse subjects from Chinese Emperors to African schoolchildren and Greek heroes.

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Caroline Behar heads the Department of Acquisitions and International Co-productions at state television channel France 5, a key player in documentary production within France. She has been a Commissioning Editor in the Department since 1997, developing numerous international co-production projects....
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Caroline Behar heads the Department of Acquisitions and International Co-productions at state television channel France 5, a key player in documentary production within France. She has been a Commissioning Editor in the Department since 1997, developing numerous international co-production projects. This work takes her to programme markets and festivals worldwide in search of the best documentary films and proposals dealing with her preferred subjects: people, places and cultures from across the world, wildlife and the environment, science and technology. For many years Caroline has been building long-term relationships with producers and broadcasters overseas, and is now actively seeking to collaborate with producers in emerging markets. She is also currently developing cross-platform projects which exploit the potential of new technologies. Previously, Caroline was involved in setting up the International Association of Educational and Discovery Channels (AITED), and in developing interactive events held throughout France, in complement to the channel’s programming.Caroline is a regular speaker at international documentary forums and has taken part in numerous juries, both in France and abroad

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Ms. Bagliana is is responsible for acquisition, pre-acquisition and co-production activity, from selection and negotiation till contract reviewing at RTI SpA - Mediaset Group, the largest commercial network in Italy with more than the 43% of the general share in the free television market. Working a...
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Ms. Bagliana is is responsible for acquisition, pre-acquisition and co-production activity, from selection and negotiation till contract reviewing at RTI SpA - Mediaset Group, the largest commercial network in Italy with more than the 43% of the general share in the free television market. Working and thinking strategically about the commercial and editorial objectives of all programming agreements and implementing them into the operations of the department, she develops relationships with suppliers, other broadcasters and independent producers, monitors the international market and collects the needs of different slots and channels. Since 2000 Daniela has contributed to the schedule development of the satellite channel MTChannel. She has a degree in International Law and a MBA in Marketing and she's currently a member of the Board of Directors of both History and Factual World Congresses

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After working in several media and communications related companies at managerial levels including RAI-RadioTelevisione Italiana, the Sugar Music Group, Cable&Wireless Plc, Telecom Italia, Polygram, Stream-Sky Italy Digital Television, Daniele is presently consulting for the director general of RAI ...
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After working in several media and communications related companies at managerial levels including RAI-RadioTelevisione Italiana, the Sugar Music Group, Cable&Wireless Plc, Telecom Italia, Polygram, Stream-Sky Italy Digital Television, Daniele is presently consulting for the director general of RAI Educational Department Mr. Giovanni Minoli, a position which includes working on various strategy matters including the daily program series History Are Us. As a journalist, Mr. Doglio contributes to several italian newspapers and magazines, and was correspondent from Italy for the program-trade magazine TV World. A member of the International Institute of Communications, London, since 1977, the Foreign Press Association, and the Italian Journalist Association, Daniele has just published in Italy the book Copyright & Media, A guide to the market of rights.

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Ms. Klinck has worked as producer, researcher and clearance specialist on numerous award-winning Canadian, American and British documentary films that have garnered Emmy, Gemini, Peabody and Academy awards. A graduate of Queen's University, Elizabeth has taught documentary research and development a...
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Ms. Klinck has worked as producer, researcher and clearance specialist on numerous award-winning Canadian, American and British documentary films that have garnered Emmy, Gemini, Peabody and Academy awards. A graduate of Queen's University, Elizabeth has taught documentary research and development at Ryerson University in Toronto and has led workshops at numerous international conferences and broadcasters. Elizabeth serves as a member of the board of History Makers, FOCAL International, the Audio Visual Trust of Canada, and the Yorkton Short Film and Video Festival. She is the founding chairperson of the Visual Researchers' Society of Canada and is a member of DOC and WIFT Toronto. Elizabeth has personally been nominated for the FOCAL International Researcher of the Year Award, a Canadian Gemini award, an Emmy award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft – Research and last year was presented with the FOCAL International Lifetime Achievement Award

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360 Production specializes in history and science for TV and across emerging platforms. John was Editor of the BBC's multi-award winning flagship history programme - Timewatch, for 6 years. He commissioned and executive produced 70 episodes of the strand, with average audiences of over two million. ...
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360 Production specializes in history and science for TV and across emerging platforms. John was Editor of the BBC's multi-award winning flagship history programme - Timewatch, for 6 years. He commissioned and executive produced 70 episodes of the strand, with average audiences of over two million. John also pioneered the brand's launch into online space with hits like Bloody Omaha and Stonehenge Live. Previously John was also an exec for Granada and Scottish/GingerTV.

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Mr. Starowicz began his career in newspaper journalism and joined the current affairs division of CBC Radio in 1970. Acclaimed for his reworking of As It Happens, he also created Sunday Morning, a three-hour weekend review. In 1979 he shifted to CBC Television, where he was the architect and Executi...
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Mr. Starowicz began his career in newspaper journalism and joined the current affairs division of CBC Radio in 1970. Acclaimed for his reworking of As It Happens, he also created Sunday Morning, a three-hour weekend review. In 1979 he shifted to CBC Television, where he was the architect and Executive Producer of the hugely successful current affairs program The Journal (1982-92). Mr. Starowicz's passion for Canadian history and culture culminated in his monumental 32 hour documentary series, Canada: A People's History. Airing over two years (2000-01) in both English and French, the series attracted over 14 million viewers. Awards and honours include Governor General's Award for Lifetime Artistic Achievement (2006); Officer of the Order of Canada (2004); Canadian Club Canadian of the Year (2000); Canadian Journalism Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award (2000); eight Gemini Awards, and honorary degrees from six Canadian universities. He is much in demand internationally as a writer and lecturer on the history and future of broadcast communications.

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Mette is the Commissioning Editor of documentaries & factual programming is responsible for appx 700 hours of programming per year. In this job she has won many awards, among others Grierson, Peabody; Sundance; Oscar etc. She is a board member of Steps International initiating ?Why Democracy?? and i...
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Mette is the Commissioning Editor of documentaries & factual programming is responsible for appx 700 hours of programming per year. In this job she has won many awards, among others Grierson, Peabody; Sundance; Oscar etc. She is a board member of Steps International initiating ?Why Democracy?? and is an advisory member of festivals around the world. Mette joined TV 2 in 1991 as a Chief Executive for Sales & Co-production. In her time the sales department became the largest distributor in Scandinavia with world wide sales.

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Mr. Kot is responsible for all original factual programming outside of the lifestyle genre for Canwest Broadcasting. Channels include terrestrials, Global and E!, and specialty channels, History Television, Mystery, National Geographic Canada, and IFC. Michael joined History Television just before i...
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Mr. Kot is responsible for all original factual programming outside of the lifestyle genre for Canwest Broadcasting. Channels include terrestrials, Global and E!, and specialty channels, History Television, Mystery, National Geographic Canada, and IFC. Michael joined History Television just before it launched in 1997. As Director of Original Content he was responsible all original programming. He has also served as an executive for National Geographic Canada, BBC Canada and BBC Kids. Michael was on launch team of CBC Newsworld eventually producing a range of network specials and series. He left to peruse online digital projects as well as to make feature documentaries.

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Following his studies at universities in Germany, Iceland, Denmark and Finland, Mr. Grunert began to work for German public broadcaster ZDF based in Mainz. Beginning as a freelancer in the entertainment department, he soon became a full-time Commissioning Editor in the Classical Music and Theatre de...
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Following his studies at universities in Germany, Iceland, Denmark and Finland, Mr. Grunert began to work for German public broadcaster ZDF based in Mainz. Beginning as a freelancer in the entertainment department, he soon became a full-time Commissioning Editor in the Classical Music and Theatre deptartments. In 1990, he became Deputy Head of Zentralredaktion Kultur, the programming unit of ZDF's culture and science department. When the German-French Culture Channel ARTE was created, he became Senior Commissioning Editor of all the documentaries ZDF produces for ARTE. In 1998, he headed the department exclusively dedicated to theme nights, THEMA. He has since been involved in an increasing number of international co-productions, mainly of European origin. Recently, some Spanish and Italian projects have been realized with the support of his department. In January 2005 he moved to ARTE Headquarters Strasbourg where he continued to work as head of Unité THEMA.

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In January 1996, Mr. Bardehle founded Vidicom in Hamburg. Four staff members produce at average 10 hours per year, mainly science and history shows. After graduating from Henri-Nannen-School of Journalism, Peter Bardehle worked for SÜDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG and public broadcasters in Germany. He was assig...
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In January 1996, Mr. Bardehle founded Vidicom in Hamburg. Four staff members produce at average 10 hours per year, mainly science and history shows. After graduating from Henri-Nannen-School of Journalism, Peter Bardehle worked for SÜDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG and public broadcasters in Germany. He was assigned as news reporter, editor and anchorman. From 1993 - 1995 he headed the documentary department of the commercial broadcaster SAT.1. During his career he was awarded the Strasbourg Prize, the John J. McCloy Fellowship of the American Council in Germany, the RIAS Television Award and the first Ludwig Bölkow Award by the EADS Airbus Consortium. Vidicom's website won Excite's Cool Site Award.

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Ralf has had a distinguished 25-year career at ZDF's Department of Contemporary History. He has co-developed, written, produced, launched or supervised the production of many highly acclaimed multiple-part, award-winning documentary series over the past few years including The Unification of Germany...
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Ralf has had a distinguished 25-year career at ZDF's Department of Contemporary History. He has co-developed, written, produced, launched or supervised the production of many highly acclaimed multiple-part, award-winning documentary series over the past few years including The Unification of Germany, Scandals, Our Century, Hitler - A Profile, Hitler's Henchmen, Holokaust, The Century War, 100 Years, Stalin, German POW's, Dictators, Power Couples, Monarchies, Conspiracy Files. Ralf contributes articles for historical publications and books. He helped launch the World Congress of History Producers and currently serves on the Board of Directors of "History Makers 2008: International Summit of History and Current Affairs Producers". More information on ZDF can be found on the company's website www.zdf.de

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Mr. Corsini joined RAI in 1986: two years later, he became a producer for Mixer in 1988, producing, directing and appearing on camera in dozens of segments (5' to 1h), on such different topics as Italian terrorism, US politics, domestic and international affairs, among many others. In 1994, he was t...
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Mr. Corsini joined RAI in 1986: two years later, he became a producer for Mixer in 1988, producing, directing and appearing on camera in dozens of segments (5' to 1h), on such different topics as Italian terrorism, US politics, domestic and international affairs, among many others. In 1994, he was the co-creator of the award-winning talk show Mixer Giovani, and later became the production supervisor (editorial and contractual) of the first 1,500 episodes of Un posto al sole. Under Mr Minoli's direction, he was also responsible for international co-productions and acquisitions of documentaries for Format and Raitre (with partners like Discovery, Turner Original Productions, Teleimages, Set Productions). In 2002, again with Mr Minoli, he moved to Rai Educational, where he is currently the executive in charge of La Storia siamo noi, also with editorial responsibilities.

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Mr. Melman entered the industry as a Runner, and quickly moved into the camera department, became a Director, Producer, Head of Production and finally a Broadcaster.Time spent behind the camera both as cameraman and as Director/Producer has given Mr. Melman a broad expertise in all areas of televisi...
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Mr. Melman entered the industry as a Runner, and quickly moved into the camera department, became a Director, Producer, Head of Production and finally a Broadcaster.Time spent behind the camera both as cameraman and as Director/Producer has given Mr. Melman a broad expertise in all areas of television, from commercials to music videos and from drama to documentaries including the multi-award winning 24-part Cold War series for Ted Turner. Since moving into Broadcasting, Mr. Melman has been instrumental in launching ten cable and satellite television channels in Latin America, Africa, Greece, the Middle East, Northern Europe and the United Kingdom. All of which are currently on-air. As a Broadcaster, Mr. Melman has worked for the BBC, Discovery and Artsworld and is now the Channel Director for The History Channel (UK) and The Biography Channel (UK), The Crime & Investigation Network, The History Channel High Definition and The History Channel Africa, Greece and Northern Europe.

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Mr. Hunter is responsible for executive producing some 100 hours of original programming per year – programming that goes across 164 countries worldwide. These hours run across the whole vista of National Geographic's core areas including natural history, adventure, science and world cultures. Steph...
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Mr. Hunter is responsible for executive producing some 100 hours of original programming per year – programming that goes across 164 countries worldwide. These hours run across the whole vista of National Geographic's core areas including natural history, adventure, science and world cultures. Stephen has played an instrumental role executive producing series such as Air Crash Investigation and I Didn't Know That and the Python Attack episode of Dangerous Encounters with Brady Barr. In edition to these editorial duties, Hunter also takes the lead in developing key series and specials for the channels. Prior to joining NGCI, Hunter was Vice President of Production for Cineflix in Toronto, Canada. There he helped develop a number of hit series including Trapped, Mayday: Crash Scene Investigations, Final 24, True CSI, and developed and co-executive produced the award-winning, two-hour doc drama, Jonestown: Paradise Lost. Before that he was Vice President and Head of Development for CineNova Productions. He was also producer, director/writer on two Emmy-nominated documentaries: In the Wrong Body and Growing Up Old.

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Mr. Segaller heads up the creation of all national and local programming from the company's producing subsidiaries – Thirteen, WLIW21 and Creative News Group. Among these acclaimed productions are: Nature, Great Performances, American Masters, Secrets of the Dead, Wide Angle, Worldfocus, Exposé , Re...
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Mr. Segaller heads up the creation of all national and local programming from the company's producing subsidiaries – Thirteen, WLIW21 and Creative News Group. Among these acclaimed productions are: Nature, Great Performances, American Masters, Secrets of the Dead, Wide Angle, Worldfocus, Exposé , Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly, Cyberchase, SundayArts, Reel 13 and many documentary films and series. For nine years to January 2008 he was WNET's Director of News and Public Affairs Programming. He has been a journalist, producer, director, writer and author whose work has been broadcast and published on both sides of the Atlantic and all over the world.

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Koch is Vice President of PBS Distribution (PBSd), the world-wide broadcast co-production, acquisition and distribution and new media business development company jointly owned by PBS and WGBH-Boston. PBS Distribution seeks out and manages co-production partnerships with producers and broadcasters a...
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Koch is Vice President of PBS Distribution (PBSd), the world-wide broadcast co-production, acquisition and distribution and new media business development company jointly owned by PBS and WGBH-Boston. PBS Distribution seeks out and manages co-production partnerships with producers and broadcasters and directs the sale of PBS, WGBH programs and programs of independent producers to media companies globally. Koch’s primary role is to oversee all international activities of PBSd.PBSd represents such acclaimed television series such as Wide Angle, Frontline, NOVA, American Experience, This Old House, New Yankee Workshop, as well as select award winning independent producers such as Ken Burns, Alex Gibney, Eugene Jurecki, David Grubin, Jon Else, David Sutherland, among others. Koch, a 20 year veteran of public broadcasting and WGBH-Boston launched, along with the Banff Television Festival, History Makers in October, 2001, where he served as chairman for six years. Koch is also a Board member of the International Emmy Committee, a founding partner of the European Television and Media Academy, a member of the Discovery Campus advisory board . Previously at WGBH Koch was Director of WGBH International and earlier, Director of Licensing for WGBH where he oversaw the launch of This Old House Magazine, among other things. He has also worked in WGBH's budget and strategy departments.

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William Spencer Reilly is the Executive Vice President, Creative Strategies, Production & Partnerships at Odyssey Networks. Reilly joined the company (formerly Faith & Values Media) in 1999 as Executive Producer and was later promoted to Vice President of Production and Programming. In those positi...
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William Spencer Reilly is the Executive Vice President, Creative Strategies, Production & Partnerships at Odyssey Networks. Reilly joined the company (formerly Faith & Values Media) in 1999 as Executive Producer and was later promoted to Vice President of Production and Programming. In those positions, Mr. Reilly oversaw all of the organization’s regular weekly productions and programming on Hallmark Channel as well as its primetime holiday specials and movies.
Bill Reilly’s contributions as Executive Producer resulted in two of the highest rated movies in Hallmark Channel’s history: “Love Comes Softly” and “Love’s Enduring Promise,” each of which have sold over a million DVDs, as well as Hallmark Channel’s highest rated non-fiction special, “Reluctant Saint: Francis of Assisi.” He has won over 30 national awards including seven CINE Golden Eagles (“C.S. Lewis: Beyond Narnia,” “Joan of Arc,” “The Four Chaplains” and “Reluctant Saint”), and others for various series, specials and made-for-television movies including the BBC’s highest rated drama single of the year in 2008, “Florence Nightingale.”
Reilly temporarily left Odyssey Networks in 2007 when he was promoted to President & CEO of the newly created Lightworks Pictures, a new motion picture subsidiary of Odyssey. Under Reilly’s direction, its first film, “The Note,” was Hallmark Channel’s highest rated movie of the year in 2007. The sequel, “Taking a Chance on Love,” premiered on the Hallmark Channel in January, 2009, earning the honor of cable’s highest rated primetime telecast of the day. Reilly rejoined Odyssey Networks in July 2009 at the request of its new CEO, Nick Stuart.
For over 25 years, Reilly has worked for various television and theatrical production companies serving as President & CEO of Sea Lion Productions, Executive Director of Fordham University’s Sesquicentennial Celebration, Executive Director of the Tribeca Center for the Performing Arts, and Director of the American Theatre Wing, founders of The Antoinette Perry “TONY” Awards. Before he began his career in television, Reilly worked on Broadway as an actor and producer of shows and special event fundraisers, among them several productions of, “WAITIN’ IN THE WINGS: The Night the Understudies Take Center Stage®, “Bob Hope and The Best of Broadway Salute Fordham Prep,” and the Broadway workshop production of Leon Uris’ bestseller, “TRINITY.”
Mr. Reilly received his BA in theatre from Fordham University and served his apprenticeship as an actor with the Yale Repertory Company. He lives in Somers, New York with his wife Diane and has two daughters, Maeve and Erin.


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Alberta Nokes has commissioned and executive produced more than 500 hours for Vision TV, Canada, including several international co-productions. She has been a freelance exec for History Canada on projects ranging from marine technology to biker gangs. Recent projects include developing and exec pro...
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Alberta Nokes has commissioned and executive produced more than 500 hours for Vision TV, Canada, including several international co-productions. She has been a freelance exec for History Canada on projects ranging from marine technology to biker gangs. Recent projects include developing and exec producing Secrets of Christianity ( 7 X 1 hour) with Associated Producers for History US and History Canada and developing a documentary currently in production for HBO and Global, Canada on international organ trafficking with Associated Producers’ Ric Bienstock, winner of the 2007 Emmy for Outstanding Investigative Journalism for her film Sex Slaves. Ms. Nokes is also working on new projects with Reel Time Images.

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