Jane Schoettle is a Senior Programmer at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), which selected 17 Australian features in 2009. Jane is responsible for programming films from Australia, New Zealand and Israel, as well as American independent cinema. She is the founder and former Director of the Sprockets TIFF for Children, internationally recognised as one of the top five children’s festivals in the world. Jane has also worked as a script consultant and participated in several film residency programs. She has served on numerous international festival juries and is leading a panel at SXSW 2010 on 'Festival Strategies for Independent Film'. Jane is also the Co-Programmer for TIFF’s film subscription series, Reel Talk.

Michele Wolkoff is the Director of Development, Universal Pictures. Michele works closely with Focus Features in Los Angeles. Focus Features is a motion picture production, financing and worldwide distribution company committed to bringing moviegoers the most original stories from the world's most innovative filmmakers. Focus Features is part of NBC Universal, one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies in the development, production and marketing of entertainment, news and information to a global audience.

James Brown is Head of Acquisitions for UK distribution company Metrodome. An Australian based in London, James started his career in independent production and as a film critic. He worked as a freelance film journalist for a variety of print publications in Australia and for the nationally syndicated Austereo Network for five years. He has directed TV documentaries, and one of his short films, Fugue, was awarded the Panorama Jury Prize at the Berlin Film Festival in 2004. He moved to the UK in 2006 where he started working in international sales and distribution. Before joining Metrodome he was Head of Acquisitions at Tartan Films. James is currently responsible for acquiring an annual slate of 12 theatrical and 60 DVD releases. Metrodome releases of note include: The Counterfeiters, Monster and Donnie Darko. Upcoming releases include: Lebanon, I Am Love and the Oscar-nominated The Secret in their Eyes. This year Metrodome announced its move into production, with its first film Dragonfire recently wrapping production.

Sara Rose is currently heading up acquisitions at US distribution company Apparition. Most recently, Sara was Senior VP of Acquisitions and Co-Productions at Picturehouse. Prior to that, she was Executive VP of Production and Acquisitions at United Artists and Senior VP of Production and Acquisitions at Orion Pictures. Sara started her career in international sales with Dino De Laurentiis. The films Sara has acquired include: The Young Victoria, La Vie En Rose, Pan's Labyrinth, A Prairie Home Companion, Capote, Hotel Rwanda, Saved, 24 Hour Party People, Bowling For Columbine, Ghost World, Jeepers Creepers and No Man's Land. Founded by US distribution guru Bob Berney and producer Bill Pohlad, the new theatrical releasing company Apparition, is a fiercely independent and artist friendly distributor. The company’s initial slate includes Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life and Jane Campion’s Bright Star.  Apparition has an output relationship with Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group (SPWAG) for all domestic ancillary rights.

Andrew Mackie is the Joint Managing Director of Transmission Films, a Sydney-based feature film acquisitions and distribution company. Joint Transmission MDs Richard Payten and Andrew Mackie previously ran Dendy Films for six years before launching Transmission Films in partnership with Paramount. Prior to Transmission they released and acquired over 100 films, which grossed more than $125m box office in Australia and New Zealand, and earned 23 Oscar nominations, 3 Palmes d’Or and 150 AFI Award nominations. At Transmission Andrew has acquired the films An Education, Broken Embraces, Beneath Hill 60, Wog Boy 2: The Kings of Mykonos, Charlie & Boots, Griff The Invisible, Red Hill, The Painted Veil, The White Ribbon, Fish Tank, Antichrist, Che and Samson And Delilah, Balibo, My Year Without Sex (with Footprint Films).  Transmission also has an interest in Emile Sherman and Iain Canning’s production entity See-Saw Films and Fulcrum Media Finance.

Joel Pearlman is Managing Director of Roadshow Films and oversees the theatrical film distribution and acquisitions team. Recent theatrical releases have included Sherlock Holmes, Harry Potter And The Half Blood Prince and The Hangover. Joel also oversaw the distribution of the Lord Of The Rings trilogy, The Matrix trilogy and the Harry Potter films. In addition, Joel is responsible for Roadshow's Australian production division whose local releases have included Wolf Creek, Crackerjack, Looking For Alibrandi, The Dish, Boytown, Jindabyne, Beautiful Kate and the recent Australian releases of Bran Nue Dae and Mao's Last Dancer – Australia's highest grossing local film of 2009. Upcoming Australian releases include The Cup and Red Dog. Joel is also currently on the board of the Melbourne International Film Festival and the Motion Picture Distributors Association of Australia.

Matt Liebmann is the Commercial and New Business Director for Hoyts Cinemas. In this capacity, he is responsible for sales, alternate cinema uses, loyalty, research and data analytics and expansion opportunities into new businesses and geographies. Prior to joining Hoyts, Matthew was the General Manager of Skycity Cinemas, the leading cinema chain in New Zealand. He has also held a variety of roles at Village Cinemas, including Cinema Programmer, and Property and New Business Manager. Matthew was previously one of the leading experts for the entertainment and media sector at PricewaterhouseCoopers Australia. In this role, he provided strategic and business planning advice to many of the sector's leading participants. He was also the founding author and editor of the first five editions of The Australian Entertainment and Media Outlook, the sector's definitive annual publication, and was a frequent spokesperson on sector matters and trends.