SCHEDULE:
9:00am Continental Breakfast
9:30am Seminar

WHERE:
Henrietta Mears Center
First Presbyterian Church of Hollywood
1760 N. Gower St.
Hollywood 90028
Enter off of Carlos Ave.
Park across the street from Mears.

RESERVATIONS:
$15 Couples
$10 Individuals
$5 Child Care for
children ages birth to 6 by advance registration only. Snacks will be served.

Reserve online
OR
24-hour Reservation Line 323-462-8486 ext. 333

Co-sponsored by Hollywood Connect, Hollywood Prayer Network and
Inter-Mission

KAREN AND JIM COVELL
Jim Covell is a composer whose musical scores have been heard on every major television network as well as worldwide on such shows as American Detective, Headliners & Legends With Matt Lauer, U.S Marshals., Changed Lives: Miracles of the Passion. and McGee & Me!. A few of Jim's feature film credits include The Elevator, starring Martin Landau, Santa With Muscles with Hulk Hogan, and The Ride, starring Michael Beane. He composed the score and conducted the London Symphony Orchestra for the feature film Left Behind.

Karen is a television producer and has worked on various TV shows and Specials, including most recently, Headliners And Legends With Matt Lauer, America's Throwaway Children and Changed Lives: Miracles of the Passion. She is also the Director of The Hollywood Prayer Network, a global movement of prayer for the Entertainment Industry.

Karen and Jim spend quite a bit of time in ministry in Hollywood, teaching an evangelism class in their home and speaking, both as a team and individually, to churches, colleges and groups across the country. Jim's non-musical passions are Mrs. Fields cookies, his girlfriend Karen, (who he's been married to for 22 years) and their two wonder boys Christopher and Cameron.

CHRISTOPHER AND KATHLEEN RILEY
As a husband-wife screenwriting team, Christopher and Kathleen Riley have worked in Hollywood for many years. They've written for Touchstone Pictures, Paramount Pictures, Mandalay Television Pictures and Sean Connery's Fountainbridge Films. Their first film, After the Truth, was a multiple-award-winning German-language courtroom thriller which sparked international controversy and earned its star, Goetz George, a best actor nomination for the prestigious European Film Award for his portrayal of Josef Mengele.

Christopher is the author of The Hollywood Standard: The Complete and Authoritative Guide to Script Format and Style, and is the director of the highly regarded Act One writing program. Through the organization We Can, Kathleen works to assist families affected by childhood brain tumors. The Rileys have four children, including a son with special needs.

PHIL AND KATHLEEN COOKE
Producing effective Christian programming in a language and style this culture understands would best describe the driving desire of Phil Cooke, Founder & Creative Director of Cooke Pictures in Santa Monica, California. As a producer and director, Phil has been breaking the rules for more than two decades in order to reach an audience with impact.

Phil has produced programming in more than 35 countries, and his online blog at philcooke.com is considered a highly regarded resource on issues of media, faith, and culture.

As a media consultant and producer, he has worked with the largest and most effective churches and media ministries in the United States, and has compiled a lifetime of teaching, training, and expertise in his highly regarded book "Successful Christian Television: Make Your Media Ministry a Reality" available at bookstores nationwide. Phil also has a Ph.D. in Theology, writing a doctoral dissertation titled, Through a Glass Darkly: Revelation as a New Paradigm for Understanding Modern Cinema.

Phil is also a founding partner in the successful commercial production company "Thomas/Winter/Cooke." With partners Mark Thomas, an award winning commercial producer, and motion picture producer Ralph Winter, Thomas/Winter/Cooke is positioned to create unforgettable commercials, branded content, and movies.

A commercial actress and businesswoman, Kathleen Cooke is not only a founding partner, but Stylist and Casting Director at Cooke Pictures. As an actress, she has won "Critic's Pick" awards from Backstage West Magazine for her performances in the Los Angeles theater scene, and was the featured actress in a national commercial campaign to raise awareness about Lupus, as well as advertising for Home Depot, SBC, Mitsubishi, "On Air" with Ryan Seacrest, and more.

Whether it's supervising casting on all dramatic and commercial projects produced by Cooke Pictures, or helping create the look and style of the production, Kathleen is a key member on the creative team.