Shelley Billik

Vice President, Environmental Initiatives, Warner Bros. Entertainment

Shelley Billik is Vice President of Environmental Initiatives for Warner Bros. Entertainment, where over the last 15 years she has established a wide variety of environmental policies and programs, including a waste reduction and recycling program, a materials donation program, and environmental procurement policy and purchasing specifications. Billik, who maintains oversight of the Studio’s energy efficiency and sustainable building design initiatives, has overseen Warner Bros.’ first LEED (Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design) building and the first solar energy project in the industry. Shelley is a LEED-accredited professional and was recently selected as an Environmental Leadership Catto Fellow by the Aspen Institute.

Hart Bochner

Actor/Writer/Director and Environmental Activist

Hart Bochner graduated from UC San Diego in 1978 with a BA in English Literature. Initially interested in directing, he was discovered at an AFI Open House in 1975 by the wife of Franklin Schaffner, and subsequently cast in Schaffner’s film ‘Islands in the Stream’, playing George C. Scott’s son. He went on to formal training as an actor with Peggy Feury at the Loft Studio from 1979 to 1985.

After years as a successful actor, Hart made the transition into directing with his short feature ‘The Buzzz’ starring Jon Lovitz. The film led to a deal with 20th Century Fox to direct the cult film, ‘PCU’. His newest film, which he wrote and directed, JUST ADD WATER, will be released in March 2008, and stars Dylan Walsh ("Nip/Tuck"), Danny DeVito, Jonah Hill ('Superbad", 'Knocked Up'), Justin Long (Live Free or Die Hard'), Tracy Middendorf, and Anika Noni Rose ('Dreamgirls'). He also starred in Campbell Scott's upcoming film, COMPANY RETREAT, which is due to be released in 2009.

Hart currently sits on the Leadership Council of the DGA’s PAC Committee, as well as the Board of Directors of the Environmental Media Association. Hart divides his time between homes in Los Angeles and France.

Jon Corcoran

Vice-President, Corporate Safety and Environmental Affairs, Sony Pictures Entertainment

Jon started his career working with the U.S. EPA Environmental Response Team. As a member of the team, Jon was required to respond to domestic “environmental” emergencies such as: train derailments, chemical (hazmat) spills, tire fires, explosions, and hazardous waste sites to assess the public health and environmental impacts of the event. Jon left the team to take a job with Edison Mission Energy, a global power producer, where he managed global environmental, safety and security programs for 7 years. After a brief period of employment with Mattel Inc., responsible for Environmental, Health and Safety compliance, Jon started with Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE). Currently the Vice President of Corporate Safety and Environmental Affairs, Jon manages a broad spectrum of functions including Fire and Life Safety, Medical Services, Corporate Safety and Environmental Affairs, and Production Safety. Some of his daily activities include monitoring compliance with the SPE ISO 14001 certified Environmental Management System; interacting with other Sony Group environmental and safety professionals; and coordinating environmental initiatives that include the reduction of energy consumption and the emissions of greenhouse gases by SPE business activities globally.

Cindy Harrell Horn

Co-Founder and Board Member, Environmental Media Initiative

Cindy Harrell Horn is known in Los Angeles and throughout the nation as an advocate for improving education, health, the environment, and national security.

Ms. Horn has tirelessly worked with the UCLA School of Public Health in California and the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in New Mexico in their new effort to combat emerging infectious diseases. Ms Horn has volunteered hundreds of hours and traveled thousands of miles to help secure bi-partisan funding and support for the UCLA/LANL High Speed, High Volume Laboratory Network. This new laboratory network will be capable of quickly analyzing and processing high quantities of biological samples, improving our nation's ability to respond to biological outbreaks whether they are natural (SARS, Avian Influenza), or manmade (weaponized anthrax), or other rapidly emerging public health threats.

Ms. Horn is a co-founder and member of the Board of the Environmental Media Association (EMA), a non-profit organization created to inspire and coordinate an entertainment industry response to global environmental crises. Formed in 1989, EMA educates and motivates members of the entertainment community to incorporate environmental themes and issues into television programs and films. It also serves as an informational resource center for both the entertainment and environmental communities, hosting an Annual Awards program to celebrate quality films and television programming that explores environmental themes.

Ms. Horn was a founding trustee of Heal the Bay and The Archer School for Girls. She has also served as a board member for The Coalition for Clean Air, TreePeople, The Natural Step, Bay Keeper, The Center for Environmental Education, The Sundance Institute, The Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences - Duke University, The UCLA School of Public Health, and is a member of the Painting Conservatory Council for the J. Paul Getty Museum. In 1991 she was appointed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator, William Reilly, to serve on the National Education Advisory Council and was awarded the State of California Legislative Woman of the Year. Ms Horn has been honored by American Oceans Campaign, Heal the Bay, The Archer School for Girls, EMA, and the UCLA School of Public Health.

Between the years of 1975 and 1988, Ms Horn was a New York and Los Angeles based model and actress. She worked with many of the major American fashion designers and magazines, as well as with some from abroad, appeared in over 100 national commercials, and enjoyed working in a few motion pictures and television roles.

Ms. Horn and her husband, Alan, reside in Los Angeles, California. Together they have two daughters, Cody and Cassidy.

Amy Lemisch

Director, California Film Commission

Amy Lemisch was appointed Director of the California Film Commission in May 2004. Prior to her appointment, Ms. Lemisch was a Producer for Penny Marshall’s company, Parkway Productions. She was responsible for over seeing physical production on all Parkway projects as well as selecting new material for the company to produce.

In her fifteen-year long association with Marshall and Parkway, Ms. Lemisch worked on nine feature films. Her past credits include: producer on the independent feature film WITH FRIENDS LIKE THESE; co-producer on RIDING IN CARS WITH BOYS (starring Drew Barrymore), THE PREACHER’S WIFE (starring Denzel Washington and Whitney Houston) and RENAISSANCE MAN (starring Danny DeVito); associate producer on AWAKENINGS, A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN, and CALENDAR GIRL; and post production supervisor on BIG.

Ms. Lemisch is a member of the Directors Guild of America and the Producers Guild of America.

Debbie Levin

President, Environmental Media Association

She’s not a Hollywood executive, filmmaker or performer, yet she is one of the entertainment industry’s most influential people. As surprisingly, she’s spent most of her adult life as a stay-at-home mother, subsequently tapping this experience to nurture a veteran nonprofit group into a catalytic force, one that impacts billion-dollar corporations and billions of people worldwide. While Oprah Winfrey and executives such as Sony’s Amy Pascal, Disney’s Anne Sweeney and MTV’s Judy McGrath regularly crown the “Most Powerful Women in Hollywood” lists, if they spotlighted those influencing Hollywood from the outside, at the top would be Debbie Levin.

Since becoming president of the Environmental Media Association (EMA) in February 2000, Levin has reenergized the venerable organization, transforming it into a marketer of eco-healthy messages and a magnet for young Hollywood. Under her leadership, EMA has increasingly worked with Hollywood to weave environmental themes into television and film storylines, and with celebrities to deliver lifestyle messages – through entertainment, PSAs, live events and as role models for “sustainable” behavior.

Charismatic, intelligent and caring, Levin has recruited a new generation of young celebrities for EMA’s Board of Directors. She’s grown its Environmental Media Awards into a prestigious annual event which this fall, for the first time, will air around the world via E! Entertainment and BBC International. She has also forged business-friendly partnerships with the likes of BP America, Clear Channel, Yahoo! and Toyota (Fortune magazine recently called EMA a “secret weapon” for Toyota/Lexus, crediting the organization and Levin as “single-handedly responsible for getting droves of celebrities into Toyota hybrids”).

After graduating USC Film School, Levin wrote film reviews and celebrity pieces, subsequently working as a television development executive. For fifteen years in-between she raised her two children and helped influence them into their chosen careers: son Asher (27), now a screenwriter, and daughter Alexx (23), who is launching a high-end organic fashion line. Levin immersed herself in the Hollywood community through L.A.’s exclusive Crossroads School, building powerful relationships as a volunteer. She would draw upon these relationships, as well as her expertise in creating amicable solutions and a lifelong passion for the environment, after attending an EMA luncheon in late 1999, where she was recruited to lead the organization into the new millennium.

Gary Peterson

Board Member, California Integrated Waste Management Board

Gary Petersen has served as president of Environmental Problem Solving Enterprises since 1997. The firm specializes in advancing environment-friendly programs and infrastructure, including the development of cleaner fuels, emergence of "green" technologies, and sustainable design and development. He serves as the environmental member of the California Integrated Waste Management Board.

Previously, Mr. Petersen was a vice-president with Waste Management, Inc.; director of environmental affairs for Recycle America from 1988 to 1997; and founder and president of Ecolo-Haul recycling from 1972 to 1988.

He is a national leader on recycling and sustainability issues and has advised local, State, and federal agencies; corporate entities; and business and environmental organizations. He is a member of the task force for the Greening of the White House and is chairman of the board of Green Seal. Mr. Petersen is a co-founder of the California Resource Recovery Association and is a founding member of the National Recycling Coalition.