Hanè Saga Advisory Board
Heidi Stangeland - Founder & CEO
A Norwegian Native, Heidi is an optioned and award-winning screenwriter and the founder of the Hané- Saga Filmmakers Conference. Heidi has always had a passion for storytelling and has been writing stories from a young age while also exploring storytelling through photography.
Alexia Melocchi, Board Member
Alexia Melocchi has over 25 producing credits of films from emerging filmmakers from all over the world and has been an instrumental facilitator to the financing process of movies by pre-buying on behalf of her International Distribution clients, which grossed 900 Million US in the box office in the last decade. She attends all Major Film and Television Markets and is fluent in five languages. She is also the host of the 5-Star rated podcast THE HEART OF SHOW BUSINESS and the author of the book by the same name, out for release at Christmas 2021
Jeremy Kaufman, Board Member
Jeremy is a veteran IP attorney in the entertainment field. Before working at Netflix, he worked at Disney and 20th Century Fox. Some of the shows he has worked on include High School Musical, The Muppets, Avatar, Modern Family, The Simpsons, X-Men, Ice Age, Empire, Family Guy, Glee, Sons of Anarchy, Stranger Things, The Witcher, When They See Us, and Bridgerton. Jeremy has been recognized as an IP Star by Managing IP, as a top 300 in-house IP professional by World Trademark Review, and the Netflix team has repeatedly been nominated as one of the best in-house teams in its industry, region, and the world.
David Wienir, Board Member
David Wienir is a Business Affairs Executive at Harper Collins, and prior was at United Talent Agency, UCLA Extension Instructor, founder of Entertainment Law Exposed and author.
Before HC, he practiced law at two of the top talent boutiques (Gang Tyre & Grubman) where he represented A-List clients including Spielberg and Madonna. He began his legal career as a litigator and First Amendment lawyer in New York with the 150-year-old international law firm Coudert Brothers, representing prominent book publishers along with the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
He has taught entertainment law for 20+ years, including at NYU’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, The New York Institute of Technology, The College of New Rochelle, and UCLA, and is the founder of the premier online entertainment law class Entertainment Law Exposed. www.entlawexposed.com
