HARRIS TULCHIN & ASSOCIATES is an international entertainment and multimedia law firm created to provide cost effective expertise and timely professional service to its clients in the motion picture, television, music, and multimedia industries. Harris E. Tulchin is a veteran entertainment attorney with extensive background and experience in all phases of feature film, television, video, music, infomercial, and multimedia development, financing, production, and distribution. Recently, the firm was joined on an "Of Counsel" basis by veteran entertainment and music attorney David Helfant, New York multimedia lawyer, Lawrence J. Langs as well as entertainment attorney, author and producer Mark Litwak. The firm's Rome office is headed by Italian attorney, Silvio Tonazzi. French entertainment attorneys, Jean-Christophe Barjon and Jean-Francois Joffre head up the firm's Paris office.

HARRIS E. TULCHIN is a graduate of Cornell University and Hastings Law School, and has practiced law since 1978. He has lectured extensively at forums such as UCLA, AFI, IFP, and USC, and brings a wealth of studio and private practice experience to the firm. He has served as Senior Vice President of Business Affairs and General Counsel for Cinema Group; General Counsel and Head of Business Affairs for KCET Television; Senior Counsel for United Artists; Director of Business Affairs at MGM Television; and Counsel for American International Pictures and Filmways Pictures (now Orion Pictures). As a private practitioner, his clients have included, among others: SONY, Vestron, Ed Pressman, ICE CUBE, Sid Caesar, David Lynch/Kino Link, Gary Lucchesi/Tom Barad/Toys 'R Us, Richard Leakey, Chris/Rose Productions/MCA Universal, Showtime, Cineville/HBO, Palace Group, (U.K.), KCET Television, Cinema Group, Strand Releasing, Independent Entertainment Group, Galaxy International Releasing, TTL Films (Moscow), SC Entertainment, HMD Distribution, New Horizons, Julie Corman/Ezio Greggio, Matt Salinger, Kevin Yagher, Jones-Reiker, Ink., Hills Entertainment, Jorge Rivero, Teleline, Destination Cinema, Esco-Mex, Gibraltar Releasing, Crawford/Lane, Paul Ryan Productions, Ultra Studios, Flint Dille, Cineville Interactive, and numerous independent producers, writers, directors and actors. In addition, Mr. Tulchin has served as Executive Producer of several feature films, including the critically acclaimed To Sleep With Anger which was awarded the Special Jury Prize at the 1990 Sundance/U.S. Film Festival, had its international premiere at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival as one of the official selections for the Directors' Fortnight, and won four Independent Spirit Awards in Spring, 1991, as well as the recently completed Mona Must Die starring Marianne Sagebrecht, Uwe Ochsenknecht and Sheila Kelley, and directed by Donald Reiker.

PAUL D. FIX, J.D. is an entertainment attorney with a special interest in the internet and related legal issues. Mr. Fix has worked for NBC News, the Los Angeles County District Attorney and for the City Planning Commissioner of Ontario, California. He is a member of the Intellectual Property and Entertainment sections of the Beverly Hills Bar Association. Mr. Fix is currently Business Affairs Counsel for Harris Tulchin & Associates.

LAWRENCE J. LANGS, J.D.,M.B.A.

Mr. Langs has been working with his associates at Interactive Media Consulting as legal and business counsel exclusively to clients in the interactive media industry since 1991. Projects entail joint-ventures, mergers and acquisitions, corporate structuring, intellectual property, licensing and royalties, employment issues, venture funding and finance. Industries include multimedia title development and distribution, interactive television, commercial and internet based online services, interactive music products, and virtual reality systems and applications. These activities involve companies such as AT&T, Paramount, Simon & Schuster, Viacom New Media, Compton's New Media, VPL Research, Interplay, Broderbund, Time Warner, HyperBole Publishing, Media Vision, Orion Pictures, Interactive Electronics Corporation and West Coast Entertainment, among others.

From 1995-96 Larry was acting Business Development Manager for the New Media Division of Sybase, the world leader in interactive television deployments, and the 6th largest software company in the world. He was involved with strategic interactive television initiatives, was a team leader for the worldwide launch of Sybase's first series of internet products, and involved with developing and executing strategic relationships with internet companies.

Prior experience includes several years as an Investment Banker for Chemical Bank in New York, and two years as a Senior Strategic Consultant for Arthur D. Little in Boston. Mr. Langs holds a Juris Doctorate from Boston University School of Law, and a Master's Degree in Finance and Management of Technology from the Sloan School of Management at M.I.T. He is a member of the New York Bar.

He has been Vice President of the Los Angeles Chapter of the International Interactive Communications Society (IICS), and co-founder of the Interactive Finance Special Interest Group, and an active member of the Interactive Multimedia Association (IMA). Mr. Langs has been a speaker at many interactive media conferences, and guest lecturer at UCLA Extension classes on new media for the past 3 years. He taught a UCLA extension class on managing multimedia growth companies in Spring 1996. Taught classes on new media law and business for MCLE credit for California Bar Association and UCLA.

SILVIO TONAZZI, a native of Rome, and a senior partner of the Italian law firm BOSCO TONAZZI since 1972, Mr. Tonazzi specializes in entertainment law, with particular emphasis on copyright, civil, and international law. Mr. Tonazzi represents U.S. and other multinational corporations as well as individuals both in Italy and internationally. He has argued cases before the Italian Supreme and Constitutional Courts to which only a restricted number of Italian attorneys have access.

JEAN-CHRISTOPHE BARJON has practiced law in France since 1978, with a concentration on entertainment law and intellectual property. Admitted to the Bar in Paris, he can appear in court in France and before the E.E.C. Among the clients of Mr. Barjon's firm, BARJON & BARJON, are some of the premiere entertainment producers and packagers in France of theatrical feature films, television movies and miniseries, stage productions, as well as advertisers, banks, writers, actors, directors, and musicians. The firm has also developed a general practice department emphasizing Corporate, Business Acquisitions, and Bankruptcy. A member of the International Bar Association, and the International Association of Entertainment Lawyers, Mr. Barjon is also a member of "Association Europeenne des Conseils et Experts du Cinema et de la Communication Audiovisuelle," and "Association Internationale des Avocats du Droit d'Auteur." Mr. Barjon teaches seminars on Entertainment Law and torts at Mediajuri in Paris.

HARRIS TULCHIN & ASSOCIATES draws on the diverse backgrounds of its international associates in the theatrical, television, music, multimedia, and independent and studio film and video arenas to provide transactional legal services, production legal services, consultation services for project financing and distribution, producers' representation, and litigation involving all aspects of the entertainment, communications, and multimedia industries. The firm's client base includes distributors, production companies, independent producers, directors, writers, actors, musicians, developers, special effects and graphics artists, and other talent involved in all aspects of the entertainment, communications, and multimedia businesses.