About this Event
Hampton Roads, Virginia-bred Ermantourage is back! We're bringing our brand of entertainment industry events to the 757 for our annual summit in Virginia Beach for an afternoon of special guest Q&A's, live performances, activations, booths, red carpet pictures, and networking!
Private event space given to registrants. Email [email protected] if interested in sponsorship or performing.
Special guests include:
-Jason Stein, creative executive, Lucasfilm
-Savannah Abrishamchian, development coordinator, Monkeypaw Productions
About the speakers:
Jason D. Stein is a creative executive in the Lucasfilm Story Group. Stein has been a member of Lucasfilm and its Story Group since February 2014. Jason D. Stein is known for Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018), Young Jedi Adventures (2023) and Star Wars: The Bad Batch (2021). Founded in 1971, Lucasfilm is one of the world's leading entertainment companies and home to the legendary Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises.
Savannah Abrishamchian is a Persian-Armenian American writer/photographer based in LA specializing in poetry, flash fiction, and screenwriting. Surrounded by a musical family, she spent most of her childhood dancing and singing aside from her usual arts & crafts. She earned a B.A. in English from University of San Diego where she was dedicated to flash fiction, poetry, photography, and literary magazine production.
Post-college, Savannah blossomed as Spotify's Jr. Writer for the ¡Viva Latino! Video Playlist writing short-docu style content for artists such as Ricky Martin and Demi Lovato. Soon after, she landed in CAA's TV Scripted department under Tony Etz and later served as the right hand to Jenni Konner (Girls, Camping) where she grew in Development. Savannah has since then been investing and spearheading her own screenwriting projects with aspirations to produce and direct, moonlighting as her own creative entity aside from her day-to-day profession as a Development Coordinator at Jordan Peele's Monkeypaw Productions. Most recently, Savannah produced Monkeypaw's Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror which landed on the New York Times Bestseller List and Barnes & Nobles Best Horror Books of 2023.
Savannah's pieces Alalia and Lolll Same. can be seen in San Francisco's The Racket. She adapted her poem Alalia into a short film, which she also directed during the pandemic in 2021. The piece won awards in Outstanding Achievement First Time Director Female and Outstanding Achievement Best Women Short for the Indie Short Fest, Los Angeles International Film Festival's 4th qualifying season for 2022, in addition to gaining a Certificate of Achievement as an Annual Finalist. The film was also nominated for Best Performance Piece, Experimental for the 2022 Micheaux Film Festival, and more. She is currently repped by Nadya Panfilov at Writ-Large and consistently wears two hats: creative and producorial.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Private Event Space, Virginia Beach, United States
USD 37.50 to USD 75.00
