Peter Broderick

Peter Broderick is President of Paradigm, which provides consulting services to filmmakers, media companies, film festivals, foundations, and other nonprofit organizations.

Broderick was founder and President of Next Wave Films, which helped launch the careers of exceptionally talented filmmakers from the U.S. and abroad. A company of the Independent Film Channel, Next Wave Films supplied finishing funds and other vital support to filmmakers, while helping them develop and implement festival, press, and distribution strategies. It also financed digital features through its production arm--Agenda 2000.

Next Wave's features included: Christopher Nolan's Following; Joe Carnahan's Blood Guts Bullets & Octane; Julie Money's Envy; Ron Judkins' The Hi-Line; Jordan Melamed's Manic, which premiered at Sundance 2001; Henry Barrial's Some Body, the first feature projected digitally in Dramatic Competition at Sundance (2001); and Kate Davis's Southern Comfort, the winner of the 2001 Sundance Grand Jury Prize for best documentary. Next Wave's other documentaries included: Josh Aronson's Sound and Fury, a 2001 Academy Award nominee for best documentary; David and Laurie Shapiro's Keep The River On Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale; and Amir Bar-Lev's Fighter. In addition to Manic, Next Wave's Agenda 2000 provided production financing to two other digital features: Maxie Collier's Paper Chasers and Tony Fisher's The Trouble with Men and Women.

A leading advocate of digital moviemaking, Broderick has given presentations on digital feature production at Cannes, Sundance, Toronto, Rotterdam, Edinburgh, Rio, and many other festivals. He has also been the keynote speaker at a number of international conferences, has taught courses at UCLA, and written articles for Scientific American, Filmmaker, Sight and Sound, and Moviemaker about DV filmmaking. Broderick also played a key role in the growth of the ultra-low budget feature movement. He wrote a catalytic series of articles for Filmmaker magazine that stimulated many filmmakers to make features on micro-budgets

Broderick was a board member of the Independent Feature Project/West, and chaired the selection committee for the Someone to Watch Award, which honors exceptionally talented independent filmmakers. He began his film career working with Terrence Malick on Days of Heaven, and then ran his production company, Hickory Street.

He has been a consultant to the Sundance Film Festival, PBS, the Charles Revson Foundation, and the Benton Foundation. He chaired the Rockefeller Foundation's National Video Task Force, which led to the creation of National Video Resources. An expert on new media, he is author of Independents in Cyberspace, a report analyzing potential uses of the internet by filmmakers. This report and several of his other articles about digital filmmaking are available on the Next Wave Films website (www.nextwavefilms.com). He has also written for The New York Times, The Times of London, The Economist, and The Los Angeles Times. A graduate of Brown University, Cambridge University, and Yale Law School, he practiced law in Washington, DC.