PRESS RELEASE

September 19, 2006

Attorney Jon Garon Film Financing Panelist at New Hampshire Film Expo

CONCORD, NH — Jon Garon, of counsel with Gallagher, Callahan & Gartrell, will be among the featured panelists at the New Hampshire Film Expo to take place October 12-15 in Portsmouth, NH.

Garon will participate in a panel discussion for filmmakers on financing of an independent film titled “Investments vs. Donations and Grants," presented by the New Hampshire Film and Television Office.

Attorney Garon is a nationally recognized authority on intellectual property, particularly copyright law, entertainment and media law, and is the author of The Independent Filmmaker's Law and Business Guide: Financing, Shooting, and Distributing Independent and Digital Films

He is also dean of the Hamline University School of Law of St. Paul, Minnesota.

Van McLeod, commissioner of the New Hampshire Department of Cultural Resources, and executive producer/director of “Murals” and “Romanticizing the Violence” will moderate the panel.

For more information, please see the NH Film Fest web site at www.nhfx.com

Gallagher, Callahan & Gartrell, PC, a sponsor of the New Hampshire Film Expo, is a multidisciplinary law firm with offices in Augusta, Maine; Boston, Massachusetts; and Concord, New Hampshire. The firm’s attorneys have experience with financing of independent film projects and related intellectual property matters such as copyright, trademarks and licensing.

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