WENDY BERNFELD
Wendy Bernfeld is the founder of Rights Stuff BV, established in 1999. She is a passionate film buff specialised in hard core content licensing negotiations and related rights advice for traditional media (film, TV, PayTV/pay per view, formats), and digital new media (Internet, mobile, interactive TV, VOD, portable devices).
Originally from Montreal, Wendy has over 24 years’ (17 in Europe) experience in film/payTV channel startup and programme buying, beginning originally as an entertainment lawyer and then spending the bulk of her career as a senior movie buyer/TV executive in various international tv networks. Positions in this area have included CEO of Canal+ International Acquisitions – and just prior as VP Program Acquisition/Special Projects, and in the centralised joint programme-buying conglomerates FilmNet/Nethold/Canal+ from 1993-98, with a particular specialty in major MPAA studio movie “output’’ deals.
From 1991-93, she was MD Alliance-Atlantis in Europe and prior to that, VP Program Acquisition for First Choice: Movie Network in Canada.
Wendy has a Bachelor of Laws Degree (LLB) from Queens University, after a year of BA/MBA courses in McGill and the University of Toronto. She is a member of both the Law Society (Upper Canada) and the Roll of Solicitors in the UK. She previously practised law in Canada with Blake Cassels & Graydon; Silverstein’s; and still earlier, was one of ten appointed as Law Clerk to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
Wendy Bernfeld is the founder of Rights Stuff BV, established in 1999. She is a passionate film buff specialised in hard core content licensing negotiations and related rights advice for traditional media (film, TV, PayTV/pay per view, formats), and digital new media (Internet, mobile, interactive TV, VOD, portable devices).
Originally from Montreal, Wendy has over 24 years’ (17 in Europe) experience in film/payTV channel startup and programme buying, beginning originally as an entertainment lawyer and then spending the bulk of her career as a senior movie buyer/TV executive in various international tv networks. Positions in this area have included CEO of Canal+ International Acquisitions – and just prior as VP Program Acquisition/Special Projects, and in the centralised joint programme-buying conglomerates FilmNet/Nethold/Canal+ from 1993-98, with a particular specialty in major MPAA studio movie “output’’ deals.
From 1991-93, she was MD Alliance-Atlantis in Europe and prior to that, VP Program Acquisition for First Choice: Movie Network in Canada.
Wendy has a Bachelor of Laws Degree (LLB) from Queens University, after a year of BA/MBA courses in McGill and the University of Toronto. She is a member of both the Law Society (Upper Canada) and the Roll of Solicitors in the UK. She previously practised law in Canada with Blake Cassels & Graydon; Silverstein’s; and still earlier, was one of ten appointed as Law Clerk to the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.