Industry Panel ▪︎ The Sound of Story: Where Film & Music Meet

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75 minutes @Asylum NYC

If you’re a filmmaker who’s struggled with music choices, budgets, or rights — or a musician trying to understand how work actually lands in film and television — this panel is for you. The Sound of Story brings together award-winning music supervisors, producers, licensors, publishing experts, and platform leaders to break down how music really functions inside the filmmaking process, and why it needs to be part of the conversation earlier than most people think.

The discussion will cover the creative and financial tradeoffs between original scores and licensed music, common clearance mistakes, collaboration between directors, composers, and supervisors, and how music discovery, rights, and opportunity are evolving in a streaming-first industry. Practical and candid, this conversation offers filmmakers and music makers a shared framework for working together — and for building sound that truly serves the story.

PRESENTED BY

Jess Domain - Moderator

Jess is a multidisciplinary artist and the Chief Creative Officer/Co-Founder of the New York Comedy Film Festival. A recipient of the ASCAPlus Songwriter Award, her original music has appeared in over 100 films and tv shows. She toured with Aretha Franklin for three years, has shared stages with artists including Mitch Ryder and Don Was, and has collaborated with DJs, film and television composers, ad agencies, and Grammy-winning producers. Jess also wrote and produced the Off-Broadway play The Culture of Now and works at the intersection of music and storytelling across film, tv, and live performance.

Doug Bernheim - Panelist

Doug is a music supervisor and consultant for film, TV and brands.

Doug has music supervised over 100 feature films, as well as dozens of TV series for Apple TV+, Amazon Prime, Bravo, Showtime, VH1, MTV, Lifetime, A&E, WE tv, Viceland, TLC, History and Discovery.

He has also worked on advertisements and promotions for brands such as AMC TV, Olay, L'Oreal, Nautica, Grey Goose, Estee Lauder, Monday.com, Kohl's, Chase, and Citibank.

Doug co-created and co-produced the popular music compilation series “Christmas Remixed”, featuring modern remixes of vintage holiday recordings by Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Bing Crosby, Dean Martin, Nat King Cole and others.

In addition, Doug has been a guest speaker at numerous conferences and institutions such as NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Columbia University Journalism School, and Brooklyn College Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema.

Susan Jacobs - Panelist

In 2017, Susan was the historic winner of the first ever Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Supervision for the HBO series Big Little Lies, season finale episode, “You Get What You Need” and Emmy nominations for True Detective: Night Country and Pecados de mi Padre. She’s received multiple Guild of Music Supervisors Awards for work on Out of My Mind, Wild Life, King Richard, Promising Young Woman, The Farwell, I, Tonya, Big Little Lies, American Hustle, Wild, and Silver Linings Playbook. She also has three Grammy nominations under her belt for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Cruella, American Hustle and Little Miss Sunshine.

With a career spanning over twenty years, Susan has built a distinguished resume, including many other notable credits such as Split, Joy, Thank You For Your Service, Inside Job, Foxcatcher, The Visit, The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst, Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Before Night Falls, GasLand, Catfish, Kansas City, Basquiat, 54, Happiness, Unbreakable, The Village, Short Cuts, Capote, Lady in the Water and many more.

She started her career in music at Island Records as the assistant to founder Chris Blackwell and eventually transitioned into artist management. Later she met director Robert Altman, which started her down the path of Music Supervision.

Eric Elizalde-Knapp

- Panelist

Eric Elizalde-Knapp works in Music Publishing Partnerships and Business Development for YouTube Music. He focuses on engaging the publishing and songwriting communities, cultivating partnerships with music publishers and rights holders, and enhancing the YouTube product for music partners through new technologies and product offerings.

Eric also works on direct songwriter and producer initiatives at YouTube, leading dozens of workshops with hundreds of writers globally to empower attendees to maximize their platform engagement.

Eric joined YouTube following Google/YouTube's acquisition of the music-tech startup RightsFlow in 2011. In his free time, he co-founded the nonprofit animal rescue organization Animal Lighthouse Rescue and serves on its board of directors.

Ron Goldberg - Panelist

Ron Goldberg, Vice President of Manhattan Production Music has been actively involved in all aspects of producing, marketing and licensing production music, indie artist music and cover songs for over 30 years.  Ron has deep knowledge and years of experience regarding hiring artists and composers as well all the legal ramifications, sales and marketing that are involved with  production & indie music rights and clearances.

Some recent placements in film and TV have been songs he's licensed for the upcoming season of hit Prime series Reacher, Dancing With the Stars, the hit CBS show Tracker, the indie film Soul on Fire starring William H Macy,  the recent Hulu doc on Barbara Walters and much more.

Dave O’Donnell - Panelist

Dave O'Donnell is a Grammy-winning Producer, Mixer, and Engineer whose work spans decades and genres, with credits including James Taylor, Keith Richards, John Mayer, Eric Clapton, Sheryl Crow, Keb’ Mo’, Lyle Lovett, Milton Nascimento, The Rolling Stones, and Ray Charles.

He began his career at the legendary Power Station (now Power Station at BerkleeNYC), developing a deep musical foundation across a wide range of styles. That versatility—and his consistent dedication to the craft—has led to long-standing creative relationships with many of the artists he works with.

Dave co-produced, recorded, and mixed James Taylor’s American Standard, which won the 2021 GRAMMY Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album. He also produced, recorded, and mixed Taylor’s Before This World, which debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Top 200 Chart, earned two GRAMMY nominations, and won the TEC Award for Outstanding Record Production/Album. Additional recent credits include engineering and mixing Keith Richards’ Crosseyed Heart, Sheryl Crow’s Threads, and Bettye LaVette’s 2023 release LaVette!. His career honors also include a Best Jazz Vocal Album GRAMMY Award, three GRAMMY nominations for Best Engineered Album, a GRAMMY Album of the Year nomination, five TEC Awards, and two Emmy nominations.