Delbert Whetter
Delbert Whetter is the Chief Operating Officer and Head of Business Affairs for Exodus Film Group. He has served as the lead business affairs executive for numerous entertainment and digital content providers for nearly two decades. Delbert has negotiated talent and production agreements including acquisition, development, and film financing arrangements, and licenses of intellectual properties. He has worked on Exodus animated features,IGOR, The Hero of Color City, and Bunyan & Babe, receiving Co-Executive Producer credit on Exodus’ two recent films. Delbert earned his law degree from the George Washington University Law School in Washington, D.C., and his MBA from Pepperdine University’s Graziadio School of Business and Management.
Delbert serves on the Board of Directors of RespectAbility, a national non-profit organization that works with Hollywood to promote inclusion, representation, and authentic portrayals of people with disabilities in media. He also serves on the Disability Advisory Board of SFFILM. He was appointed in 2018 by the City of Santa Monica to serve a four-year term on its Disabilities Commission.
He is frequently engaged to consult, speak and conduct trainings at numerous entertainment studios, companies and organizations including Hollywood, Health & Society, Walt Disney Studios and affiliated film/television entities, NBC, DreamWorks Animation, Netflix, and Six Flags Theme Parks.
Delbert is currently producing Flash Before the Bang, a live-action narrative feature film based on a true story about an all-deaf high-school track & field championship team (Film Independent 2018 Producing Lab, 2019 PGA Power of Diversity Master Workshop, 2019 SFFILM Rainin Grant recipient, & 2019 WGA Disability Scene), and Live at the Deaf Club: The Story of Punk Rock at the San Francisco Deaf Club, a documentary about the legendary 1970’s punk rock venue (2020 California Humanities Grant recipient).
Sessions in which Delbert Whetter attends
Cinerama Dome - Theater
Claire Aguilar, International Documentary Associati (Participant)
Randy Haberkamp, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Participant)
Simon Kilmurry, International Documentary Association (Participant)
Cinerama Dome - Theater
Keynote
Molly Thompson, A+E Networks (Participant)
Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Linwood Dunn Theater
Interactive Workshop
Keith Ochwat, Paradigm Consulting (Participant)
Peter Broderick, Paradigm Consulting (Participant)
ArcLight Hollywood - Theater 8
Panel
Andrés Cediel, UC Berkeley (Participant)
Carrie Lozano, Sundance Institute (Moderator)
Dale Cohen, UCLA School of Law (Participant)
Marilyn Ness, Big Mouth Productions (Participant)
Katie Townsend, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press (Participant)
Film L.A. - Meeting Room
Panel
Aaron Butler (Participant)
Joel Goodman, Oovra Music (Moderator)
Vanessa Gould, Green Fuse Films (Participant)
Brooke Wentz, Seven Seas Music (Participant)
Cinerama Dome - Theater
Doug Block, The D-Word (Moderator)
Heidi Fleisher, D-Word co-host (Moderator)
Peter Gerard, The D-Word (Moderator)
Hussain Currimbhoy, Sundance Film Festival (Participant)
Erica Ginsberg, The D-Word (Moderator)
Marshall Curry, Marshall Curry Productions (Participant)
Nausheen Dadabhoy, Firelight Media (Participant)
Marilyn Ness, Big Mouth Productions (Participant)
Heidi Reinberg, Heidi Reinberg Big Idea, LLC (Participant)
Yvonne Welbon, Sisters in Cinema (Participant)
Cinerama Dome - Theater
Keynote
Michèle Stephenson, Rada Film Group (Participant)
ArcLight Hollywood - Theater 10
Panel
Loira Limbal, Firelight Media (Moderator)
Lyric R Cabral, Filmmaker (T)ERROR (Participant)
Jason DaSilva, AXS LAB INC. (Participant)
Ben-Alex Dupris, Bendigenous (Participant)
Deborah S. Esquenazi, Myth of Monsters Media, LLC (Participant)
Edwin Martinez, Nicole Films (Participant)
ArcLight Hollywood - Theater 10
Workshop
Robert Bahar, Semilla Verde Productions, Ltd. (Participant)
ArcLight Hollywood - Theater 10
Panel
Lisa Chanoff, Catapult Film Fund (Participant)
Monika Navarro, Firelight Media (Participant)
Bonni Cohen, Catapult Film Fund/ Actual Films (Moderator)
Molly Thompson, A+E Networks (Participant)
Caroline von Kuhn, Sundance Institute (Participant)
Hajnal Molnar-Szakacs, Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program (Participant)
Carrie Lozano, Sundance Institute (Participant)
Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Linwood Dunn Theater
Panel
David Weinstein, NEH (Moderator)
Jason Cohn, Bread and Butter Films (Participant)
Arwen Curry, Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin (Participant)
Lyn Goldfarb, Lyn Goldfarb Productions (Participant)
sally rubin, Holler Home Productions; Chapman University (Participant)
Alison Sotomayor, MOXIE MEDIA PRODUCTIONS (Participant)
Ashley York, USC (Participant)
Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Linwood Dunn Theater
Keynote
ArcLight Hollywood - Theater 8
Presentation
Steven Beer, Franklin, Weinrib, Rudell & Vassallo, P.C. (Participant)
Steve Holmgren (Participant)
Fred Siegel, Fred Siegel CPA (Participant)
ArcLight Hollywood - Theater 10
Panel
Kevin Iwashina, International Documentary Association, Endeavor Content (Moderator)
Alan Eyres, National Geographic (Participant)
Jannat Gargi, VulcanProductions (Participant)
Julie Goldman, Motto Pictures (Participant)
Justine Nagan, American Documentary / POV & America ReFramed (Participant)
Poh Si Teng, AJE Witness (Participant)
Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Linwood Dunn Theater
Panel
Lawrence Carter-Long, Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund (Moderator)
Jason DaSilva, AXS LAB INC. (Participant)
Cheryl Green (Participant)
Jim LeBrecht, Crip Camp (Participant)
Day Al-Mohamed, Invalid Corps Film (Participant)
Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - 1st Floor Conference Room
Convening
Jim LeBrecht, Crip Camp (Moderator)
Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Linwood Dunn Theater
Claire Aguilar, International Documentary Associati (Participant)
Simon Kilmurry, International Documentary Association (Participant)
Pickford Center for Motion Picture Study - Back Lot