Meet The Team
Carol Bidault de l'Isle
Producer
Carol Bidault de l’Isle is an award-winning producer, specializing in international motion picture/television financing, distribution, and media asset acquisitions/management. She brings with her over 30 years of industry experience in the United States, Europe, and Latin America. She is currently producing a series of films for the NATIONAL LAMPOON COMPANY, DEGAS - a 6 part series based on the life of Edgar Degas for Serein Productions (France). She co-produced DALILAND directed by Mary Harron (AMERICAN PSYCHO), starring Erza Miller and Ben Kingsley for Serein Productions, produced THE SECURITY OF FEAR, starring Brad Dourif, William Baldwin, Jean-Marc Barr. In 2025, she now sits on the board of the Washington DC Independent Film Forum (www.dciff-indie.org. She is fluent in 4 languages. Read more
Simone Brown
Production Office Manager
Simone Brown is a Brazilian filmmaker living in New Orleans, Louisiana. For the past 30 years, she has worked on productions in Brazil that include documentaries, short movies, movies, commercials, tv series, game shows, talk shows, live shows, lifestyle shows, and video clips. In Brazil, she worked at various TV Broadcasts like Rede Record, Rede Bandeirantes, TV Cultura, Rede TV. She worked at Productions Film Houses like Fly Productions, Framewave Productions, Lightstar Studios, and O2 Filmes. She had the pleasure to work at O2 Filmes with the Oscar-nominated director Fernando Meirelles. Besides working as a Production Coordinator and, Line Producer in Films and TV, she worked for 12 years as a University Professor at Sao Judas University teaching Production to the Major Film and TV Audiovisual. She has natural leadership and management skills, which make her an experienced and creative Production Coordinator who enjoys taking on new challenges. Read more
Paola Andrade
Social Media Director
Paola Andrade is a Honduran filmmaker living in New Orleans, Louisiana. She is a senior at Loyola University New Orleans studying digital filmmaking and mass communication. She films the sports events at Tulane University during the school year such as volleyball, football, baseball, and basketball. During her time at Loyola, she worked on student films and created her own films. She has also worked on social media for the school of communication at Loyola. As of now, she creates content and markets upcoming projects on the MediaFusion Entertainment socials.
Jacqueline Davis
Story Editor
Jacqueline is a writer, filmmaker, and visual storyteller from South Louisiana. She discovered her passion for filmmaking while studying creative writing at LSU in Baton Rouge. After graduation, she moved to New Orleans, where she ”found her tribe” volunteering at the New Orleans Film Festival, participating in film competitions, and making her directorial debut with her first feature film.
In 2020, Jacqueline joined the MediaFusion team as a Freelance Script Editor and Communications Assistant, assisting the Lead Producer on various movie scripts and digital media projects. That same year, she moved to Chicago for grad school at Loyola University, earning her MC in Digital Media & Storytelling, and dove back into the news world as a staff writer for an independent newspaper.
Jacqueline has produced over a dozen film projects at Loyola, earning a student Emmy nomination and two BEA nominations. After graduation, Jacqueline transitioned to the ad world as a Producer at a post-production agency, managing everything from ad commercials to feature films for over two years.
From Chicago, Jacqueline is a freelance writer and script editor, currently working on MediaFusion Slate of projects.
David Bruskin
Story Analyst
DAVID N BRUSKIN has been a professional story analyst for over 30 years, nearly 25 of them at the Hollywood studios where he performed story analysis services on screenplays for films including FORREST GUMP, A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN, WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS, THE THREE STOOGES, and more. Over the years, he has written coverage (synopsis and comments) for over 10,000 screenplays, books, articles, plays, and other potential sources for screen stories. Somewhere in there, David was Director of Development at Laura Ziskin Productions. He has lectured on Story Analysis throughout his career, was President of IATSE Story Analysts Local 854, and later a board member of the Editors Guild. He attended USC’s School of Cinematic Arts where he earned a B.A. and M.A. in Cinema-TV Production, and an MFA in Motion Picture Producing from the Peter Stark Motion Picture Producing Program. He is the author/interviewer/editor of BEHIND THE THREE STOOGES: The White Brothers, the published version of an oral history he created on commission from the Directors Guild of America.
Claire Ambrosio
Business & Legal Affairs
Claire C. Ambrosio is a transactional lawyer with emphasis in the area of media and entertainment law. She acted as general counsel and director of business and legal affairs for several independent production companies. She handled all of the negotiations and drafting of the entertainment and media agreements required per project. In addition, she prepared business plans, investment materials, and prospectuses. She assisted her clients in attaching talent, financing, and distribution to their various projects. Read more
Pooja A. Chawla
Film Finance Advisor, Screenlight | Founding Partner, Samra Wealth Management
Pooja Chawla operates at the intersection of private capital and global media, advising on the structuring and deployment of investment across film, television, and emerging content. She works with sophisticated investors and established production stakeholders to align capital with commercially positioned storytelling through disciplined financial frameworks.
With over 18 years of experience in fiduciary asset management and private banking, including senior roles at Wells Fargo Private Bank and Morgan Stanley, she brings an institutional approach to film finance grounded in rigor, transparency, and risk awareness.
At Screenlight, she is part of a new generation of advisors redefining how content is financed—positioning film as a structured, investable asset class within global alternative investments.
Nancy Breslin
Writer, Photographer
Nancy Breslin is a Washington, DC-based photographer and filmmaker. She is the writer and producer of the award-winning short stop-motion film Velo Love, which screened at film festivals in 2024-2025. Her award-winning feature script The Bounty Hunters is being produced by MediaFusion Entertainment. She also specializes in photographs taken with pinhole and plastic cameras. For some projects she works with alternative photographic processes, video, and her cell phone. She has been interviewed by major press, such as NPR and Washington Post, including Mark Jenkins, who said of her pinhole work, "In her pictures, even the present is absent." Her popular video, "A Five-Minute Introduction to Pinhole Photography," is on Vimeo and YouTube.
Thierry Bidault de l'Isle
Liaison with Serein Productions (France)
President and Founder of Accelerated Bilingual Courses LLC (ABC), Thierry Bidault de l'Isle provides accelerated private French language courses. His clients have included executives of BNP, Goldman Sachs, and Cartier, among others; NGO officials, such as the United Nations; former US ambassador to the U.N. Samantha Power; and former US ambassador to France Janet Hartley. He has written books on French grammar, history, international relations, satellite systems, and French wine and is currently writing a novel about an ancestor, a crusader who died at the battle in Palestine during the 12th century. He also provides international companies, such as MediaFusion Entertainment (US) and Serien Production (France), with business liaison services.
Carol Bidault de l'Isle
Lead Producer
Carol Bidault de l’Isle is an award-winning producer, specializing in international motion picture/television financing, distribution, and media asset acquisitions/management. She brings with her over 30 years of industry experience in the United States, Europe, and Latin America. She is currently producing a series of films for the NATIONAL LAMPOON COMPANY, DEGAS - a 6 part series based on the life of Edgar Degas for Serein Productions (France). She co-produced DALILAND directed by Mary Harron (AMERICAN PSYCHO), starring Erza Miller and Ben Kingsley for Serein Productions, produced THE SECURITY OF FEAR, starring Brad Dourif, William Baldwin, Jean-Marc Barr. In 2025, she now sits on the board of the Washington DC Independent Film Form (www.dciff-indie.org. She is fluent in 4 languages.
Ms. Bidault began her career in script development working for the major film studios: Columbia, MGM, and Paramount in Los Angeles. She then worked with renowned independent producers and filmmakers, such as Dino de Laurentiis, Federico Fellini, and Sergio Leone, and then branched into distribution and international sales for Vestron, New World, and Lorimar Studios. She moved to Paris, France, where she worked as a finance and distribution consultant for the European Union/France MEDIA Program for 7 years, responsible for the gap financing of over 100 productions in Europe. She was then hired as a Mergers & Acquisitions consultant for France Telecom to work on a $1 billion merger in New York. She then moved to Washington, DC, where she was hired as a media asset management consultant by Discovery Communications (DCI) to manage their companywide media asset evaluation and distribution for 5 years. She was then hired to launch MediaFusion Entertainment, a media consulting company that worked with government organizations (Delegation of the European Union, Latin American Cultural Consulars), non-government agencies (Organization of American States, World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank), and spawned such programs as Cultural Assets, Washington, DC Independent Film Festival, Washington, DC Film Market, Cine Latino, and Mid-Atlantic Regional Showcase (MARS). She also produced seminars and conferences: the Annual Roundtable on International Film Distribution (Washington, DC); Washington, DC Independent Film Festival Seminars; International, National and Regional Advocacy Forums for industry professionals; and others.
Born in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Ms. Bidault (née Gomez-Robelo) grew up in Los Angeles, graduating high school from Westlake School for Girls; earned her Bachelor's degree from UCLA in Political Science, performed research for her Master’s degree in Paris at l'Institut des Etudes Politiques and La Sorbonne IV. She is fluent in four languages: English, French, Spanish, and Italian, and is a dual citizen of the United States and the European Union.
Ms. Bidault is active with women's organizations, including Women In Film & Television United States (currently on the Treasurer); WIFT International: a co-founding member of Women in Film International, served on the WIFTI board (2014 - 2018) as Vice Chair, Membership Chair, and WIFTI Short-Case Producer; a co-founding member of Women in Film & Television - Louisiana has served on the board since 2011 and President (2016 - 2018); co-founder of Women in Film (France); judge on the Women in Film Finishing Fund (2014, 2015, 2016); and a member of Women in Film & Video – Washington, DC (1995 to 2008) and volunteer for Women in Film Los Angeles.
Ms. Bidault is currently serving on the board of the Washington DC Independen Film Forum (www.dciff-indie.org) in charge of the "Independents on the Hill" program; won the Women in Film & Television Louisiana 2022 Iris Award for outstanding contributions to women in the industry, has also served on the Advisory Board of the New Orleans Film Society & Film Festival (2011 - 2018); Honor - Afghanistan Human Rights Film Festival - Advisor (2015); served as a founding film advisor to the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of American History - Warner Bros. Theatre (2011); is a recipient of the US Department of State/ Secretary's Open Forum Award, the nation's second-highest award for Outstanding Contribution to international cultural affairs and support to media arts (2002); Rettig Award/Rosebud Film Festival for Outstanding Service & Contribution to the Washington, DC; Maryland and Virginia film and video community, as well as other awards and recognition in the area of film and media.
Published Reports:
*America’s Image Abroad – The UNESCO Cultural Diversity Convention & US Motion Picture Exports (pdf attached)
*Study Economic Impact of the Film Industry in Latin America. For a copy of the report, please contact: cbidault@mediafusionent.com
* Zagat's Movie Guide (with E! Entertainment)
Claire Ambrosio
Business Affairs/ Associate Producer
Claire C. Ambrosio is a transactional lawyer with emphasis in the area of media and entertainment law. She acted as general counsel and director of business and legal affairs for several independent production companies. She handled all of the negotiations and drafting of the entertainment and media agreements required per project. In addition, she prepared business plans, investment materials, and prospectuses. She assisted her clients in attaching talent, financing, and distribution to their various projects.
Ms. Ambrosio acted as general counsel and director of business and legal affairs for Cecchi Gori Pictures, Inc. based in Los Angeles, California. Cecchi Gori Pictures was a related entity to Cecchi Gori Fin. M.V., one of the largest independent production and distribution movie companies in Europe. Ms. Ambrosio handled all negotiation and drafting of entertainment agreements for production, distribution, and acquisitions to or from Fin M.V. tremendous library. Ms. Ambrosio also negotiated and prepared co-financing documents using the European co-financing programs. In addition, Ms. Ambrosio dealt directly with all the guilds, studios, banks, and other media companies. She handled all facets of human resources including employment agreements and insurance.
Ms. Ambrosio has over twenty years of experience in the legal field working first as a paralegal, law clerk, and then as an attorney licensed in the State of California. She has worked for some of the largest law firms in the country. In addition to Ms. Ambrosio’s professional experience, she has donated much of her time and talents to non-profit organizations. She is past president of the Italian America Lawyers Association of Los Angeles County. Currently, she acts as legal advisor to the San Gennaro Foundation of Los Angeles County; as a special advisory board member to the annual Quintus Montreal Italian Film Festival held in Montreal, Canada and as an advisory board member to KlikVU, Inc a streaming video company based in New York, New York.
Ms. Ambrosio is a member of the Los Angeles County Bar Association, National Italian American Bar Association, National Italian American Foundation, and the Sons of Italy. Ms. Ambrosio is a native of New York State and was raised on Long Island. She attended the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., and received her law degree from Southwestern University School of Law in Los Angeles, California.
Simone Brown
Production Office Manager
Simone Brown is a Brazilian filmmaker living in New Orleans, Louisiana. For the past 30 years, she has worked on productions in Brazil that include documentaries, short movies, movies, commercials, tv series, game shows, talk shows, live shows, lifestyle shows, and video clips. In Brazil, she worked at various TV Broadcasts like Rede Record, Rede Bandeirantes, TV Cultura, Rede TV. She worked at Productions Film Houses like Fly Productions, Framewave Productions, Lightstar Studios, and O2 Filmes. She had the pleasure to work at O2 Filmes with the Oscar-nominated director Fernando Meirelles. Besides working as a Production Coordinator and Line Producer in Films and TV, she worked for 12 years as a University Professor at Sao Judas University teaching Production to the Major Film and TV Audiovisual. She has natural leadership and management skills, which make her an experienced and creative Production Coordinator who enjoys taking on new challenges.
She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts - Film and TV at FAAP University in 1991 and her Master`s degree in Marketing at Sao Judas University - Unimonte in 2008 in Brazil.
David Bruskin
Story Analyst
DAVID N BRUSKIN has been a professional story analyst for over 30 years, nearly 25 of them at the Hollywood studios where he performed story analysis services on screenplays for films including FORREST GUMP, A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN, WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS, THE THREE STOOGES, and more. Over the years, he has written coverage (synopsis and comments) for over 10,000 screenplays, books, articles, plays, and other potential sources for screen stories. Somewhere in there, David was Director of Development at Laura Ziskin Productions. He has lectured on Story Analysis throughout his career, was President of IATSE Story Analysts Local 854, and later a board member of the Editors Guild. He attended USC’s School of Cinematic Arts where he earned a B.A. and M.A. in Cinema-TV Production, and an MFA in Motion Picture Producing from the Peter Stark Motion Picture Producing Program. He is the author/interviewer/editor of BEHIND THE THREE STOOGES: The White Brothers, the published version of an oral history he created on commission from the Directors Guild of America.









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