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 BILL BLOCK, President, QED Bill Block founded QED INTERNATIONAL in December 2005 where he leads day-to-day operations and strategy for the company. Previously, Block was President of Artisan Entertainment where he supervised all divisions – film production and acquisitions, international distribution, home entertainment, and television. Block managed Artisan’s senior lending as well as international distribution relationships. While at Artisan, Block acquired The Blair Witch Project which realized one of the most profitable returns on investment in film history. Artisan was successfully sold to Lionsgate in December 2003. Before Artisan, Blo…

 TED KOTCHEFF, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER, LAW & ORDER: SVU Ted Kotcheff was born William Theodore Kotcheff in Toronto, Canada in 1931. After graduating with a degree in English Literature, Kotcheff began his television career at the age of twenty-four when he joined the staff of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), with television still very much in its infancy in the country. Kotcheff was the youngest director on the staff of the CBC, where he worked for two years on shows such as General Motors Theatre, before leaving Canada in 1958 to live and work in the United Kingdom.   Kotcheff was inspired by his compatriot Sydney Newman, who had be…

  Lowell Cauffiel - Novelist, TV Writer Lowell Cauffiel, born in Michigan, is an American writer and TV producer. An award-winning reporter with the Detroit News and Detroit Monthly Magazine in the 1970s and 1980s, Cauffiel began his bookwriting career in 1988 with Masquerade: A True Story of Seduction, Compulsion and Murder. That title, and his 1997 New York Times bestseller House of Secrets, have appeared on many critics' lists of the best works in American true crime. As a nonfiction author, he's known for his meticulous research and accuracy, delivered in novel-like, page-turner style. Thematically, Cauffiel's books often explore how peop…