Breaking Borders, Building Legacies:
The New Rules of Global Impact
THE MASTERMIND, BY COPE
January - DUBAI
What happens when entertainment meets expansion, strategy meets storytelling, and global ambition meets unshakeable mission?
You get women who aren't asking for permission...they’re rewriting the playbook.
This panel brings together three forces who've mastered what most struggle with: going global without losing their voice. We will dive into:
The Expansion Equation: Culture × Strategy × Impact - Entertainment, Expansion, and Execution at the highest level.
Going Global Without Losing Your Voice - Lessons from the front lines of international entertainment and media.
Scale, Story, and Strategy: The Trifecta of Global Success - These women reveal how they launched, produced, and expanded world-class projects.
Featured Speakers
Amber Clifford - Founder - murai international
Amber is the founder of Murai International, a strategy firm operating at the intersection of global new market entry, culture, technology, and entertainment. Throughout her career she has worked with global powerhouses like the 2024 Paris Olympics & City of Saint-Denis, France, the Atlanta Falcons, and Chick-fil-A, among others.
Prior to founding Murai International, Amber led international product strategy for Disney+ in Amsterdam, where she oversaw the platform’s launch and market integration strategy across all of Europe, Asia and The Caribbean in more than 40 markets. Before this, she led the launch of Uber Eats to more than 15 countries across Europe, Middle East and Africa.
As one of tech’s leading international strategy experts, Amber has always excelled by combining her high EQ and knack for being a culture connector with powerful analytical thinking and data analysis to map out strategies for some of the world’s biggest brands. No matter the market, Amber believes there is always a balancing act between hyper-localization and scale, and there’s not a one-size-fits-all right answer but rather key principles to lead decision-making.
Her perspective bridges entertainment, technology, and consumer insight. She has been instrumental in shaping how streaming platforms use storytelling and data to expand audience ecosystems and evolve digital product experiences across diverse markets.
Maria Soccor - Actor, Director, Producer, and Founder - Maria Soccor Productions
Maria Soccor, founder of Maria Soccor Productions, is a film production company based in New Jersey with over 30 years of collective experience in feature film production, finance, and international sales- specializing in feature film risk assessment, development, packaging, finance structure, domestic and international co-production partnerships, and worldwide sales & distribution.
She is an award-winning filmmaker of the acclaimed documentary, Lords of BSV and has several feature documentaries currently in production; Freestyle Music: The Legacy, Tillie, and Sybil: In Her Own Words.
She is an Ambassador of Peace, and advocates for women in the film industry. Her event, Reel Women, was launched at The 82nd Venice International Film Festival. She also advocates for green productions, and often works with networks to advance these initiatives.
Her professional associations include the Feature Documentary Chapter of Film Fatales, SAG/AFTRA, AEA, Primetime Network, New York Women In Film and Television, and The Alliance of Women Directors. Soccor is also active in her community in Hudson County New Jersey as the former Media Director/Head of Operations for Educate The Block, now serving as a board member of this career training program.
Amy Baker - CEO AND CO-FOUNDER - winston baker
Amy Baker, CEO of WINSTON | BAKER, Amy oversees the company’s global strategic planning, business development and vendor relationships. Amy Co-Founded the FILM FINANCE FORUM® in 2008, which provides the premier series of events dedicated to bringing seasoned finance and entertainment executives together from around the globe. Winston Baker is a global leading entertainment industry content curator, addressing strategies for Entertainment Finance, Film, Television, Music, Sports and Ent-Technology. Amy has successfully organized sold out conferences, film festival programming and private events across the United States, Europe, Saudi Arabia, China, Pacific Asia and Latin America, along with a lineup of exciting virtual programs.
Thank you to our Supporting PARTNER
Maria Soccor Productions is a film production company based in New Jersey, leveraging the collective expertise and knowledge of partners who have over 30 years of experience in feature film production, finance, and international sales for the worldwide market. Our background in developing feature films has enabled us to establish strategic partnerships with essential finance, production, and distribution partners.
Our expertise is frequently sought after by top producers and investors to help them evaluate content risk and navigate complex worldwide sales and distribution challenges. Our strategic focus areas include, feature film risk assessment, feature film development, feature film packaging, structure of feature film finance, domestic and international co-production partnerships, worldwide sales & distribution, joint venture sales & distribution.