Peter Broderick is President of Next Wave Films, a company of the Independent Film Channel, which supplies finishing funds and other vital support to emerging filmmakers from the U.S. and abroad. Next Wave also executive produces digitally-shot features through its production arm - Agenda 2000. Next Wave's features include _Blood Guts Bullets and Octane (1998)_, The New Girlfriend (1999), Following (1998), 'The Hi-Line', Manic (2001) (2001 Sundance Film Festival), Some Body (2001) (2001 Sundance Film Festival) and 'The Trouble with Men and Women'; as well as the documentaries 'Southern Comfort', the winner of the 2001 Sundance Grand Jury Prize for best documentary; 'Sound and Fury', a 2001 Academy Award nominee for best documentary; Keep the River on Your Right: A Modern Cannibal Tale (2000) (winner of the 2001 IFC 2001 Truer Than Fiction Award); Amir Bar-Lev's _Fighter, The (2000)_, and Maxie Collier's 'Paper Chasers'.

Peter Broderick has given presentations on digital feature production at Toronto, Sundance, Cannes, Rotterdam, and other festivals, and has taught courses at UCLA on independent production. He wrote a catalytic series articles for Filmmaker magazine that stimulated many filmmakers to make ultra-low budget features, and has also written for Scientific American, Sight and Sound, and Moviemaker. He has also written for The New York Times, The Times of London, The Economist, and The Los Angeles Times Several of his other articles about digital filmmaking are available on the Next Wave Films website - www.nextwavefilms.com.

Peter Broderick first worked with Terrence Malick on Days of Heaven (1978), and then ran his production company, Hickory Street. A graduate of Brown University, Cambridge University, and Yale Law School, he practiced law in Washington, DC.