Martin F. Katz, LL.B. (Tor.), D.E.A. (Paris I)   Martin F. Katz is President and founder of Prospero Pictures, a Toronto-based film production and finance company specializing in international co-productions.   Martin has a twenty-year history in all aspects of media production and finance. Prior to founding Prospero Pictures, Martin was President and Chief Operating Officer of Grosvenor Park Film Financing Corporation. Previously, Martin served as Executive Producer at The Microsoft Network, and as a Producer and Executive Producer at Alliance Atlantis. He has also served as Head of Business Affairs at CBC Television.   Martin's feature film credits include Richard Attenborough’s Closing the Ring, Nick Hurran’s It’s a Boy Girl Thing, Terry George's Hotel Rwanda, Philip Saville's The Gospel of John, David Cronenberg's Spider, Michael Winterbottom's The Claim and Bronwyn Hughes' Stander, which the London Observer called “the greatest heist film since Reservoir Dogs.”   An internet pioneer, Martin was employee number 3 at Microsoft's MSN Canada where, as Executive Producer, he created the first episodic "web-umentary." The web-based documentary entitled Splice examined the work of Marshall McLuhan in the context of a society in transition from an analogue to a digital world. He developed and produced innovative interactive programming in collaboration with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Carol Shields, celebrated director David Cronenberg and comedians Jean-Guy Moreau and Rick Mercer. He also created the first 3-D internet experience, a Halloween special based on the successful YTV kids' series, Freaky Stories.   Martin has extensive experience as a producer of international treaty co-productions involving Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Luxembourg, Germany, New Zealand, Australia and South Africa.   Martin holds degrees in law from the Universities of Toronto and Paris and has served as professor of law at the French-language University of Moncton and Special Lecturer in Intellectual Property Law at the University of Toronto.