Richard Propper is founder and EVP of Solid Entertainment (www.solidentertainment.com) a broadcast and digital distribution company that is a source of non-fiction content for broadcasters and digital platforms in the domestic and international broadcast marketplace. He is a past President and CFO of the International Documentary Association (IDA), and founder and Managing Director of the WESTDOC conference (www.theWESTDOC.com).He has spoken as an authority on development, co-production agreements, digital distribution and the intricacies of international distribution at: MIPDOC, HOT DOCS, IFP, AFM, Silverdocs, Realscreen Summit, NATPE, IDA, UCLA, and USC. He also served as the Keynote Speaker at the Jiayuguan International Documentary and Animation Film Festival, Jiayuguan, China in 2012: The Emerging Digital Delivery Landscape.