AmberOffutt has been promoted to creative executive at Participant Productions,freeing her up to work on development and production at the Los Angeles-basedcompany.

Offuttpreviously served as executive assistant to Participant executivevice-president of creative affairs and production Chris Salvaterra.

Priorto joining Participant she worked at production companies LioneyesEntertainment and Ovation Entertainment. Offutt began her career as aproduction assistant on commercials.

Participant'srecent productions include Good Night, And Good Luck, Syriana, North Country and Murderball.Davis Guggenheim's eco-doc An Inconvenient Truth is currently in release through Paramount Classics.

Upcomingtitles include Richard Linklater's Fast Food Nation, which will be distributed through Fox Searchlight, anddocumentary The World According To Sesame Street.