Trailer Geeks and Teaser Gods

Proclaimed by the LA Times as the "Trailer Titan" and placed on Entertainment Weekly's Top Creative People in Hollywood "It" List, Bob Israel has had an extraordinary career in entertainment. His achievements include producing blockbuster films that launched major careers, creating the longest running movie advertising agency in Hollywood, and overseeing the prestigious star-studded Key Art Award...

Matt Bravmann is a marketing guru currently with The Hollywood Reporter as Marketing Director, Film/TV. Matt started his career as a Marketing Intern with ESPN before moving on to help develop Marketing and Social media strategies for The New York Mets, WWE, Shindig, and Brigade, an award winning, full-service entertainment digital marketing & publicity agency, before landing at The Hollywood Repo...

Ron Moler Ron started his career at the young age of 13 shooting surf movies with his mother's movie camera.  They weren't very good but it set the hook. Ron Graduated from the Cal State Fullerton University film department. First Job CBS Television, Television City. Worked his way up to promo editor. After freelancing around for a couple of years he started Aspect Ratio with Bob Israel. Ultimatel...

Loren Schwartz is one of the most successful, versatile genre entertainment marketing executives in the business.  For over 20 years he has had huge success in charge of marketing and creative for both big studio and independent studio divisions at Sony Pictures, Screen Gems, Warner Brothers and 20th Century Fox. As well as working with some of Hollywood's biggest talents.  Some of his successes i...

Christine G. Birch is the CEO of THE ROYGBIV COLLECTIVE. Christine immigrated to the US from the island of Jamaica at the age of 3. As a young girl, she taught herself to read & write before Kindergarten, resulting in her declaring the entire experience a waste of time & skipping it entirely. Since then, she has been on an incredible odyssey through the American Dream via its most famous education...

When he's not rocking out on stage, doing book readings or ripping through the canyons in his car, Brett is busy leading an incredibly talented team of editors, producers, writers and motion graphic designers, making cool marketing materials for all the major studios, networks and streaming services as Partner and creative director at The Refinery AV.   He has over 25 years of experience writing,...

Dawn Baillie is a founding partner of BLT Communications, an entertainment marketing agency employing over 200 passionate artists, strategists, and technologists. For more than 25 years, BLT has created award-winning campaigns for hundreds of film, television, streaming, and Broadway productions. In addition to numerous Clio Entertainment and Hollywood Reporter Key Art Awards (including Best Poste...

Creatively and fiscally responsible for over 1,000 theatrical trailers, corporate product reels, TV and radio campaigns. Jim created unique advertising for some of the most highly successful motion pictures of all time, including ET The Extraterrestrial, Planes Trains and Automobiles, Amadeus, The Color Purple, Crocodile Dundee, The Big Chill, and Home Alone. Formerly Executive VP of Creative Adve...

Mark joined Kaleidoscope Films in 1985 as General Manager before taking over the role of Senior VP. Mark left Kaleidoscope in 1996 to join Aspect Ratio, an award winning Creative Advertising agency that provides strategic marketing solutions across all entertainment platforms. Mark was first hired as Co-President, before becoming President and eventually was named President and CEO. Mark left Aspe...

GOOD NEWS FOR LATE BLOOMERS.   JOHN LONG'S CAREER PROVES YOU DON'T NEED A CLEAR PATH OR PLAN. JOHN STARTED IN THE INDUSTRY IN HIS 30s, CO-FOUNDED A COMPANY IN HIS LATE 40s AND, 15 YEARS LATER, IS STILL EXCITED AND CURIOUS. SINCE STARTING BUDDHA JONES IN 2005, JOHN AND CO-OWNER DAN ASMA HAVE BUILT A TEAM THAT'S CREATED AWARD-WINNING WORK ACROSS THE INDUSTRY INCLUDING ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD,...

Ask Chris Carlisle about his passion for breaking barriers in entertainment and media, and you will get stories of transformation—innovative business models, award-winning marketing campaigns,and breakthrough programming concepts that have continued to redefine the industry. A differentiating strength throughout his career is the depth and breadth of Chris's experience across platforms. From broad...

In 1977 Clive graduated from the London College of Printing and Graphic Arts (now London College of Communication) with a BA in Graphic Design. The experience he gained in London as a designer eventually bought him to Los Angeles in 1985 so he could pursue a career in the entertainment industry. After beginning at Cannon Films he went on to work at B. D. Fox, Seiniger Advertising (where he met his...

Jackson George, SVP of Creative Advertising at Disney, has worked in motion picture advertising for over 20 years and has been with Disney since 2012. Jackson has been named to AdAge's annual 40 Under 40 list, and has won many Key Art, Golden Trailer, & Clio awards. He is also a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.    At Disney, Jackson has guided the creative marketing campa...

Michael Blackburn is the Executive Creative Director of AV at Concept Arts where he recently oversaw the creation of Trailers and TV spots for the last two Spider-Man movies.  His love for all things editorial has led him on a career filled with twists. He worked in the Netherlands cutting international trailers, he cut a feature film in Moscow, and followed his heart to San Francisco where he acc...

David Sameth started out on the vendor side with Intralink and Seiniger Bloom. He then led Creative Advertising for Universal (Jurassic Park, Schindler's List, Field Of Dreams, Do The Right Thing) where he also created the in house trailer group. He was then at DreamWorks ( Saving Private Ryan, Gladiator, Anchorman, The Ring, Shrek) followed by Disney where he headed Marketing for all Pixar and Di...

Michael Greenfeld is a Co-founder of Picture Head Holdings, which owns Picture Head, Formosa Group, Picture Shop, Finale Vancouver and The Farm in London.  Along with his partners they have expanded Picture Head Holdings from a small boutique post facility to a leader in the post production field, offering a vast array of services for motion pictures, television, video games, streaming and commerc...

As EVP Crea. Adv. for Universal, Patrick has overseen successful campaigns incl JURASSIC WORLD, STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON, TED & PITCH PERFECT. Prior to Uni, he worked at Fox Searchlight, where he created award-winning campaigns for BLACK SWAN, SLUMDOG MILIONAIRE, JUNO & LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE. Patrick started at HBO where he worked on THE SOPRANOS, CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM & THE WIRE, winning awards for h...

Damon Wolf, Prez Worldwide Marketing at Lionsgate, leads on campaigns ranging from John Wick: Chapter 3 to Knives Out and Hitman's Bodyguard. Before that, he was Co-Head of Marketing at TriStar and Screen Gems working on Baby Driver, Don't Breathe, All the Money in the World, Trainspotting 2 and more. On the agency side, Wolf was partner at Fanthropology and Crew Creative where he worked on Harry...

The first ever Clio Entertainment Shortlist announcement show, with a number of truly special guests from the industry including Ashley Sewell and Chad Miller from AV Squad, Jennie Wilkes from Netflix, Ashley Falls from Clio, Patrick Starr from Universal, Matt Bravmann from the Hollywood Reporter, and Kelly Adelman from Trailer Park.

Doug Brandt owner of Monster Creative + Phantom Power has been editor, sound dsnr, graphic dsnr, music prod., crea, dir., + CEO. Doug became known at Ignition Creative for films such as Transformers, Spider-Man, Cloverfield, Kill Bill, and Shutter Island. Doug founded Industry Creative under the umbrella of The Ant Farm where he then became CEO, overseeing campaigns incl. Transformers, Mission Imp...

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Toddrick Spalding co-founded c90 Music Supervision after fifteen years in music creative at entertainment marketing agencies Mob Scene, Trailer Park, mOcean and Cimarron. He's done award winning work for clients as diverse as Warner Bros, Netflix, Disney, Nike, the NBA, Levi's, Microsoft, and has music supervised a handful of indie films and documentaries and has produced original music, covers an...

Oren Aviv was the long time President of Marketing and Production at Disney; was Pres. Marketing and CMO at 20th Century Fox; and was the first film executive at STX where he was the President & Chief Content Officer; responsible for marketing so many great films from Toy Story to the Incredibles , Pirates of the Carribean to the Narnia films, and more recently Bad Moms and Molly's Game. He is eve...

Jake Zim is a leader in developing innovation-based solutions and businesses in the ent industry. As SVP Virtual Reality at Sony Pictures, Jake Zim oversees global VR production and strategy for the motion picture group. He's led the dvlpmt of VR experiences incl Spider-Man: Homecoming, Can You Walk The Walk, and Groundhog Day: Like Father Like Son. The LA Times calls Zim "the first VR czar at a m...

Ross Patterson is an American actor, a NY Times best selling author and one of the world's leading podcasters heard on Drinkin Bros and the Ross Patterson Revolution. He has appeared in over 20 films including The New Guy, Accepted, and the 2006 Sundance film The Darwin Awards.   Tristan Drew is a film producer and was the founder, partner and exec producer of A Common Thread, a film and commercia...