Chris Dorr Email & Phone Number

Winston-Salem, NC, US

Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States

Teach screenwriting and producing graduate students the art and business of screenplay development, film marketing, distribution, new media strategy and content production.

New York, NY

Provide strategic and tactical guidance to a wide range of entertainment, media and technology companies with special expertise in video business development and business strategy. Selected engagements include:* Negotiated the licensing of 35 high-profile video apps for Samsung’s Internet-enabled TVs. Deals included HBO (HBO Go), MTV, MLB, NHL, NBA and.

• Built new global content partnership team to license movie and television content. Led a team of four senior executives located in U.S., Finland and India. Introduced new business model to company. Established strategy.
• Beat revenue projections by 100%, building unit from zero to $15,000,000 in revenues during the first year.
• Signed major deals with BBC, Sony Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox, Paramount Pictures, Warner Brothers and Reuters, as well as numerous smaller content providers.

• Developed/implemented video strategy and built new business unit. Created/managed video services with accountability for distributing digital video content to company portable devices. Provided leadership to senior.
• Refocused strategy when parent company changed direction. Created a successful PSP service. Acquired programming from 100 content owners, including independent music labels, MTV, Comedy Central, VH1 and HBO.
• Built PSP Connect content to over 4,000 programs within eight months. Attracted a monthly audience of 500,000 and generated 1,200,000 monthly downloads.
• Negotiated content deals to ensure usage of acquired content by all company service groups.

• Secured major investment from the Walt Disney Company for small technology start-up firm with innovative new payment technology. Introduced company to all major studios and networks. *Created business plan and secured.
• Produced The Deal. Led major overhaul of script and shepherded project to eventual sale to Sony.

• Provided leadership to team of 20, including two vice presidents. Managed content development and acquisition, user interface design, as well as promotion and encoding for programming delivered over the Internet and.
• Increased video programming 50% by negotiating new content deals with major movie studios, music labels, television networks, including Disney, DreamWorks, Fox, Universal, EMI, Warner Music, ESPN and NBC.
• Boosted subscription revenues 100% within three months by launching new, lower cost service offerings.

Produced Where The Money Is and Clay Pigeons. Persuaded owners to allow first time director, David Dobkin (The Wedding Crashers), to direct. Served as executive in charge of production for Showtime series The Hunger. Supervised all development and production for the company.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Reported to Ed Zwick and Marshall Herscovitz--developed The Pallbearer and Dangerous Beauty

Greater Los Angeles Area

Oversaw development and production of several movies, including Problem Child and Problem Child II

Greater Los Angeles Area

Oversaw development and production of several movies, including Dead Poet's Society