David Parks Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

New York/Chicago

Limitless Films, co-founded by producer/directors Ellen Goosenberg Kent and David Parks bring Oscar, Emmy, and Peabody award winning experience to the impactful and meaningful production of non-fiction films and series.

Los Angeles, Chicago

Viewfinder is an entertainment broadcast production and event company specializing in live event, non-scripted and scripted TV and film production.

Dallas, Los Angeles

Producer of the Independent feature film “The Short Game”. Partner in Green Jacket Productions, LLC. Developed and nurtured development of script and its writing. Created fundraising business plan and website. Worked with union reps, navigated SAG strike to become on of the first 38 films to work during the strike under the Interim Agreement. Oversaw budget and scheduling; location scouting, casting, gear rentals, and hiring of crew. Currently managing post-production.

Freelance Entertainment Consultant; Consulting Council Member at GLG (Gerson Lehrman Group). Consulting in all aspects of entertainment production, development and creative execution. Expertise in physical production across a broad spectrum of media for live events and their broadcast; scripted and unscripted projects; sponsor integration; budgeting; scheduling; and digital distribution.From assisting with early planning to putting out fires on projects already underway, as an independent consultant, I can help save time, effort and most importantly money by identifying inefficiencies and suggestion best practice processes to help guide your project to a successful completion.

Dallas, Texas, United States

Produced the national, Christmas Day ceremony of the unveiling of Dallas Maverick’s Hall of Fame legend Dirk Nowitski’s statue on the plaza outside the American Arlines Arena in Dallas. Oversaw budgeting, vendor contracting, crew, and day-of execution of event and its live stream. Took part in creative design and client presentations under the auspcies of the Corporate Magic account exec and creative director. Edited version apeared an hour later on the ABC/ESPN broadcast of the Mavericks-Lakers game.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Executive Producer/Director: 2022 Children's & Family Emmy AwardsCo-EP/Director: 2022 Lifestyle Emmy AwardsProducer: 2022 Daytime Emmy AwardsCo-EP/Director 2021 Emmy Awards ShowsSports Emmy Awards; News Emmy Awards; Documentary Emmy Awards; Daytime: Children's Emmy Awards; Daytime: Lifestyle & Digital Emmy AwardsPast:Executive Producer of the 44th, 45th, 46th & 47th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards and Daytime Creative Arts Emmys from Pasadena, CA.Director - 46th Annual Creative Arts Emmy AwardsWriter - 45th & 46th Annual Daytime Emmy AwardsExecutive-In-Charge - 43rd Annual Daytime Emmy Awards and Daytime Creative Arts Emmy Awards(2016 - 2021)

Pasadena, Ca

Executive Producer for Corporate Magic, the creative production agency for the 2018, 2017, 2016, & 2013 Tournament of Roses Parade. As production lead, planned and managed all aspects of production, schedule, budget, crew, performers and client interface for the creative execution of the parade opening and closing ceremonies. Oversaw the build-out of the on-street audio infrastructure and broadcast pool feed. Interfaced with broadcast networks on parade creative and timings. Worked closely with pool feed Director on TV coverage of the parade open and closing segments. In 2018, I was additionally tasked with producing the live network pool feed for the 2018 parade, providing broadcast feed to ABC, NBC, HGTV, RFD, Amazon Prime & KTLA.

Las Vegas, Nevada Area

EIC for the staging of the World Armwrestling League Championships. Overall management and design of event staging, infrastructure, budget and logistics. Interfaced with venue, sponsors and vendors for this annual sport competition that airs on ESPN.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Produced the reveal of the 2016 Ford Escape via a live public illusion event and digital broadcast at Hollywood & Highland. As an integration with Jimmy Kimmel Live! and JASH, this event was seen by millions of viewers.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Consulting Producer on live broadcast of series pilot.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Producer for the Radio Disney Music Awards "Ardy's Pre-Show Party" outdoor music festival and red carpet event. Broadcast live on the Disney Channel from LA Live.

Greater Chicago Area

Part of Sr. management team, launching this new digital sports network from the ground-up. Oversaw physical production, crew hiring, and studio management. Integral in the design and execution of the creative presentation of studio shows. Oversaw broadcast production of seven straight hours of live studio broadcasts, live Skypes, and remote packages. Involved with the design, layout, lighting, and aesthetics of the studio and control room.

Greater Los Angeles Area

EIC overseeing the production of a live week-long comedy special event. As production lead of YouTube/Google’s largest live initiative ever, built the infrastructure for six straight days of live streaming broadcasts from two locations featuring 75 of the biggest names in comedy. Drove the technical infrastructure, logistical planning, budgeting and creative development for this epic comedy event. Managed production and/or delivery of 25+ hours of original content, including narrative short films, comic videos, interstitials, commercials, and graphics.

Hollywood, Ca

Supervising Producer - Produced both the concert event and broadcast of annual Radio Disney's "Next Big Thing" talent competition.

Los Angeles

Oversaw creative operations; creative development of live events; RFP response; lead content producer. Basically... "made sure what we created could be produced and what we produced was what we created." TBA Global has been recognized as one of the industry leaders in live event creation and production. Oversaw the creative design and implementation of company event executions and RFP responses. Additionally, served as lead content producer on a myriad of B2B and B2C projects. Instrumental in TBA being named AOR for all Wal-Mart events for 2012. Other clients included BofA, Google, Chipotle, Monster.com, USA Today, ACS & ExxonMobile.

Greater Los Angeles Area

DF•C is a full-service creative studio, expert in the design and production of moving media for the iPad and other tablet devices. Providing cutting edge HD motion services for magazines, advertisers, app development DF•C works with clients from the early creative concept through finished production.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Greater New York City Area

As a contracted freelance producer, oversaw the creative design and physical implementation of the 2009, 2010 & 2011 NHL Bridgestone Winter Classic and 2011 NHL Heritage Classic outdoor hockey games, the 2009 NHL Awards, and the 2008 Face-Off Rocks. Responsible for creative design and concept, as well as scripts, stage design, talent, budgeting, logistics, scheduling, hiring of crew, and equipment rental. All of these projects have become instant classics drawing critical acclaim from the media and established tent-pole annual events for the NHL.

Outdoor NHL hockey game - Live from McMahon Stadium in Calgary, AB, Canada.

Supervising Producer for Entertainment of the 2009 Winter Classic on January 1st at Wrigley Field in Chicago.

Las Vegas

Live from Palms Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, the NHL Awards 2009.

Greater New York City Area

Benefiting the David Lynch Foundation. Concert on 4/4/09 at Radio City Music Hall. With performances by: Paul McCartney, RIngo Starr, Eddie Vedder, Ben Harper, Cheryl Crow, Donovan, Paul Horn, Jim James, Bettye Levette, Moby, Jerry Seinfeld.

Detroit, Mi

Live season launch event and concert for the NHL from the Fox Theatre in Detroit, MI. Live performance by Def Leppard in Detroit, with special guest performance by Alanis Morissette via satellite from Montreal.

Produced the Live "Building Implosion Escape" from Clearwater, Florida. This was part of Season 4 of Criss Angel Mindfreak series on A&E.

Supervising Producer of the Live series finale and Planet Green (Discovery) Network launch event. Live benefit concert at the Greeg Theatre in Los Angeles.

La, Mumbai, Cairo, Rio, London

Live Worldwide Broadcast of Pangea Day. International Film/Music/Speaker event. Using the power of film to bring the world together, Pangaea Day was a critically acclaimed worldwide event allowing people often divided by borders, differences, and conflicts to see themselves in others and initiate a global conversation for peace. A four-hour program of short films, live music and visionary speakers, Pangaea Day broadcast live from six international cities, in seven languages to millions of viewers via the internet, television and mobile devices. As Supervising Producer, coordinated the massive international broadcast as well as played a significant roll in the LA-based “home” event staged at Sony Studios.

Executive Producer of the 3 night music event "Where Music Meets Film" from the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. Live music from 11 Warner Bros recording artists including Josh Groban, Michelle Branch and Jason Mraz. One hour TV special aired on Fuse Network.

Live series finale from the House of Blues in Hollywood, CA.

London, Tokyo, Beijing, Sydney, Hamburg, Johannesburg, Rio De Janeiro, New York

As Supervising Producer of Live Earth: The Concerts for a Climate in Crisis, I supervised the design and implementation of the largest worldwide entertainment broadcast in TV history – 24 straight hours of content from 150 musical artists, originating from nine cities on all seven continents to an audience of over two billion viewers. Responsible for the implementation of the global satellite broadcast; logistical coordination of 9 producing/directing teams; creative design, production and distribution of internal video media; oversight of over one-thousand local Friends of Live Earth events. Additionally, I produced the concert broadcast in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil for a live audience of 700,000 on Copacabana Beach. Also, wrote, directed and oversaw the editing of the Live Earth post-event highlight reel.

La, Ny

Producer of "AOL Music Live!". Produced record-setting live concert events that broadcast on the Internet at AOL Music as well as simulcasts in movie theaters. Artist concerts included Jay-Z, Ciara, Linkin Park, Nelly Furtado, Fall Out Boy, My Chemical Romance, and the 2007 Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony. Responsible for full show presentation including artist relations, show rundown and script, set design, lighting, audio and video capture and the live internet broadcast. AOL Music Live! set viewing records for live Internet broadcasts.

Greater Nashville Area, Tn

Producer and part of the team that created this industry-changing music competition show.

Mfa, Cinema Production

Bs, Communication/Broadcast Journalism