Geoff Cooper Email & Phone Number

Brisbane, Australia

Oversee the delivery of Queensland produced content for Nine. Responsible for the leadership and management of the planning, content development and delivery of successful Nine Queensland productions.

Board Director. Brisbane Powerhouse is an arts and cultural hub located in the Brisbane suburb of New Farm, Queensland, Australia. The venue offers an array of performing arts, visual arts, live music, festivals, and free community events. brisbanepowerhouse.org

Brisbane, Australia

Board Director. Screen Queensland supports and promotes a creative, innovative and commercially sustainable screen industry in Queensland that makes productions designed to entertain and connect with worldwide audiences.

Brisbane, Australia

Executive Producer of the inaugural Channel 9 Children's Hospital Telethon. The live 5 hour, primetime telecast help raise over $9.2 million for the Children's Hospital Foundation, in support of the new Lady Cilento Children's Hospital in Queensland. The Lady Cilento Children's Hospital will be Australia's largest and most advanced paediatric facility, opening in November 2014. http://9telethon.com.au

Brisbane, Australia

Network Executive Producer on two factual productions: Wacky World Beaters (Active TV) and Blue Zoo (Air Pig Productions/David Atkins Enterprises). I was responsible for commissioning and developing the two concepts in 2013 and oversaw their production in 2014. Information on Wacky World Beaters: http://worldscreen.com/articles/display/40786 http://www.tvtonight.com.au/2013/09/cameras-roll-on-abc3s-wacky-world-beaters.htmlInformation on Blue Zoo: http://worldscreen.com/articles/display/40786http://www.bluezootv.com.au

Brisbane, Australia

Consulted as the ABC3 Live Action Commissioner for ABC Children's Television. Supervised the assessment, selection, development and production of externally produced programs that include Drama, Comedy, Factual, Reality and Documentary concepts. The role was responsible for evaluating live action concepts submitted by Australian producers, responding in a timely manner and devising a development plan for successful projects. Once the program was commissioned, I was responsible for managing the project as the ABC3 Network Executive Producer. Factual programs included 'Blue Zoo' (Air Pig and DAE Enterprises), 'Wacky Worldbeaters' (Active TV), 'WAC - The World Animal Championships' (Black Lab), 'Bindi's Bootcamp' (Sticky Pictures) and 'Stay Tuned' (The Feds). Several drama concepts were also developed that are currently seeking finance.

Brisbane, Australia

Act as Executive Producer for ABC 3 on commissioned programmes including 'Bindi's Bootcamp' (Fremantle and Sticky Pictures) and 'Stay Tuned' (The Feds). Provide assessment of program proposals, oversee projects in development and provide feedback for projects in production.

Brisbane, Queensland

• Manage Ten's internal production department of 40+ staff located in Brisbane, Sydney/Adelaide and Melbourne. • Executive Produce Ten's multi-million dollar production slate of children's and documentary programs• Network Executive on several externally produced animations and dramas• Designing, developing and implementing creative solutions to attract audiences to each program• Creating new concepts by monitoring worldwide trends, building relationships with potential stakeholders and leading internal development teams. • Developing business plans (to ensure programs achieved the targeted return on investment) and style guide (to correlate the current trends in youth entertainment) for each production. • Creating programs to meet resource constraints ensuring the optimum usage of personnel, physical and budgetary resources. • Developing, designing and implementing marketing strategies including web, print and social media to significantly increase positive outcomes through securing new audiences• Cultivating complex business partnerships whilst simultaneously growing existing relationships predominantly within media outlets, sponsors, production partners and local state and federal government agencies.• Managing all aspects of Human Resources including recruitment and succession planning, training and development, managing disputes and personal grievances and change and performance management• Achievements include program creation of award winning programs 'Outback 8'​ (Ten/CBBC co-production), 'Scope'​ (Japan Prize - Best Educational program & Prix Jeunesse finalist) and 'Totally Footy'​, and negotiating the exclusive rights on several documentaries including 'Delivering the Pandas' (Chinese/Australian production).

Brisbane, Australia

• Being requested to provide ongoing and guest lecturing to students based on my capacity to develop and deliver lectures to students in an informative and engaging manner.

Brisbane, Australia

• Oversee production of 5 short films funded by the PFTC (now Screen Queensland) Short Film Fund and produced by first-time Producers and Directors. Tasks included successfully securing brokerage for package deals for all production and post-production requirements. This included supervising each stage of production, approving cast, key creative’s and crew and achieving a high creatively and technical standard on a low budget.

Brisbane, Australia

Coordinated and Lectured in two short courses: Producing the Short Film and Producing an Independent Feature Film

Brisbane, Australia

Manager and Consulting Producer of a Arts Organisation funded by the Australian Film Commission and Film Queensland. Developed the Filmmaker Support Programme which provided industry advice, resources and assistance to new and emerging talent.

Brisbane, Australia

Producer and key creative on five independent films. Secured sponsorship and funding for each production, lead creative development teams, managed all facets of production and created marketing and development plans to ensure each met their creative goals.

Boise, Idaho Area

Creation and Production of communications for Albertsons Corporate Communication Department. This included training videos, corporate newsletter and computer based training modules.

Bachelor Of Business - Communications, Major In Film And Television Production, Minor In Advertising

Intensive Management Program

Intensive Management Program designed for aspiring General Managers in Corporate and Government arenas

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