Mark Austin Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, CA, US

Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Supervise marketing, international sales and distribution of film/TV/digital content worldwide and attend various international film/TV/content markets.
• Read, analyze and assess scripts for international performance potential, indentifying significant box office titles for box office comparisons.
• Negotiate and closed deals with broadcasters, distributors and digital platforms globally.
• Draft deal memos, sales agreements, managed product availability, generated sales and availability reports, and supervised the delivery of digital content.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Warner Bros Entertainment: (Senior Contract Administrator, International Television Distribution)
• Analyzed and drafted output deals as it relates to the billion dollar revenue generated from international sales and Warner output deals.
• Responsibilities included providing sales and avail reports, supervising window management of all product (features and TV series), drafting deal memos, inputting data into IPM database, and acting as liaison between.
• Supported CAO and EVP to help establish satellite offices throughout Southeast Asia and expand it global business.
• Supported SVP, Legal Affairs at Sony Pictures and its international sales and distribution group to review licensing deals for all new motion picture releases.Walt Disney Studios: (Contractor, In Home Sales, North.
• Generated new sales orders in connection with Amazon.com; and created new cash-in-advance and department orders.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Launched international sales company for film and TV licensing worldwide.
• Attended major film/TV markets, managed marketing campaigns and branding, negotiated and closed deals with global broadcasters, distributors and digital platforms.
• Drafted sales agreements, managed product availability, generated sales and availability reports, processed deal memos, and supervised the delivery of film and video materials to distributors worldwide.

Beverly Hills / London / Munich

• Supervised worldwide marketing and distribution of the Intermedia Film Library (box office earnings exceed $3B).
• Attended major film/TV markets, negotiated and closed deals with global broadcasters, distributors and digital platforms.
• Reviewed new business proposals and strategies; implemented marketing strategies; and supervised delivery of film/video materials worldwide.
• Responsible for company’s sales summaries and participations, analysis of distribution/royalty statements, overages and quarterly reports, handling VAT tax matters, and inventory of film/video materials held at labs.
• Representative to Independent Film & Television Alliance (IFTA).

• Managed all pay-per-view and V.O.D. output deals for both the U.S. and Canada.
• Responsibilities included drafting license agreements, submitting invoices, running collision and avail reports, and technical servicing.

Bfa, Drama, 3.8

Activities and Societies: • Graduated Summa Cum Laude. • Tisch School of the Arts Scholarship

Ba, Business

Activities and Societies: Vail Arts Scholarship Recepient