Mark Johnston Email & Phone Number

Executive Producer at Alto New York

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Lead Creative Producer on Airbnb Experiences. Campaigns produced include Adventures, Animals, Cooking, and Online Experiences using a multi-cultural, global, highly adaptive In-House creative production model.

Beirut, Lebanon

WINE and WAR is a feature documentary about the history of winemaking in Lebanon and the resilience of the Lebanese entrepreneurial spirit seen through the lens of war and instability. In a time of global angst, the film is a timely reminder that uncertainty is a way of life for many and looks at the challenges of making wine in a region that has always lived with upheaval.Lebanon’s wine culture stretches back, almost 7,000 years, and the second millennium BC, the Phoenicians, a Canaanite people who inhabited the Levantine coast, created a powerful trading empire that gave the gift of wine to the then known world, including Greece and ancient Rome.This unique documentary explains this historical journey, with testimonies from those who fought to make wine in the 1975-90 civil war, the 2006 summer war, and those who continue to produce in the shadow of regional instability.Inspired by the award-winning book, Wines of Lebanon by Michael Karam, their astonishing stories tell of bravery, determination, and survival and how wine can be a unifier and a metaphor for life, hospitality, civilization, and a force for good in a region defined by turmoil and animosity.But above all, as we brace ourselves for change not seen in our lifetime, Wine and War is a compelling reminder that history is fraught with challenges that have been faced and ultimately overcome. In a region that is not automatically associated with wine, it is a story of epic achievement, one that shows the best side of humanity, it’s history; it’s tradition of hospitality, and its generosity of spirit.

San Francisco Bay Area

Producer for Amazon Gaming Studios on New World , an upcoming massively multiplayer online role-playing video game set to be released in Spring 2021. The game was previously scheduled to launch in August 2020 after being delayed from its May 2020 release date and April 2020 beta date.

Produced the Guided Tour for iPhone XS, iPhone XS MAX, and iPhone XR launch

Greater New York City Area

Experiential and hidden camera productions using ECG monitoring technologies.

New York

EP on Olympics for Chobani, Jagermeister and Tullamore Dew overseeing Editorial, Business Affairs, and Trafficking. 3 x Multi Million dollar productions involving research and development, broadcast deliverables, bidding, post production, talent negotiations, radio, cinematics, legal, music licensing & negotiations, multi-national productions, trafficking, industrial, documentary, experiential, live events.

New York

Produced the 2016 American Express Blue Cash Back Oscars campaign with Celebrity talent, Tina Fey and Thomas Middleditch

New York

EP on Chobani, Bacardi, Dewars, Tullamore Dew, Martini, & Bombay Saphire• Overseeing Editorial, Business Affairs, and Trafficking departments for OW. Production research and development, broadcast, bidding, post production, talentnegotiations, radio, cinematics, legal, music licensing & negotiations, multi-national productions, trafficking, industrial, documentary, experiential, live events.

Lithuania

The Invisible Front is a feature documentary whose code name was used by the Soviet Interior Forces for the armed resistance in the occupied territories of the former Soviet Union. This resistance sprang to life without almost any outside support in 1940 and again in 1944, continuing in various forms, armed and unarmed, until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. This is the story of one of the twentieth centuries most significant anti-soviet resistance movements, told through the words and experiences of one of its leaders, Juozas Luksa and his fellow Forest Brothers. The film provides an understanding of the dynamics of the armed and unarmed underground resistance through interviews and first time access to never been seen before archival footage. Its a ground breaking film of a dying heritage. We have conducted over 50 on camera interviews, including dignitaries such President Adamkus of Lithuania and President Zatlers of Latvia, CIA operatives and US government officials, as well as the many specific individuals of Baltic Nations who fought not only against Stalin and his regime, but also those who fought for Moscow. The story seeks to understand both sides of this war, a war which ultimately contributed to the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, 50 years after its spark. It puts the question about the personal choice in times of hardship and repression. The dedicated team comprised Mark Ryan, Mark Johnston, Jonas Ohman, and Vincas Sruoginis have spent the past 4 years on production on location in New York, Washington DC, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania uncovering stories and facts that will provide for the first time an accurate account of this traumatic post-war struggle in Eastern Europe following World War II.

Manhattan

Senior Producer for Toyota and Canon

New York

Senior producer for American Express & Burger King

Manhattan

Produced the 100 year anniversary campaign with Errol Morris for Oreo cookies and Kraft Foods

Montreal, Canada Area

Produced the adidas "all in" global campaign. This was a massive around the world 360 production with celebrity athletes and talent encompassing the entire line up of adidas. One of if not the most expensive campaigns in the history of adidas. In addition to "all in", produced celebrity athlete campaigns for adidas climacool, adizero and 50 year anniversary campaign for The North Face.

New York, New York

Producer for Comcast, Belvedere, Movies on Demand, Amazon.com, Super 8.

Manhattan

Producer for Twix. Interactive adventure.

Producer on PlayStation, Nissan, and Infiniti

Ba, School Of Cinematic Arts

Summer Program For Swedish Cinema, Film/Cinema/Video Studies