Marc Smolowitz's Page

Name

Marc Smolowitz

Profession

Male

Company

Producer, TellyTopia

Location

San Francisco

Website

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0810625/

LinkedIn Address

http://www.linkedin.com/in/marcsmolowitz

Facebook Address

http://www.new.facebook.com/profile.php?id=769314330

Resume (Position, Network/Production Company, Year, Location, & Description) - you can cut and paste your resume here

Marc Smolowitz is an Academy Award nominated documentary film &
television producer (The Weather Underground '03, Trembling Before G-d
'01), published writer, and media/marketing professional with 18
years of diverse professional experience across all aspects of the
entertainment business. He is currently the Producer at TellyTopia, a
new media & technology company based in the Silicon Valley that provides
IP-TV solutions for cable operators, satellite companies and online media
channels.

In 2008, he serves as Chair of the Technology Impact Circle at Full Circle
Fund, an engaged philanthropy organization cultivating the next
generation of community leaders and driving lasting social change in
the S.F. Bay Area. He has also been the Co-chair of the Community
Technology Network (CTN) of the Bay Area since it was founded in 2001
and serves on the Professional Advisory Committees for Digital Filmmaking,
Web Design & Interactive Media at the Art Institutes of California-San Francisco
& Sunnyvale.

Other current leadership involvements include:
- Senior Planning Council, LGBT Alliance of the S.F. Jewish Federation
- Advisory Board, The Public Press, an innovative Bay Area journalism project
- Grant Maker, Cultural Funding Panels, City of Oakland & County of Alameda.

From 2002-2007, he was the Development Director & Senior Staff
Producer at Access SF - Cable Channels 29/76, the nonprofit that
manages community access cable television for the City and County of
San Francisco. In this role, he oversaw all aspects of fund raising,
marketing and business development and regularly developed quality
television programming with local nonprofits, education & government
partners.

From 1995-2001, he was the President/Founder of Turbulent Arts, Inc.,
an international film and television company that served as a producer,
distributor and sales agent for quality independent films from around
the world. Notably, the company released LILIES, the film by John Greyson
that won the Canadian Genie (Oscar) for Best Picture in 1997. In 1998,
Turbulent Arts was ranked the 26th largest film company in the United States
entertainment market, the 14th among independents (Source: The
Hollywood Reporter.)

Elsewhere in his career, Smolowitz has served as Executive Director of
Petaluma Community Access TV, Programming Coordinator at the San
Francisco International Film Festival, Founding Programmer at the
Sacramento Festival of Cinema, among other key positions in the media,
film, television and not-for-profit spaces.