Mark McKeown

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About Mark McKeown

A magnetic collaborator, Mark produces, shares, communicates and elaborates. His successful ventures have helped international brands and agencies. As a media maker, producer, core creative, manager, and team leader, Mark has delivered thrilling narratives and poignant memories, all gracefully handled under pressure, with challenging timelines and cross departmental collaboration. His experience in virtually every medium has been handled with grace and admiration by business and media professionals the globe over…Over his career, Mark has created and conceived acclaimed films, plays, performance installations and short form multi-media pieces. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Film Studies from the University of Missouri in Kansas City, and earned his MFA graduate degree in Film & Theatre Directing at the California Institute of the Arts. He’s served on the staff of both the Sundance and TriBeCa Film Festivals; received the prestigious Hollywood Foreign Press Scholarship and the Flixus Interdisciplinary Production Grant while at CalArts; and, was named as a finalist for the Princess Grace Award, Carol Fielding UFVA Grant, and a Fulbright Foundation Fellowship…His screenplays have been produced in the U.S. and in the Philippines; and is a Producer for film and television across southeast Asia, with industrial and commercial projects numbering in the hundreds. Add to this an illustrious career as a media professor on three continents; a part time political speech writer and campaign organizer; and, a nascent calling as a digital marketer.