Frank Antonelli

As President of DeZerlin Entertainment US, (a Chinese-owned company), Frank oversees original English-language IP including the animated feature Watch The Skies starring Sean Bean, Asa Butterfield, Gemma Arterton, Laura Haddock, and Sam Claflin. He is also producing the untitled Dean Semler/Caroline Zelder directed animated feature which begins production in spring 2020. Previously, as head of Alpha Pictures USA (2016-2018), the film and television subsidiary of China's entertainment/gaming/toy manufacturing giant Alpha Group (co-financier of The Revenant and Assassin's Creed), Frank ran all development, production, and US strategy, developing top Chinese IP from the famed U17 digital library into live action global film and television properties. In the past and present, he has had the good fortune of working with luminaries such as Hugh Jackman, Ridley Scott, Mel Gibson, Roberto Orci, David Barron, Ron Bass, and Henry Winkler. While in San Antonio researching the Jimmie Rodgers story for Fox/Icon productions several years ago, he proposed to his wife, director Caroline Zelder, and later spent the best summer of his life producing her directorial debut in Montana. He is a member of the WGA.