Mark Shady

Mark Shady is an award-winning producer with over 15 years of independent filmmaking experience. After touring the festival circuit and producing several feature films, including the critically acclaimed Baseball drama, High & Outside; A Baseball Noir, with Ernie Hudson and Geoffrey Lewis, Mark decided to venture into film distribution where he worked as an exhibitor or market coordinator at every major film market worldwide, including Cannes, Berlin, AFM, Sundance, Toronto, SXSW and both Mipcom & MipTV. Mark formed First Focus International, a producer & film rep company, in 2016 along with partner, Leif Holt, also a seasoned filmmaker. First Focus International helmed the release of All Between Us, with Tiffany Haddish, distributed by Vision Films in 2018. He has a development background with Senator Entertainment (formerly Mandate Pictures) and has also worked as a video game producer for TimePlay Entertainment, where he spearheaded TimePlay Sports; an interactive sports trivia game which launched nationwide at Dave & Busters.