Biography

A member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, veteran film and entertainment industry publicist Maggie Begley has built a career over the past three decades that includes major studio, television network, independent public relations agency experience in addition to her own public relations consultancy, which she formed in 1993. Maggie Begley Communications (MBC) is a boutique public relations and strategic planning consultancy specializing in feature films and corporate entertainment arenas. Maggie Begley (MBC) has worked on numerous award-winning documentary, animated and feature films including all of the Oscar®-nominated Laika films: "Missing Link" (winner of the Golden Globe as "Best Animated Film"), "Kubo and the Two Strings" (BAFTA winner), "The Boxtrolls", "ParaNorman" and "Coraline"; the Oscar®-nominated documentary "The Invisible War," the award-winning documentary "Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World" on behalf of her longtime client, the Oneida Indian Nation. and the acclaimed documentary "The Hadza: Last of the First," which was invited to the United Nations Indigenous Peoples' Forum. Among her upcoming projects is the debut feature film from animation studio Locksmith Animation, "Ron's Gone Wrong.

Begley has positioned her consultancy as a specialist in animated, documentary and independent films. Her entertainment client list has included major entities in the film production, distribution, technology, and marketing sectors including Cinedigm Entertainment Group, Docurama, Anheuser-Busch Entertainment Marketing, the Oscar® and Bafta® Award-winning animation studio Laika, Locksmith Animation, Aardman Animations, Movio (the leader in data research for the film industry), Vista Group (the global leader in cinema software), Skechers Entertainment, The Gotham Group, Mainstay Entertainment, The Walt Disney Company, ExxonMobil, Lifetime Channel, HarperCollins Publishers, The Disney Channel, Universal Studios, Irish Film Board, MGM, TNT, PBS, NBC Productions, Paramount, and Twentieth Century Fox.
- IMDb mini biography by: Maggie Begley