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Billy Frank

Overview

  • Birth name
    William Samuel Frank
  • Nickname
    • Billy
  • Height
    5′ 10″ (1.78 m)

Biography

  • Billy Frank has produced media content with various companies and his entertainment firm, Make It Happen Productions (MIHP), since early 2000, and most recently working on new endeavors with entertainment and entrepreneurial partners. Billy has been acknowledged for winning numerous awards for design, story, and execution for major networks, studios, and international brands. He produced the main title open for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno that ran the final eight years of the NBC hit program. Later, partnering with Bank of America and the Australian Tourist Commission, he produced the 35mm multi-award-winning short-film, "The Australia Experience," for the international launch and notoriety of the Olympic Games, and was the segment producer on the multi Oscar-winning film, "Seabiscuit.", in which the produced content takes you seamlessly from scene to scene within the film. Most recently, Billy is intending to produce a documentary of the Los Angeles Watts Rebellion of 1965, the story of a community coming together through sports, post, Riots. And is working passionately on a motion picture of the most notorious West Coast Cannabis smuggler, with renowned writer George Gallo (Midnight Run, Bad Boys, Bigger).
    - IMDb mini biography by: Laura-lynn Rivera

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  • Acknowledged at the 1997 Spirit of Hope Awards for earning over $250,000 for Being Alive (1997) Chicago Film Festival Nomination 1998 Doin' It Right (1995)
  • Billy Frank produced the launch campaigns for FX Network's "The Shield" which was the most watched series premier in cable history in 2002.
  • Produced the spots for Warner Channel's "Bim Bam Bum" campaigns which won two Gold 2008 BDA Latin America Design Awards.
  • Produced the opening title sequence for NBC's "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" which ran for 8 years.
  • In 2013 Billy's work as the executive producer and director of AT&T's Live Proud campaign featuring Adam Lambert won him an ADDY Award from the American Advertising Federation.

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