Biography

Mark Shady is an award-winning producer with over 20 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. And most recently signed The Bellmen, starring Thomas Lennon, Richard Kind and Willie Garson for international distribution. While with First Focus International, Mark also participated in several film panels across the nation, including the 2018 New Mexico Film Commission's New Film And Media Conference & the 2021 Show Low, Arizona Film Festival, where he gave a seminar on how to find Distribution for feature films.

Mark left First Focus International in 2023 to form his own sales rep company, First Focus Independent, a sister company of First Focus International.

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.
- IMDb mini biography by: NDP, LLC