Biography

Marc Smolowitz is a multi-award-winning director, producer, executive producer, and consulting producer who has been significantly involved in over 60 successful independent films. The combined footprint of his works has touched over 300 film festivals & markets on 5 continents, yielding substantial worldwide sales to theatrical, television, and VOD outlets, notable box office receipts, and numerous awards and nominations. As a producer and executive producer, he has raised over 35 million dollars for independent films over the last three decades.

Marc’s credits include films that have screened at top-tier festivals such as Sundance, Berlin, Venice, SXSW, Tribeca, Locarno, Chicago, Palm Springs, SFFILM, AFI Docs, IDFA, DOC NYC, CPH: DOX, Tokyo, Sydney, Melbourne, Viennale, Jerusalem, among others. His recent feature film, OUTERLANDS (2025), directed by Elena Oxman and starring Asia Kate Dillon, world premiered at SXSW, screened as the closing night selection of the 68th San Francisco International Film Festival, won seven major international awards, and was nominated for a 2026 Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay.

In 2009, Marc founded 13th Gen, a San Francisco-based company that works with a dynamic range of independent film partners globally to oversee the financing, production, post-production, marketing, sales, and distribution efforts of a vibrant portfolio of films and filmmakers. The company has successfully advanced Marc's career-long focus on powerful social issue filmmaking across all genres. In 2016, he received one of the prestigious Gotham Fellowships to attend the Cannes Film Festival's Producers Network, marking him as one of the USA's most influential independent film producers.
- IMDb mini biography by: 13th Gen