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Marc Smolowitz is an Academy Award nominated documentary film & television producer (The Weather Underground '03, Trembling Before G-d '01), published writer, and media/marketing professional with 17+ years of diverse professional experience across all aspects of the entertainment business. He is currently the Producer at TellyTopia, an Internet/TV/Broadband Media company based in the Silicon Valley where he oversees all creative, production and marketing endeavors. In 2008, he serves as Chair of Technology Circle at Full Circle Fund. He has also been the Co-chair of the Community Technology Network (CTN) of the Bay Area since it was founded in 2001 and serves on the Professional Advisory Committee for Digital Filmmaking, Web Design & Interactive Media at the Art Institute of California-Sn Francisco. Other current involvements include: Advisory Board, The Public Press, an innovative Bay Area journalism project; Grant Maker, Cultural Funding Panels, City of Oakland & County of Alameda. From 2002-2007, he was the Development Director & Senior Staff Producer at Access SF - Cable Channels 29/76, the nonprofit that manages community access cable television for the City and County of San Francisco. In this role, he oversaw all aspects of fund raising, marketing and business development and regularly developed quality television programming with local nonprofits partners. From 1995-2001, he was the President/Founder of Turbulent Arts, Inc., an international film and television company that served as a producer, distributor and sales agent for quality independent films from around the world. Notably, the company released LILIES, the film by John Greyson that won the Canadian Genie (Oscar) for Best Picture. In 1998, Turbulent Arts was ranked the 26th largest film company in the United States entertainment market, the 14th among independents (Source: The Hollywood Reporter.) Elsewhere in his career, Smolowitz has served as Executive Director of Petaluma Community Access TV, Programming Coordinator at the San Francisco International Film Festival, Founding Programmer at the Sacramento Festival of Cinema, among other key positions in the media, film, television and not-for-profit space.

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