Mitchell Block, M.B.A., M.F.A.

Adjunct Faculty

213.740.3304
mwblock@directcinema.com
LUC 302
http://docunomics.blogspot.com/

Mitchell Block conceived, co-created and was an executive producer of Carrier, a 10-hour doc series and produced the companion feature "Another Day in Paradise" financed and distributed by Icon Productions, which premiered on PBS in May 2008.  For seven years he worked as an acquisitions consultant for HBO Original Pictures (documentaries).  In 2002, Block was an executive producer of the Academy Award-winning documentary Big Mama for HBO.  He was a producing fellow at the American Film Institute (AFI), a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Television Academy, and the University Film and Video Association.  He is a columnist for Release Print and a regular contributor to International Documentary.  He was an executive producer of Stealing America: Vote by Vote, a feature documentary about the 2004 and 2006 elections which opened in New York and Los Angeles in August 2008.  His company, DirectCinema Limited, has handled the marketing and distribution of over 60 Oscar-nominated and winning documentaries, short and animated films.  Block has a B.F.A. and an M.F.A. from the Tisch School of the Arts and an M.B.A. from Columbia.  He lectures globally on independent producing, distribution and marketing.