KEVIN MARDESICH
COMMUNICATIONS
WRITER, PRODUCER,
& MARKETER
Kevin offers full-service communications, specializing in writing, marketing, and story. He helps Oscar, Emmy, and other industry leaders tell their stories. Kevin's credits include: 1) PR for National Geographic; 2) developing scripts for Oliver Stone; 3) Troika ad agency campaigns, e.g., ESPN and Apple.com; 4) 40+ documentary shorts for global nonprofits like USAID and EDYN; as well as 5) writing/producing MTV's Emmy-winning interactive films, Take A Stand Against Violence. They earned White House praise. Kevin also teaches "online" at Stanford, USC, Fordham MBA, and UCLAx.
Kevin is a writer-producer-marketer. He is also an adjunct professor of the same, teaching future Oscar-nominated producer, Jean de Meuron (statue). As a professional, Kevin heralded unknown visionary writer, Geoff Fletcher (speech), who later won the Oscar for writing Precious.
Kevin's reel shows his sample stories across platforms. Credits include: documentary shorts; a creative brief for Captain America and The MTV Movie Awards; press releases for studios, ad agencies, and ESPN; and other projects.
Kevin (in blue) developed scripts for Producer Janet Yang who today serves as president of the Academy (the Oscars) as well as three-time Oscar winner, Oliver Stone. Kevin's notes developed the Oscar-nominated script, Nixon; HBO's Emmy-winning Best Film, Indictment: The McMartin Trial; and the Golden Globe-winning script The People vs. Larry Flynt, directed by Milos Forman. Kevin also wrote and produced MTV's Emmy-winning interactive films and campaign, Take A Stand Against Violence.
Kevin trains marketing-storytellers, too, e.g., copywriters Jeremy Graham and Mike Alfaro (above). They went viral with their Super Bowl ad (Vimeo link). Mike also created the viral game, Millennial Loteria (hipster card). Kevin currently teaches part-time at Stanford and other programs. He began this teaching-half of his career at The University of Texas' top-ranked Advertising Program and was then recruited by Chapman Film School and UCLAx. Kevin has also coached MTV, Univision, IceHotel, etc.
