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.
After Kevin co-won NYU's top prize for his documentary, he trained with Emmy-winning documentarian, Al Maysles. Since then, Kevin has produced and directed over 40 documentary shorts, from UCLAx, to client branded content. Kevin's reel here features Zoom interviews filmed during Covid, client work, and his NYU documentary that started it all. Here are this reel's eight subjects:
1) Oscar-nominated writer Ron Shelton on his baseball classic Bull Durham and the pitcher who inspired it;
2) Major League Director David Ward on this same "deadly weapon" pitcher;
3) Kevin's award-winning NYU documentary on New York City gangs;
4) Producer Jon Taplin on Martin Scorsese's breakout gangster film, Mean Streets;
5) Emmy-winning ad agency head Chuck Carey on the power of branded content;
6) NBC social-media marketer Ryan Eytcheson on how viewers consume content;
7) USC Film's Dr. Jenkins on how we share our deepest values through story;
8) And a portrait of child patient, Estefania, and her profound story ...