AMANDA MARKS

WRITER • PRODUCER

CAREER SUMMARY

• Full creative production experience includes field directing, interviewing, casting, pitching, development, re-creations, post-production.

• Written entertainment content in all forms including: television & movie scripts, treatments, pitches, VO/narration, scenes, segments, trailers, TV spots, branded, and corporate

• Television/film clients include Netflix, ABC, CBS, Discovery, VH1, Travel and MTV; motion picture advertising clients include Pixar, Disney, Fox Searchlight, and Universal

• Produced & written dozens of hours of television, movie trailers, and TV spots, working in-studio, in edit bays, and on-location in 18 countries including Sudan, Colombia, Micronesia, Namibia, Italy, Iceland, UK, in 2 Canadian provinces and in 20 states across the USA

• Eight years in supervising roles, including Supervising Producer, Supervising Story Producer, and Creative Director.

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

• 5 seasons on top reality show, Discovery’s Expedition Unknown, including developing, writing, and producing current season’s double-ep. premier.

• Producing work in TV includes: RuPaul’s Drag Race (S11 & 12), Drag Race All-Stars (S04), Ghost Nation, Legendary Locations, Mummies Unwrapped and brand-new, cult-following talk show for Discovery, Josh Gates Tonight. 

• Hollywood Reporter Key Art Award winner and nominee for work on the trailer and TV marketing campaigns for feature films Juno and Wall-E.

• Sold script to and landed rewrite with Netflix for Christmas rom-com, Thea’s Christmas Wish.

• Directed recreation shoots and hundreds of voiceover recording sessions.