His short film, Silent Rain, received a Student Academy Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as well as the Student Emmy. He graduated from the USC School of Cinematic Arts in 1993. Sebastian started in the business as an agent's assistant in the motion picture department at ICM. Sebastian’s first production job was from 1995-1999 for Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner’s Paramount-based company where he started as an assistant and was promoted to creative executive, actively participating in the making of Mission: Impossible I-II and Without Limits.
He also worked on numerous pilots and on-air tv series for Ron Howard and Brian Grazer’s Imagine Entertainment. His experience in distribution has spanned over 15 years.īefore that, Sebastian was the head of development for a Paramount-based production company called Craftsman Films, founded by Kerry McCluggage, which developed numerous studio projects, including the initial development for the feature film reinvention of the Star Trek franchise.įor three years, he worked in comedy and drama development at Touchstone Television, the tv production division of the Walt Disney Company and ABC, where he staffed on six produced pilots.
As a senior acquisitions executive for Allumination FilmWorks (a division of Content Media Corp.) which also specialized in the domestic distribution and foreign sales of independently produced feature films, he managed one of the company’s main accounts-the Slamdance Film Festival. Sebastian was previously a longtime partner in Circus Road Films which is a successful domestic film sales company. He is also the host of The Insiders which is a web series about the business of Hollywood. Clients have produced films which premiered at all of the major film festivals including Sundance, SXSW, Tribeca, Telluride and Toronto and which were released by most of the leading distributors theatrically and in all media. He is the founding partner of Savant Artists which advises and represents emerging filmmakers and content creators. Sebastian Twardosz has been very fortunate to work with leading companies in both film and television for the past twenty-five years.
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