Barry Avrich - Award-Winning Director and Founder of Melbar Entertainment Group

Host Sergio Navarretta talks to guest, award-winning director Barry Avrich, about the importance of marketing for creatives (and his own advertising background), paying attention to your audience, and how mentorship is key (and the influence of a few of his own mentors, including Quincy Jones). /// Veteran producer and award-winning director Barry Avrich is the creative force behind Melbar Entertainment Group, one of the largest producers of non-scripted content in North America. Barry has produced and directed over sixty documentaries and filmed productions, including the internationally-acclaimed MADE YOU LOOK, THE LAST MOGUL, PROSECUTING EVIL, DAVID FOSTER: OFF THE RECORD, and OSCAR PETERSON: BLACK + WHITE. He has also produced over twenty-one award-winning stage-to-screen adaptations of Broadway and Shakespeare productions, including THE TEMPEST with Christopher Plummer and KING LEAR with Colm Feore. Melbar is currently in production on BORN HUNGRY, PALM BEACH DIARIES, and WITHOUT PRECEDENT. Barry's best-selling memoir, MOGULS, MONSTERS, AND MADMEN, was released in 2017. Barry also built the world's first movie theatre in a hospital in 2007, at SickKids in Toronto.

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