Ben Yennie is the Founder and CEO of Ben Yennie and Associates LLC, and founder at Producer Foundry. Former Chapter Leader for the Institute for International Film Finance for San Francisco, Vancouver, New York, and Los Angeles, where he hosted and organized many seminars on Film Finance, and screened business plans for an elite group of Angel Investors known as The Film Angels.
He has attached well known starts to projects, including Jodelle Ferland of Twilight: Eclipse and Claudia Christian of Babylon 5. He's co-ran Kickstarter campaigns raising in excess of 33,000 dollars, and has secured multiple six figure distribution deals while in the script stage. He's also the author of the upcoming book, The Guerrilla Rep: American Film Market Distribution Success on No Budget.
He has also worked periodically with various casting studios, and has worked in the financial and insurance industries with companies like Primerica and American Income Life. He worked directly with Mark Marchesani, Senior National Sale Director to become a better salesman while working with Primerica. Ben Studied at the Colorado Film School and Academy of Art University.
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