William W. Wilson
Production Executive at Media Guarantors @Media Guarantors
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WORK HISTORY
Production Executive at Media Guarantors @Media Guarantors
Los Angeles, CA, US
EDUCATION
Austin College
Bachelor of Science - BS
ABOUT WILLIAM W. WILSON
Executive producer/supervisor of complex, multi-country projects across 30 countries involving sensitive top-level government negotiations and complicated, international logistics. Executive liaison and collaborator with global leaders and celebrities. Culturally sensitive, top-level government negotiator. Project strategist and planner with expertise in governmental permitting and budget creation/management. Delivers multi-country projects in excess of $100M on time and within budget. Creates actionable working plans and budgets, negotiates permitting, manages cross-continent logistics, hires and manages large, multicultural, international crews in often unsettled environments.Achievements:• Led 11-month production of world\'s largest-ever mini-series, War and Remembrance, across 8 countries and 30 cities, hiring and directing 100s of multinational staff, and managing tons of equipment. • Negotiated permission from Soviet officials, KGB, and Russian Army to secure permits and cooperation to film on Red Square. • Led high-level negotiations in 2013 resulting in first US/China film co-production agreement, Arabian Nights, in absence of country co-production treaty.• Successfully set up complex international production operations in Cambodia with crew from 11 countries for 2017 Cambodian-American historical thriller.• Negotiated several months to gain Japanese government permission to film WWII-era sequence in Osaka, Japan.• Directed new Walt Disney Pictures and Television Europe Production Division in Paris • Negotiated access to funds blocked by South African government to co-finance Disney drama A Far Off Place.• Produced major projects in Austria, Cambodia, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, England, France, Germany, Hawaii, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Malaysia, Minneapolis, Namibia, Netherlands, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Switzerland, Thailand, Toronto, US, Vancouver, Venezuela, and Zimbabwe.
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