Paul W. Hazen

A twenty-five year veteran to the industry, Paul W. Hazen has been involved in the acquisition, negotiation, and placement of over 300+ independent feature films and television properties with domestic distributors, foreign sales agents, and territorial buyers through his consulting firm, Handshake Partners. In addition, as a Post Production Supervisor on 20+ features, he works closely with producers, filmmakers and his industry contacts to make sure all films are properly delivered on budget and on time using his vast network of vendors and labs. In addition to his roles as an Executive Producer, Producer's Rep, and Post Production Supervisor, he is a consultant for several distributors and sales agents such as Unified Pictures and Highland Film Group where he oversees Operations of the post-production, document/physical delivery intake, and territorial servicing for their production slate and film catalogs which numbers in the hundreds of titles.

He formerly headed up the IFTA On Demand VOD Aggregation service with Comcast-NBCUniversal that the Independent Film and Television Alliance launched in 2012 and also served as Head of Acquisitions and Operations for MarVista Entertainment where he worked closely with their development/production arm which produced both films and series for companies such as SyFy, Lifetime, Hallmark, ABC Family, Nickelodeon, and the Disney Channel. He spent the 10 years prior working at two separate entertainment law firms heading up their Producer's Rep divisions and assisting in the development, production, post-production and distribution of the properties created by the firm's Emmy and Academy Award winning clients.

He graduated with a M.A. degree in Mass Communication-Radio-Television-Film from Cal State University-Northridge and also holds both a B.A. degree from the University of California-San Diego and an Associate's Degree from Ohlone College.