Mass Abedi

Current

• Film Consultant / Producer's Liaison MovieSet at Abco Film Corp.
• TV Consultant / Local Production Manager ARD (1st German Television) at Abco Film Corp.

Past

• Supervising Producer/Production Consultant at RTL Televizia
• Production Consultant at Abco Film (Germany)
• Head of Production at Helkon Media

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Education

• The University of British Columbia
• Vancouver Film School
• Southern Alberta Institute of Technology

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Connections

47 connections

Industry

Motion Pictures and Film

Websites

• My Website

Mass Abedi’s Summary

Mass went to work for Berlusconi’s TELE 5 Network as Assistant Project Manager & Production Controller. He joined later Kirch Group’s German SportsNetwork DSF and the Plaza Media Broadcast Center as Project Manager for live Outside Broadcasting (OB), eventually becoming Head of the Production Units.

His qualifications also include corporate structuring and implementing of a production department as head of production of Helkon Media AG, a former major "new market" feature film production & distribution company in Germany.

In 2001, Mass was contracted as Event Manager for the German-Canadian Co-production Exchange Forum in Munich. Besides various other consulting jobs, Mass was later appointed as a Consultant to the HypoVereinsbank Consult (HVB-Consult), helping to evaluate the Kirch Group's film library.

Mass has also been working as a Project Manager for RTL in Croatia, supervising the Big Brother weekly-live reality show, structuring the Entertainment Department and coaching producers in monitoring & controlling their projects.

He is currently bringing his know-how & expertise into MovieSet.com, a next generation platform that brings behind-the-scenes filmmaking online, giving fans authentic access through its proprietary toolkit for Producers.

He is also consulting ARD/1st German Television as their local project manager to prepare for the next Olympic Winter Games 2010 in Vancouver & Whistler, for various World Cups in Winter 2009 and the World Figure Skating Championships 2009 in LA.

Mass Abedi’s Specialties:

Extensive TV Broadcast Production Management know-how to prepare and coordinate all kinds of live/semi-live projects in show & sports. Also professional Project Management know-how in organizational structuring, finding "bottlenecks" & restructuring. Producer's liaison and well networked into city politics. Speaks several languages besides German. German/Canadian/middle Eastern background.

Additional Information

Mass Abedi’s Websites:

• My Website

Mass Abedi’s Interests:

Contacts to foreign Broadcasters in need of production services for the Olympic Games 2010 in Vancouver & Whistler, BC, Canada

Mass Abedi’s Groups:

Director's Guild DGC, Project Management Institute PMI, German-Canadian Chamber of Commerce GCCC, Rotary International (Vancouver), German-Canadian Business Assoc. GCBA, Vancouver Board of Trade VBOT, Canadian Academy of Cinema & Television

•    Media Professionals Worldwide
•    Media & Entertainment Professionals
•    MovieSet.com

Mass Abedi’s Honors:

LIST OF PROJECTS

FEATURE FILMS:
History is Made at Night (Bill Pullman, Udo Kier) for Helkon & Scala, UK/GER/FIN
Heavy Metal FAKK 2 (2D/3D Animation) for Helkon & Cinegroupe, GER/CAN
Der tote Taucher im Wald (Uwe Ochsenknecht) for Helkon & MME, GER
2001:A Space Travesty (Leslie Nielsen, Ophélie Winter) for Helkon & 2001 Pic, USA/GER/CAN
Nick Knatterton (Jens Schaefer, Axel Milberg) for Helkon & Cultfilm, GER/AUT
Dark Blue World (Tara Fitzgerald, Dir: Jan Svérak) for Helkon & Portobello, UK/CZECH/GER

TV- SERIES:
TAD: Broken Badges/Das Psycho-Dezernat (TV series with Ernie Hudson) T.A.D. for Stephen J. Cannel Films USA/CAN
LM: Verkehrsgericht-Court TV series for Televersal, Hamburg & FSM Munich GER

PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT BROADCST MEDIA/LIVE OR SEMI-LIVE:
Production Consultant for major Broadcast-licensee for the Olympic Games 2010 in Vancouver & Whistler
Big Brother Weekly Studio-Show Zagreb/Croatia live
->see the whole list on www.abcofilm.com.

Mass Abedi’s Contact Settings

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