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Peter Bierstedt
Entertainment Industry Consultant &
Attorney
Telephone: (323) 667-2698
Email: peter@bierstedt.com
Business and legal consultant to the
entertainment industry: including providing business affairs and legal services to
industry individuals and corporations; conceptualizing, negotiating, closing and
documenting business deals; creation and supervision of business and legal
affairs departments of motion picture and television companies; formulation of
business and financial plans, service on boards of directors, expert witness in
litigations, and other activities
Current Professional Data:
Education:
Previous Employment:
 | New World Entertainment
(1984-88):
 | Member of the Board of Directors (1987-88)
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| Senior Executive Vice President in the
Office of the Chairmen (highest ranking corporate officer after the three
Co-Chairmen)(1987-88)
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| Executive Vice President (1985-87)
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| General Counsel (1984-87)
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| President of various subsidiaries (1986-88),
including serving as President of New World Productions, New World Advertising, NWT
Productions, Inc., NWT Directions, Inc., Cine Qua Non, Rags Productions, Inc., Poker
Productions, Inc., Believers Productions, Inc., Tour of Duty Productions, After Promise
Productions Inc., Echoes in The Darkness Productions Inc.
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| Instrumental in several public financings in
the United States and Australia that raised a total of $321,689,731 for New World's motion
picture production and general corporate purposes; also responsible for numerous
private financings for New World
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| During Peter Bierstedt's tenure, the
executive team turned New World Entertainment (né New World Pictures) into the largest
independent film and television company in the United States, and it's annual revenues
soared during each year of service:
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| Avco Embassy Pictures (1977-83)
| Joined company as its junior staff attorney
in 1977
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| Appointed Vice President & General
Counsel one year later
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| One year later, appointed company's Senior
Vice President (second highest ranking executive in company) and a Member of its Board of
Directors
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| During Peter Bierstedt's tenure, the
executive team turned Avco Embassy Pictures into the largest independent film and
television company in the United States, and its annual revenues soared during each year
of service:
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| Boards of Directors: member
of the Boards of Directors of New World Entertainment and Avco Embassy Pictures and
also the Boards of Directors of the Motion Picture
Association of America (MPAA), FilmDallas Pictures, New World/Mutual Pictures of
Canada, Ltd., New World Pictures (Australia) Limited, Orbit Entertainment, and Cinedco
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| Executive Producer of The
Comic Book Greats, a series of 13 home videos (1992): Comicbook legend Stan Lee interviews Todd McFarlane and other other leading comicbook artists
of that time
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| Attorney in solo practice (1971,
1975-76, 1983-85 and since 1988); also practiced law with Hardee Barovick Konecky
& Braun (1972-74 and 1976)(a major entertainment law firm) and with Davis Polk & Wardwell (1969-70)(a major Wall Street law
firm)
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| University Guest Lecturer, e.g.,
"Producing Motion Pictures: Making a Studio Deal," University
of Southern California, 1986; "Wide Release of a Studio Motion Picture, Limited
Release of an Independent Distributor's Motion Picture and the Acquisition of a Completed
Motion Picture by a Distribution Company," University
of California at Los Angeles, 1987; "Foreign Sales Agents,"
Intellectual Property and Unfair Competition Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association, 1989;
"Matrimonial Law," University of California At
Riverside, 1977-1978.; and at various times at Leonard Shapiro's course on
Independent Motion Picture Production and Distribution at University
of California at Los Angeles.
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| Other Work Experiences include New York City taxi driver,
door-to-door encyclopedia salesman in New York City, government employee (Port of New York Authority), and manager of a Danish
rock group (Savage Rose)
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Personal Interests:
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