John has held a wide range of positions in the entertainment industry over the last 20 years, including head of Disney Television Animation’s Shorts Lab, Vice President of Creative Development of Theme Park Productions – the media unit of Walt Disney Imagineering, and Senior Vice President of Development and Production at Witt-Thomas Films. He started his film career at Francis Coppola’s Zoetrope Studios as story editor, then moved to MGM to work as Director of Development for Freddie Fields, and later as Director of Development for Scott Rudin. John served as consulting producer for the indie film titled VARA: A BLESSING, directed by Khyentse Norbu (THE CUP) and he is currently the producer of MOSS, directed by Daniel Peddle.