Stuart Pollok has 30 years’ experience in the development, packaging, financing and production of film in both the major motion picture studio and independent markets, with producer/executive producer credits on over a dozen features and arranging over $300 million in film financing. Most recently he served as Head of International Production for Pagale SE, a Swedish production entity. Prior to that he served as President of Production for Indomitable Entertainment for 5 years, where he managed over $40 million of equity investments by a HNWI, including Sony’s SOUL SURFER, and ran a film finance consultancy for studio producers. At Indomitable, he executive produced Terence Davies’ A QUIET PASSION starring Cynthia Nixon as Emily Dickinson as well as Sony’s CRASH PAD starring Domhnall Gleeson, Thomas Haden Church, and Christina Applegate and Sony’s INTO THE GRIZZLY MAZE starring James Marsden, Thomas Jane and Billy Bob Thornton. He also set up a $150m slate financing mechanism with Sierra Affinity, Disney International and distributor Broad Green Pictures and ran a film finance consultancy for A-List studio producers. Before Indomitable, he was Head of Production at Studio Hamburg International Production, the largest television production entity in Germany owned by public broadcaster NDR/ARD, where he executive produced THE THREE INVESTIGATORS franchise for Disney International and set up a slate financing facility in excess of $100 million. At the turn of the millennium, as an independent producer, Stuart produced ONE OF THE HOLLYWOOD TEN starring Jeff Goldblum for Disney International and the BBC. He started his career at Neufeld/Rehme’s Prelude Pictures at Paramount Pictures in 1992, rising from intern to EVP, where he originated New Line’s LOST IN SPACE and set up a studio co-financing slate facility of $100 million.

Stuart is a former New York attorney and graduate of USC’s Peter Stark Producing Program. He is adjunct instructor on Film Finance for graduate students at USC and teaches courses on the business, law and economics of film/tv for undergraduates at UT Austin and UC Berkeley.