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As a longtime agent at CAA, Mr. Krentzman knows the entertainment industry landscape. CAA is the most prominent and esteemed motion picture, television, and music agency in the history of the entertainment industry. For 20-years Mr. Krentzman served as a motion picture agent representing Hollywood’s top directors, producers, and writers. His clients included: Michael Bay, Francis Ford Coppola, Michael Mann, Antoine Fuqua, Jerry Bruckheimer, Sundance Films, and National Geographic. He has participated in transactions ranging from traditional talent employment and production arrangements to the territorial sales of motion picture distribution rights worldwide, as well as the structuring of international co-productions.

Mr. Krentzman had lived in Beijing on and off for 4 years while consulting for the film financing company, Dragon vision Media on their feature film and film school activities – working with the California Education Center, a Beijing-based company recruiting and placing Chinese high school students into American schools. He was also the Chief Operating Officer of Hollywood Gang - producers of The Departed, 300, The Immortals, and Se7en. Mr. Krentzman’s current consulting firm works with Creative Future and Media Seal both on behalf of the Hollywood community on their anti-piracy and hacking efforts. He is in post-production on an MGM feature film called The Domestics.

Mr. Krentzman has taught and or lectured both graduate and undergraduate courses on Hollywood business practices and film financing at various universities including Beijing Film Academy, USC, UCLA, Loyola Marymount, University of Hawaii, University of Arizona, American Film Institute, Academy of Art University, National Film School of Florence, Boston University, and Columbia College.