“artists in motion is an artistic partnership dedicated to shaping and making bespoke content with like minded individuals whilst maintaining integrity in the idea from conception to execution.”

Mark Wild is Joint Managing Director and handles creative and production aspects of artists in motion. Mark is a multi-award winning producer and director of global television programmes with 20 years of experience in the UK film and television industry. He cut his teeth in advertising and architectural photography around the world before receiving a scholarship to the Joint Board of Film Industry Training. Recently Mark served as Director of International Development in the London office of National Geographic Television and prior to this as Head of Production and Development for Animal Planet International with the Discovery Channel. To date, he has garnered 114 awards for the programmes and films he has helped to develop and create including “Ocean Voyagers” (Japanese Film Festival 2009); “Meerkat Manor” (Wildscreen 2008); and “Crime Scene Wild” (Jackson Hole 2007). He was awarded a fellowship to the Royal Geographical Society for his services to exploration and film and has worked with the Kings Fund in England for the last decade in their Leadership Programmes.

Keith Rooney is Joint Managing Director and handles the legal and business affairs side of artists in motion. Keith is a qualified solicitor in the UK (England and Wales) and a qualified lawyer in the US (New York and California) with 20 years of experience in legal and business affairs in the television, film, music and new media industries in London, New York, LA and Washington, DC. Keith has a BA in Classics and English from Stanford University, an MFA in Screenwriting from Columbia University Film School and a JD from Columbia University Law School. Keith previously worked as a lawyer and business affairs executive for the Discovery Channel in London for several years, servicing Discovery’s networks in the UK, the US, EMEA, Asia and Latin America. Prior to that, Keith worked for the Discovery Channel in its US headquarters office; for MGM and Berry Gordy (the founder of Motown) in LA; and for Roxy Pictures, an independent film production company in New York. He has also worked for the BBC in London as a Legal & Business Affairs Manager and spent several years in private practice specialising in entertainment and intellectual property law at the law firms, Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro and Leopold, Petrich & Smith, in LA.