Miles Mogulescu

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Miles V. Mogulescu (* 1947 ) is an American film producer , lawyer and manager who works primarily in the film industry.

Life

family

Miles Mogulescus parents were Maurice Mogulescu (1907-1988), co-owner of an art business, and Barbara Mogulescu (born Klitzman, 1914-2012), one at the New York University working sociologist . In 1981 Mogulescu married the choreographer Lisbeth Davidow in the Village Temple in New York.

Education and career

Mogulescu studied at the University of Chicago , where he received his bachelor's degree. He completed his studies with a Juris Doctor (JD) degree . In 1985 he was admitted to the bar.

Mogulescu has been a political activist since his youth. According to his own account, his interest in social justice was sparked at the age of 12 when he met Martin Luther King , for whom his father raised money. At the University of Chicago, Mogulescu was an active member of the left-wing student organization Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in the late 1960s and took part in protests.

In 1972, Mogulescu was hired by the University of Minnesota as the Video Access Coordinator for the West Bank Student Union Storefront Community Center. He used the medium of film and video for political education and recorded, among other things, campus demonstrations against the mining of the port of Hải Phong in the spring of 1972 . In 1973 he founded the organization University Community Video (UCV, later renamed Intermedia Arts Minnesota) with Stephen Kulczycki and Ron McCoy, and became its administrative coordinator. UCV initially broadcast a university-wide program and from 1974 was involved in the program Communitube , which ran on the public television of the station KTCA. Communitube was conceived as a video magazine in which residents of the region could have their say and had both cultural / entertaining and activist content. The follow-up show Changing Channels , a weekly alternative video magazine, aired until 1978, won several awards and established UCV as the center of video documentation in the Midwest .

In 1976 Mogulescu produced the 55-minute black and white documentary Union Maids (translated as "union women") together with the politically left-wing filmmakers Jim Klein and Julia Reichert . The film is based on the oral history publication Rank and File published in 1973 by Alice and Staughton Lynd . Personal Histories of Working-Class Organizers , which deals with the American trade union movement in the 1930s and 1940s. Thereby concentrating Union Maids to a selection of the interviewees, three active in Chicago trade unionists of the CIO . Mogulescu, Klein and Reichert were nominated as producers of the film at the 1978 Academy Awards for Best Documentary . In 1977 they won the Critics' Prize of the Syndicat Français de la Critique de Cinéma et des Films de Télévision for Best Short Film.

After joining UCV, Mogulescu worked as a manager (Executive in Charge of Business Affairs) for Propaganda Films and for Edward R. Pressman Films in the interactive media division. There he became Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the subsidiary Content Inc. in 1994, whose first project was the development of an interactive video game based on the film The Crow produced by Pressman .

Mogulescu also produced the TV western Montana (for HBO , 1990). Primarily he works as an entertainment attorney (attorney in the entertainment industry). In the late 1990s he worked as an associate (salaried lawyer) for Loeb & Loeb LLP in Century City . He has served as legal advisor or business affairs executive on a number of films, most recently No Escape (2015) and Whiplash (for Bold Films, 2014).

Mogulescu has been a regular contributor to The Huffington Post since 2006 .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1976: Union Maids (documentary)
  • 1990: Montana (TV movie)
  • 1992: Adventures in Spying

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lisbeth Davidow Wed To Miles Mogulescu. In: The New York Times . December 28, 1981. Retrieved January 1, 2020.
  2. ↑ James B Martindale; John Henry Hubbel: The Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory 1998. Martindale-Hubbell, Inc., Summit 1998.
  3. ^ Contributor Miles Mogulescu. Activist, Writer, Producer, and Entertainment Attorney huffpost.com. Accessed January 2, 2020.
  4. ^ Riots, Civil and Criminal Disorders. Hearings Before The Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of The Committee on Government Operations United States Senate. Ninety-First Congress, First Session. Part 20. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington 1969, p. 4489.
  5. ^ Deirdre Boyle: Subject to Change: Guerrilla Television Revisited. Oxford University Press, New York 1997, ISBN 0-19-504334-0 , p. 68.
  6. ^ University Community Video-Minneapolis. vdb.org. Accessed January 1, 2020.
  7. ^ Robert Niemi: History in the Media: Film and Television. ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara 2006, ISBN 1-57607-953-8 , p. 330.
  8. ↑ The 50th Academy Awards | 1978 oscars.org. Accessed January 1, 2020.
  9. ^ Prix ​​SFCC de la Critique 1977 syndicatdelacritique.com. Accessed January 1, 2020.
  10. ^ Pressman Films Set For Interactive Bow. In: Billboard . October 29, 1994, p. 76.
personal data
SURNAME Mogulescu, Miles
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mogulescu, Miles V.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film producer and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH 1947