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ABOUT

Executive Producer • Creative Director

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Dustin is an innovative producer/director with a distinctive creative vision, having worked as a leader for several popular digital media companies and is the creator of many highly popular digital series, responsible for 100s of millions of online views.

 

Dustin has most recently been involved in a handful of exciting projects including serving as interim Pollock Theater Manager for UCSB’s Carsey-Wolf Center, revamping their video workflow and post-production process. He led projects for for Scout Productions, theNFTable.com, Curtiss Motorcycles, and served as an expert consultant for the REACT brand to better align their Snapchat Discover strategy. He continues to produce a variety of original content for social media and YouTube with an emphasis on DIY and Amazon affiliate sales.

 

Before that Dustin was the Director of Video for digital publisher Brainjolt, overseeing the entire video team which created content for all major social media platforms including 17 shows on Snapchat Discover. Prior that that Dustin was the Director of Video North America for Jellysmack, one of the top 10 video publishers in the world with over 3 billion unique monthly video views. Before that he was Executive Producer and Director of Original Programming for Mashable, overseeing dozens of original series and operating Mashable's YouTube channels including CineFix. Notable shows Dustin created, produced (and sometimes hosted) are "Homemade Movies, “DIY Prop Shop”, "DIY Costume Squad", "Scamalot", "The Toy Shop", "Trailer Mix", and "All The Memes". He also oversaw several Facebook Live shows and produced segments for the 2017 MTV Movie Awards. At Brainjolt, Jellysmack and Mashable, Dustin acted as “Head of Strategy”, “Head of Creative” and “Head of Production” simultaneously. He built and led lean production teams where he oversaw the creative development of new original series, ran the day-to-day of production, and created all-new digital studio facilities from the ground up.

 

Dustin has also created content for such companies as NBC’s The Voice, Fox Digital, and the MTV Movie Awards.

 

Aside from being an internet personality in his own right thanks to his many DIY videos (and his highly popular early-YouTube-era "Literal Video" series), Dustin has worked behind the scenes with such legendary figures as Ron Howard, Neil deGrasse Tyson, William Shatner, Weird Al Yankovic, Gal Gadot, Zach Galifianakis, Jon Hamm, James Franco, Denis Villeneuve, Mark Burnett, Haylee Steinfeld and many more.

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