Marc Clebanoff
Managing Partner / Head of Sales
Award Winning Writer/Producer/Director
Marc Clebanoff, a graduate of the USC School of Cinema/Television, began his career at 20th Century Fox Television before moving onto a feature development position at USA Films (now Focus Features) under the award winning director of Nurse Betty and Lakeview Terrace Neil Labute. In 2004 Clebanoff founded Odyssey Motion Pictures, which evolved into a Global Sales Agency in 2011 and has a presence annually at the American Film Market, the European Film Market in Berlin, the Cannes Film Market in France, and more.
As a Sales Agent Clebanoff has sold films to clients including Lionsgate, Sony, Fox, Showtime, Shudder, Netflix, Starz, Tubi TV, Peacock, Vertical Entertainment, Samuel Goldwyn Films, Well Go USA, and distribution clients in 100+ countries worldwide.
Clebanoff spent two years (2006-2008) consulting for Quentin Tarantino’s indie motorcycle flick HELL RIDE, which premiered at Sundance in 2008. Clebanoff has produced and/or directed a gamut of award-winning independent films including action noir triller BREAK, which featured one of the final performances of acting icon David Carradine, family comedy GERALD, starring Louis Mandylor & Mickey Rooney, which garnered him his first Best Director award, POUND OF FLESH, starring Malcolm McDowell, which had its Showtime cable premiere in 2011, TV pilot ELWOOD starring Ron Perlman, Laura Harring & Michael Rooker, action thriller DARKNESS DESCENDS starring Danny Trejo, supernatural thriller The Mourning starring Louis Mandylor & Dominique Swain, and crime drama STAKEOUT starring Jeremy Sumpter & Oscar Nominee Tom Berenger.
Most recently Clebanoff has produced hit indie films such as actioner AS GOOD AS DEAD, starring Michael Jai White, GIRL LOST: A HOLLYWOOD STORY, the follow up to the 2017 super indie Girl Lost, comedy pilot STRIPPED starring Casper Van Dien, which he also directed, and the upcoming WW2 Action film DEATH MARCH, starring Scott Adkins.
Clebanoff also spent three years consulting for Activision-Blizzard, working on AAA game titles such as Call of Duty, Guitar Hero and Destiny.
Louis Mandylor
Partner / Producer
Award Winning Actor/Producer/Director
From Joey’s twin on Friends to playing brother Nick in My BIg Fat Greek Wedding 1, 2 & 3, Louis Mandylor has leading credits throughout a variety of highly acclaimed award winning films & television series, which also include CSI New York, CSI Miami, NCIS, Castle, Rules of Engagement, the ALMA Award winning drama film Price of Glory, Charmed, Can’t Hurry Love, Nash Bridges and the hit CBS series Martial Law as Detective Malone opposite Sammo Hung.
In recent years Louis co-starred opposite Cuba Gooding Jr. in two hit action films, as well as starred in and directed the award winning independent thriller Blindsided. Louis also created and directed the pilot episode for Elwood, a fantasy presentation starring Ron Perlman. Currently Louis headlines director William Kaufman’s high octane action drama The Brave as well as starring opposite Scott Adkins in the highly acclaimed 2018 Sony release The Debt Collector and its follow up sequel Debt Collectors. Additional recent credits include Doom 2 for Universal, Avengement, again opposite Scott Adkins, and Rambo 5 with Sylvestor Stallone.
In recent years Mandylor has directed an array of prominent indie films including 3 DAYS IN MALAY, OPERATION: BLOOD HUNT, and the upcoming WW2 Action film DEATH MARCH starring Scott Adkins.
Louis is a 7 time award winning director-filmmaker and keeps busy with his producing partner Marc Clebanoff as a partner of Odyssey Motion Pictures.