James Patrick Brown

Creator of the global performance-art installation "I'm Not Afraid of Shia LaBeouf" and author of the Earth Metal Trilogy, Mr. Brown is an actor, publicist and producer who has been in the entertainment & technology industries since his first radio commercial voiceover in 1975. As product development director for Brand Cloud Media, ELT, Mr. Brown leads globalized creative teams in Mexico, Pakistan, India, Peru, Hungary, and Central Asia. They are designing and building distribution channels & business models for interactive-media & social-video producers. The teams are now beta-testing mobile apps created with the SalesForce1 mobile-app development platform, the Adobe Creative Cloud collaborative platform, and the Unity game engine. In the mid-90's he co-produced a "televised-live" technology conference in Washington DC featuring keynotes by industry titans Bill Gates and Andy Grove. Without advance notice, Jane Fonda, Ted Turner, Sam Donaldson, and Ron Brown, among other luminaries, crashed the party with surprise appearances and the main event was covered by AP, Reuters, Business Wire, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, PBS, C-SPAN, CNN, the Discovery Channel, and TV networks from Japan, Germany, and France. The conference was televised live around the world, garnering more than 200 million viewers. Since 2006 Mr. Brown has co-produced numerous Hip Hop music videos, CDs, live shows, street art exhibitions, and biographical documentaries with emerging artists in Mexico City, Culiacán, Tijuana, and Izmir, Turkey. He is now directing global creative teams in Mexico, Pakistan, India, Hungary, and Tajikistan who are using the SalesForce mobile-app development platform, the Adobe Creative Cloud collaborative platform, and the Unity game engine to create innovative distribution channels & business models for interactive-media & social-video producers. In October, 2014 he co-produced the inaugural emergence of the FANtastic Horror Film Festival in San Diego, California. His nine-year sponsorship of Sinaloan media maker Emilio Trelles Aramburo has recently escalated from co-producing indie film shorts & music videos into an explosive creative collaboration resulting in Mr. Arumburo's debut feature film to be released in early 2016. Based in San Diego, California, Mr. Brown is developing an original series with some of Nepal's top filmmakers that will tell the stories of children recovering from the earthquakes of April 25th and May 12th, 2015. He is also working with international screenwriters & creatives to adapt his novel, the Earth Metal Trilogy, into a cinematic universe and global franchise.