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Although based in Broomfield, Corlorado (near Boulder) we provide our creative services to businesses and entrepreneurs all over the world - as far away as Australia! All professional creative team members embrace the values of honesty, integrity and excellence. We personalize our services to meet our clients' needs and are committed to offering affordable rates while meeting budgets for a broad range of business sizes. Mark McGinnis, CEO of Avenstar Productions McGinnis has been a director from a young age, even before he started yielding a camera. His creativity and leadership abilities lead him to running his own building in the Los Angeles area where he was responsible for multi-million dollar budgets and implementing international strategic plans. Wanting to expand his horizons, while exhibiting more creative control, he left his prestigious Fortune 500 position and founded the Hollywood-based advertising agency, WGD-Media, Inc. While breaking ground in his own business, he began to develop relationships with other creative talents in LA and as far as away as Australia and China. This fueled McGinnis' passion and soon his vision took him to another level when he was inspired to create a separate company, Creativations, which introduced this maverick to the business of manufacturing. McGinnis' bold endeavor into the competitive field of manufacturing was responsible for bringing the world the first moving and glowing electronic fireflies. This unique product caught the attention and the hearts of the nation and made McGinnis realize just how fulfilling it was to capture the imaginations of the public by presenting them with a glimmer of magic. Articles about McGinnis' success and ingenuity have appeared in major publications such as Los Angeles Magazine as well as the front page of the business section of the Daily News in Los Angeles. McGinnis' advertising agency grew, as did his reputation for cultivating inspired ideas and bringing them to fruition. As he continued to catch the attention of others that value vision and creativity, WGD-Media morphed into Avenstar Productions and after a couple of years he moved his growing company near the Boulder Colorado area. With the move and the name change McGinnis continues on his mission to respect his vision and ideas and take action, using his whatever it takes philosophy to bring form to his creativity. After dozens of successful broadcast television spots and national infomercials, Mark McGinnis is finally able to direct his first feature film, and he now he feels like he is home and in his element. McGinnis is a hands-on director whose passion for what he does is made evident by his uncompromising attention to detail. He considers his vision to be a gift from a higher realm and his mission today, as it was in the beginning, is to bring that vision to life in the purest way possible. Kim McGinnis, VP of Avenstar Productions Kim began her career in Los Angeles, California as an actress and a writer. After doing a string equity waver productions she landed an agent with the prestigious Irv Schechter Agency in Beverly Hills, CA. But after appearing in various movies and national TV commercials, Kim felt the tug to go back to her first love, the stage. This time she went to the stage with her own story. Like most of us, Kim's early life wasn't ideal. But instead of penning her tragic life in a dramatic way, she wrote of her past as a misunderstood outcast, and delivered it as a comedy. The one-woman show was met with accolades (and laughs), and offers to take it on the road. But after this rewarding and cathartic experience Kim decided to go back to school and work toward getting her Masters Degree in Psychology. After years of study and intern positions at Northern AZ University, UC Berkeley, and Cal State Northridge, Kim caught the entrepreneurial bug. She fled academia without the coveted diploma, and never looked back. A series of synchronistic events led Kim to meet Mark McGinnis, who at the time had recently launched his manufacturing business and was selling electronic fireflies. Kim invested in the business (and in Mark) and the two soon became partners and in business and in life. Today Kim is Vice President in charge of Sales and Marketing at Avenstar Productions. She is also an expert in the field of Search Engine Optimization (SEO), and writer of content for their 6 successful websites (including 3 blogs). She is also responsible for exponentially increasing the traffic of her clients' websites through the use of SEO and social media. In addition Kim has written a popular e-book, The Passive Income Mind-Frame and written hundreds of articles that have been published thousands of times all over the world on the topics of spirituality, self-improvement, online marketing, and entrepreneurship. She has been asked to contribute guest posts on other high ranking blogs and been asked to contribute chapters in two books, most recently, The DNA of Success, How to Maximize Success in Your Life. She co-wrote this book with 12 other prolific authors, including Brian Tracy, Mark McGinnis and Jack Canfield. Today she is thrilled to be producing and casting her first feature film, Shamshara. It never would have been possible by making safe choices. She believes thinking and analyzing too much get most of us in trouble. As Kim puts it “Passion mixed with calculated risk is necessary if you want to experience out-of-the-ordinary results.” She didn't know it at the time but Kim was born to be a risk-taker, to take the road where your heart leads you, even though the potholes are staring you in the face. Two of her greatest thrills thus far were having the opportunity to work with directors Bob Giraldi and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, but these experiences never defined success for Kim. Through this crazy adventure Kim McGinnis has learned the true key to success: never stop following your heart and don't take it all so seriously.Mark and Kim have also developed and maintain their own highly successful ecommerce site www.aZenGift.com. Want to talk to Mark or Kim about what they're up to? Then jump over to the Contact Us page. Want information on some of our other services? Just click on one of the links below: Return from About Us to the Avenstar home page.
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Avenstar Productions is a highly unique Colorado media botique. With projects ranging from feature length films and video productions to a wide variety of interactive marketing initiatives. Avenstar is devoted to providing customer satisfaction through
a variety of video, film and web marketing services, reliable SEO
services and web development services - all supported by creative thinking and innovative technology.
