Sundance Award winning producer, Patrick Cunningham left the investment industry to work in the advertising industry.  That brief stop on Madison Avenue led Cunningham to discover the world of entertainment.  Starting as a casting director, Cunningham worked on about 40 movies before becoming an independent film producer.  Cunningham’s early producing credits include The Woman In The Moon starring Maria DeMedieros and Portia DeRossi, Never Met Picasso starring Margot Kidder and Alexis Arquette, and the documentary Art City, which features contemporary artists in their work environments.

Cunningham has conducted seminars worldwide in countries as diverse as Russia and Jamaica.  As a consultant, he was instrumental in the $300 million purchase of Live Entertainment (then Artisan Entertainment). Cunningham and his business partner, Chris Maybach, have made Paramount Pictures their home base for the past ten years.  Cunningham is a recipient of a grant from the National Endowment of the Arts, and has won over a dozen grand prize awards in countries like Japan, Spain, Germany, the U.S., and more.  His company Maybach Cunningham has two features in pre-production and three currently in development.