IndyMuse | Managing Partners | Independent Films

Managing Partners: Jacques Habra

Advisory Board: Laurence Rosenthal | Mark Andrews

Managing Partners

Mark Andrews launched his career in the United Kingdom Financial Services Industry as a risk analyst before becoming a management information consultant where he was involved in a variety of fields from statistical analysis and marketing to product design, implementation and training.

In 1992, Mark began working on short films to improve his knowledge base until in 1994 he formed his own production company Cobra Media Productions and Executive Produced his first feature film ‘MAINLINE RUN’ starring Hugo Speer from ‘The Full Monty’. Over the next few years Mark was instrumental in the financing and producing of two further feature films ‘DISTANT SHADOW’ and ‘REDEMPTION ROAD’, until in 2002 Mark took a hiatus from producing to form a film financing Tax Fund called Studio Finance to raise £15m for the production and acquisition of British Qualifying films. Studio Finance was a Tax Shelter utilizing U.K. Tax legislation passed by the British Government in 1998 to promote growth in the U.K. film industry.

In 2003 he began consulting for another film fund, UKFS partly owned by Channel House Trustees with more than £1.5 billion in client asset’s and who were responsible during 2003/4 for $340 million of tax shelter funding via Limited liability Film Partnerships. In 2004 Mark came to the United States to work with a number of producing partners on the financing of their movies and was fortunate to witness the United States Government pass the Job Creations Act of which section 181 (1)(a), was a lifeline to the Independent Film Industry. Realizing the implications of this legislation and using his past experience, Mark began formulating a business model that would benefit Members and filmmakers alike.

Today, Mark Andrews advises upon the IndyMuse business model and consults on development of the company’s investments.