Dea Shandera-Hunter, President of Entertainment, Marketing, and Communications (Los Angeles, CA USA)

Dea Shandera-Hunter is a highly regarded and seasoned media and entertainment creative executive having served tenures over twenty years at Paramount Pictures, The Walt Disney Company/The Disney Channel and MGM with her most recent post being Executive Vice President of Worldwide Marketing for MGM Television. She has a reputation for being an out-of-the-box thinker with a unique approach that has made a significant difference for the companies and individuals with whom she has worked. Since leaving the studios, Dea has consulted in every area of the communications and entertainment businesses from publicity to production through distribution for books, products, films, and television. Some of her global clients have included, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, MGM, Trifecta Entertainment and Media, Universal Music, Abrams Books, Waterside Productions, Hansa Productions, Gener8Xion Entertainment, Rocky Mountain Pictures, Regent Releasing, Drama House Productions, Off the Pier Productions, One08 and authors Neale Donald Walsch, James Redfield, William Gladstone, Ervin Laszlo, Michael Beckwith, Chris and Janet Attwood, Michel Pascal, Patricia Cori, Kim Cantin, Tom Lane, Jane Gehr/Kaliyani, Mike Anthony, David Parker, Terry Jastrow, Arjuna Ardagh, Temple Hayes, Dr. Sylva Dvorak, and Robert Clancy. Dea has conceived and produced many projects for Disney including the environmental special Earth Day at Walt Disney World starring Ed Begley, Jr., Dana Delany, John Travolta, Anne Archer, Martin Sheen, Al Gore, Ted Danson, Kristie Alley, Chevy Chase, Mary Steenburgen, Matthew Modine, Steve Guttenberg, Rhea Pearlman, Emilio Estevez, Shaquille O’Neal , Harry Anderson, Zachery Ty Bryan, Roy Disney, Ross Malinger, Bill Nye The Science Guy, Joan Lunden, Ben Savage, Rider Strong, Patricia Richardson, Jay Thomas, The Rembrandts, All For One, Taran Noah Smith, and others. Dea executive produced or produced 100 Years (award-winning feature documentary), Bass Clef Bliss (performance-based documentary), and S.S. United States: Lady in Waiting (documentary special for PBS). Upcoming films are iRemember, Wings to Fly, Merry Jane, A Gift Most Rare, and others. Dea has chosen the projects she works on based on whether they make the world a better place (one way or another). The World Community Network initiative is her shared vision with her beloved husband Brent, and she looks forward to improving life on this planet for all of humanity and earth itself.