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Kent Speakman is an actor, film maker as well as award-winning online strategist, social media consultant, blogger, and speaker.

At a very young age Kent Speakman knew he had a future in the entertainment industry. After completing the Television and Radio Communications program while in High School and receiving government grants for the nations first test program, he had found his passion.

In 1998 Kent Speakman started working as an Associate Producer on a comedy series for Canadian series called “How Bout Not’ while attending Northern Alberta Institute of Technology – Marketing and Communications program. From there he had the chance to work on and off as a consultant for Independent films such as “Halo” and “Boxing with God”.

In 2002 he created Speakman Entertainment and Executive Produced a self help dating advice video series “Girls Give It Up” which was distributed across North America. Speakman oversaw and managed the online marketing initiatives for the series as well as cutting his teeth as an EP.

Kent had the opportunity to be both behind and in front of the camera - co-hosting an entertainment segment for “Eye on Entertainment”, acting in Films “the Service – 2009”, “Collective – 2009” and “the Cabin – 2010″ as well as being a spokesperson for the non-profits Africa We Care and Project Smile.

Kent has a wide network of friends and industry contacts around the world, and has put together a variety of film deals across South East Asia, USA and in his home country Canada. Kent’s strength lies in putting the right teams together to make things happen, connecting the dots to take projects from concept to screen and ensuring that all marketing opportunities fully exploited on and offline for his projects.

His prior experience as the VP of an interactive advertising agency included overseeing a wide range of projects in the entertainment industry and he has built a strong foundation of knowledge for online and interactive trends. He brings promotion & marketing experience in the Entertainment industry: Setting up media campaigns, creating search and display campaigns. Overseeing the creation of IA – wireframes and creative platforms for projects, E-commerce, content, and all legalities involved with projects.

Kent is an award-winning online strategist, social media consultant, blogger, and speaker. He still actively consults and works closely with the international digital agency Rare Method. Speakman Entertainment currently has over a dozen projects the team is actively working on.

In 2009 Speakman competed in a presentation for television marketing at the iMedia Entertainment Marketing Summit in Los Angeles. Disney, Showtime and the Hallmark Channel awarded him with the winning presentation in front of 160 studio and network executives.