Glenn Angelo Aveni has been involved with the entertainment business for over 28 years. A Milwaukee native Glenn relocated to Los Angeles California in 1986 to seek opportunities in Hollywood. Upon arrival, Glenn landed a position at Paragon Arts International as a key sales executive, thereby starting a long career in Hollywood whereby Glenn is still producing high quality award winning media content. Paragon produced the highly acclaimed cult classic “Witchboard” with over $20,000,000 in worldwide grosses on a budget of $1,500,000.
Subsequent to Paragon, Glenn moved into worldwide distribution as a means of creating direct revenue streams on produced product. Box Office Partners co-financed and distributed eight small budget feature films (1 mil – 2mil) that generated over $25,000,000 worldwide.
In 1992, Glenn co-founded Ulysses Entertainment as a production and foreign sales company that produced and distributed independent feature films with major partners such as Miramax and Samuel Goldwyn Company. Ulysses financed and produced eight pictures totaling approximately $55,000,000 in worldwide revenues. The films were purchased outright by Orion Pictures in 1995 and now reside in the prestigious MGM/SONY film library.
In 1995 Glenn moved into television production and distribution while managing the worldwide distribution division of Associated Television International. Glenn developed and executive produced over 150 hours of primetime television including “Ponderosa” (NBC/Pax), “Lords of the Mafia” (PBS), “The Secret KGB Files” (TNT), “World Magic Awards” (ABC Family), “Heroes Of WWII” (PBS), and “The Spirit Of Diana” (ABC) to name a few.
In 2003 Glenn founded Icon Television Music, Inc. as a music and documentary production, marketing, and distribution company that has secured worldwide distribution rights to major music projects including “Beyonce’ Knowles Live”, “Gloria Estefan Unwrapped”, “John Entwistle; An Ox’s Tale”, “Les Paul: Chasing Sound”, “Musica Cubana”, “Us Festival 1983”, “Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out”, “Rock Relief”, “The Rise & Fall Of The Clash”, “US Festival 1982: The US Generation ” and “The Arif Mardin Story” (Grammy Award nominee). Icon has produced major multi-award wining doc films such as “Les Paul Chasing Sound”(Ascap Deems Taylor Award), and “the recent global theatrically released “Bhutto” (Peabody Award) a official selection in the doc completion at 2010 Sundance Film Festival. Icon has also entered the television series production and distribution arena with reality auction series “Bid America”, children’s wildlife series “Uncaged” and reality auction series “Million Dollar Auctions”. These productions fall in line with Icon’s business plan to produce and distribute A-list high quality programming for a diversified worldwide marketplace across all platforms.
Bhutto – PEABODY Award – “Independent Lens”
Bhutto – IDA ABC VIDEO SOURCE Award “Best Use Of Archival Footage”
Bhutto – SONOMA Film Festival “Special Jury Award for Best Documentary”
Bhutto – EPIC Award White House Project – Outstanding Women & Human Rights
Bhutto – RHODE ISLAND Film Festival Winner “Best Documentary”
Bhutto – EMMY™ Nomination “Best Use Of Archival Footage”
Les Paul – EMMY™ Nomination “Sound Design”
Les Paul – ASACAP DEEMS TAYLOR Award “Best Music Documentary”
Les Paul – PARK CITY MUSIC FESTIVAL Award “Best Documentary”
Les Paul – CHICAGO FILM FESTIVAL “Silver Hugo Award”
Les Paul – CINE GOLDEN EAGLE Award
Les Paul – SILVER TELLY Award
MILLION DOLLAR AUCTIONS – 13 Part Series (2013) A & E Networks
Dan Morphy, Serena Myers Director/Exec. Producer
THE US GENERATION (2013) In Post-Production
Mick Fleetwood, Stewart Copeland, Steve Wozniak Director/ Exec. Producer.
BID AMERICA! – 17 Part Series (2012 – 2013) Mav TV/ PBS/HULU
Bob Evans, Woody Woodrum, Desmond Director/Exec. Producer
THE RISE & FALL OF THE CLASH (2012) VH1/Shout Factory
Mick Jones, Joe Strummer, Paul Simonen, T. Headon Executive Producer
US FESTIVAL 1983 Days 1 – 3 (2010) VH1/Music Video Distributors
U2, The Clash, Stevie Nicks, INXS Director/ Executive Producer
UNCAGED – 26 Part Series (2010 – 2014) Discovery Channel/Nat. Geo.
Antarctica, Galapagos Islands, Nepal, Rwanda Executive Producer
BHUTTO (2008 – 2009) First Run Features/PBS
Benazir Bhutto, Condoleezza Rice, Arianna Huffington Executive Producer
THE BROTHERS WARNER (2008) Warner Home Video/TNT/PBS
Harry, Jack, Sam, & Abe Warner Production Consultant
LES PAUL: CHASING SOUND (2007) PBS American Masters/BBC/E1 Ent.
Les Paul, Paul McCartney, Keith Richards, BB King Executive Producer
ROCK RELIEF [aka Musicians 4 Disaster Relief] (2006) Music Video Distributors
Loverboy, Rick Derringer, Eddie Money, Dickey Betts Director/Executive Producer
JOHN ENTWISTLE: AN OX’S TALE (2005) VH1/Ovation Network/Image Ent.
Pete Townshend, J. Entwistle, Keith Moon, R. Daltrey Director/Executive Producer
PONDEROSA – 13 Part Series (2003) NBC/Pax Network
Daniel Hugh Kelley, Brad Dourif Executive Producer (select epsidoes)
THE SPIRIT OF DIANA (2001) ABC Network
Princess Diana Executive Producer
THE SECRET KGB FILES (2000) TNT Network
Roger Moore Executive Producer
KILLER INSTINCT – 58 Part Series (1998 – 2000) Discovery Channel
Rob Bredl – “The Barefoot Bushman” Executive Producer
WORLD MAGIC AWARDS (1999) ABC Family Channel
Lance Burton, The Amazing Jonathan Executive Producer
LORDS OF THE MAFIA – 13 Part Series (1998) PBS
Robert Stack Executive Producer
THE NIGHT & THE MOMENT (1995) Miramax Pictures
Willem Dafoe, Lena Olin Executive Producer
GETTING IN (1995) MGM/HBO
Andrew McCarthy, Kristy Swanson Executive Producer
FLINCH (1994) New Line Cinema
Judd Nelson, Gina Gershon Executive Producer
TREACHEROUS (1993) Skouras Pictures
C. Thomas Howell, Adam Baldwin, Tia Carrere Executive Producer
WHERE THE RIVERS FLOW NORTH (1992) HBO
Michael J. Fox, Rip Torn Executive Producer
WITCHBOARD (1986) Cinemagroup/Sam Goldwyn Co.
Tawny Kitaen, Todd Allen, Stephen Nicols Finance Sales Associate
