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Austin Barker
EVP, Creative Content
Universal Pictures

LOS ANGELES, USA // Austin Barker has worked on the campaigns for over 250 film titles. Barker began his post-college life hopping around The Heartland as a broadcast news reporter at NBC affiliates. After a few years he packed his car, headed to Hollywood and learned the ropes with jobs at The Roseanne Show, Disney, and Miramax before finally finding his forever(?) home at Universal Pictures in 2000.

Barker has been awarded Key Art and CLIO awards on more than a dozen titles and has most recently been dabbling and experimenting in the 360 and VR world, most prominently The Mummy Zero Gravity VR Experience, Jurassic World: BLUE, and a custom music video featuring Waterloo from Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again.