Speaker Details

Full Name
Schuyler Weiss
Company
Bazmark
Title
Producer, Managing Director
Country (Address)
Australia
Biography
Schuyler Weiss is an Academy Award nominated producer based in the Gold Coast, Australia and New York. He has worked with Baz Luhrmann’s production company, Bazmark, since 2005 and currently serves as Managing Director and producing partner to Luhrmann and his creative partner Catherine Martin. In addition to producing Luhrmann’s latest epic feature Elvis, which recently garnered eight Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Weiss also executive produced the long-anticipated re-mounting of Luhrmann’s Australia as a limited series for Hulu and Disney+, titled Faraway Downs.

Outside of his work at Bazmark, Weiss is currently producing the feature film How To Make Gravy, based on Paul Kelly’s iconic song.

In the US, Weiss co-founded New York-based Tandem Pictures in 2010, which he built into a successful film and commercial production company and sold in 2016. He has produced numerous independent films, including three features selected for the Sundance Film Festival.

Weiss’s work in entertainment spans film, TV, commercials, live events, VR and even co-writing a song with Elton John.