Mark Gooder began his film career in Australia and New Zealand over 25 years ago. He established Icon Distribution in Sydney in 2000 for Academy-Award winning Producer/Director and Actor Mel Gibson and his producing partner Bruce Davey and re-located to Los Angeles in 2006 to oversee the Icon group of companies. In 2012 he became President of Acquisitions for The Weinstein Company. In 2015 he established the international sales company Cornerstone Films with business partner and former Focus Feature’s International President, Alison Thompson. The company is based in Santa Monica and London.

Cornerstone works with Producers to help develop, finance, and sell films and episodic content to the domestic and international marketplace. German TV and Film Production company, X Filme are a minority shareholder in Cornerstone through their parent company Beta, one of the world’s leading international distributors of TV license rights. Cornerstone is a minority shareholder in The Reset Collective, an Australasian content distribution and production company based in Sydney. Mark is an Executive Producer on over 30 feature films including GOOD LUCK TO YOU, LEO GRANDE from Australian director Sophie Hyde starring Emma Thompson, Kier Roche Turner's horror STING and BEAST OF WAR and Mike Leigh's critically acclaimed HARD TRUTHS.