Meet Mark Leschinsky

Mark Leschinsky is the Founder & Executive Director of the Student World Impact Film Festival (SWIFF), the first student-run film festival providing a platform for more than 12,156 aspiring filmmakers in 149 countries.

Mark‘s initiative led him to fundraise $198,000 in grants from Google, resulting in the distribution of his self-paced filmmaking curriculum to 476,621 students in 161 countries.

Mark has also become the first-ever youth distribution partner of Amazon Prime Video, in which he successfully distributed a student film from his film festival to 100 million people.