UNIT PUBLICIST ERNIE MALIK
UNIT PUBLICIST ERNIE MALIK
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[Past event - January 29, 2021]
Masterwork: Industry Conversations is a series of live interviews with long-established and award-winning filmmakers with ties to Chicago. Each live interview is followed by a Q&A with the audience. Join us to learn all about these filmmakers’ journeys in the film and television world and their secrets to success.
Chicago-based Ernie Malik is one of the industry’s premier Unit Publicists. When a feature film or series begins production, he is the studio’s marketing rep on the working set, handling media set visits, ad photo shoots, and production of the DVD materials. He also acts as the production’s spokesperson and as ambassador to most set visitors, be it press, dignitaries, or studio executives. At the studio’s direction, he assists in launching the project’s media campaign while filming ensues.
Malik has 80+ on-set publicity credits including the Home Alone trilogy, There's Something About Mary, 12 Monkeys, all three Chronicles of Narnia films, Aquaman, Thor:Ragnarok, A Good Year, Body of Lies, Friday Night Lights, Oz The Great and Powerful, Saving Mr. Banks, 42 and two Oscar-nominated titles – The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile.
In his 46-year industry career, Malik has been recognized by the Publicists Guild of America with a pair of honors — the 1999 Motion Picture Showmanship Award as part of the publicity team on 20th Century Fox's hit comedy, There's Something About Mary; and the PGA’s 2019 Les Mason Award, its highest honor, which recognizes the year's top movie/TV publicist. He received three prior Les Mason nominations (2002, 2017, 2018) along with two additional Showmanship Award nominations for the Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005) and Saving Mr. Banks (2013).
A New Jersey native, Malik has been based in Chicago since 1984. His film assignments have taken him to many corners of the globe, from Hawaii to Hazard; from Chattanooga to the Czech Republic; from New Orleans to New Zealand and the land of L. Frank Baum’s OZ.
Learn more about Ernie Malik and the role of a Unit Publicist in the clip below.
