Stephanie Sharis

Stephanie Sharis is Executive Vice President at SnagFilms, which has its beta launch in July 2008. Previously, she worked at AOL as Director of Creative Development where she developed original programming and managed AOL True Stories, a broadband channel for documentaries. Before joining AOL, Ms. Sharis co-founded and served as Co-President of Transmission Films, an online distributor of independent and foreign films. Sharis has also worked as a project consultant for New York Office, Walden Media, Content Film, Urbanworld Films, JP Morgan and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. In addition to working on the business side of new media and entertainment, Sharis has also produced films: she co-produced THE PROMISE, a short film starring Saundra Santiago and Kevin Conway, MUSIC INN, a documentary which premiered at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival, and THE PARTY’S OVER, a feature documentary starring Philip Seymour Hoffman that was released in theaters internationally and aired on the BBC. Sharis graduated from Wesleyan University in 1994 and received her graduate degree from Harvard University in 1999.