Barry Poltermann is the CEO of AboutFace Media, which he co-founded in 2007.

Before founding AboutFace, Barry was a founder of the digital production company L’Orange Studios, which produced new media marketing projects for clients such as Disney (Movies.com), Activision (the Gun videogame) and Microsoft (the X-Box 360 game console and MSN Search).

In 1999 Barry founded and was the CEO of the Internet-based film financing company Civilian Pictures (Los Angeles). Civilian Pictures financed such acclaimed independent documentaries as the Wu-Tang-Clan profile “Rock the Bells” (2006, Warner Brothers), “American Movie” (1999, Grand Jury Prize-Sundance Film Festival, Sony Pictures Classics) and “The Life of Reilly”, one of the most widely praised theatrical releases of 2007.

Barry also edited “American Movie”; directed and edited “The Life of Reilly”; and edited both “The Pool” (2007 Special Jury Prize-Sundance Film Festival) and “Collapse” (2009) for director Chris Smith.

Prior to working in independent film and new media, he founded and was president of Purple Onion Productions, a commercial film and video production company, and directed television commercials for Superior Street Productions (Chicago), and Neue Sentimental Films (Los Angeles). He has directed national campaigns for advertising agencies such as DDB Needham, Leo Burnett and JWT, and for brands such as Coca Cola, Ford Motors, All-State Insurance, McDonalds and AT&T.

As the CEO of Civilian Pictures his frequent media appearances included Fortune Magazine, Newsweek, Money Magazine, Barron’s, and NPR’s On the Media, The Motley Fool Radio Show and Marketplace. He has also been a guest on film financing panels at numerous film festivals, including Cannes and SXSW.