Biography
Luke Parker Bowles is the CEO of Cinema Lab, a U.S movie theatre development and management company, where they believe the theatrical experience is important, purely because it is the best way to share movies and creates a sense of community and empathy. To that end, they are opening community-based, technology-forward, ecologically-conscious movie theaters that lead the way in hospitality, programming, presentation, design and cater our guests with expanded hot and cold menu options and adult beverages.
Mr. Parker Bowles also serves as CEO of Odd Sausage LLC - a New York-based Film, Television and Digital video production company.
He previously held the position of President at Story Mining & Supply Co., a California-based production company committed to acquiring, developing, financing and producing multi-platform premium content through unique access to quality material. SMS combines deep financial resources, strong creative relationships and an executive team that has produced award-winning and commercially successful films. Some productions include Showtime's OUTLANDER series, EVERY BREATH YOU TAKE starring Casey Affleck and THE YELLOW BIRDS starring Jennifer Aniston and Toni Collette.
Previously he acted as Executive Vice President of Production for Open Road Integrated Media, a digital publisher and multimedia content company. Open Road publishes and markets eBooks from authors including Pat Conroy, William Styron, Alice Walker, James Jones, and Pearl S. Buck. At Open Road, he created and oversaw the Digital Entertainment division, which created short-form documentary film pieces around its authors in order to market their eBooks. This also required overseeing and managing a worldwide team of Filmmakers, Producers, Cinematographers and Crews.
Hailing from London, Parker Bowles began his film-industry career at International Creative Management (ICM) London in 1999, then moving to Working Title Films' creative department in 2001. There, he was involved in the development of hit films such as Chris and Paul Weitz's ABOUT A BOY, Beeban Kidron's BRIDGET JONES: THE EDGE OF REASON, Joe Wright's PRIDE & PREJUDICE and ATONEMENT, Shekhar Kapur's ELIZABETH: THE GOLDEN AGE, and Richard Curtis's LOVE ACTUALLY.
He served as Chairman of BAFTA in New York from 2015 - 2018 and is a Director and Founder of the Queen Elizabeth II Garden in New York and The Montclair Film Festival. Parker Bowles was awarded the inaugural Leadership Award by the St. George's Society in 2017 for his work in bringing Brits and Americans closer together and for his work with non-profits, including Comic Relief, of which he is a Senior Ambassador. In addition to attending the University of London, he studied at Yale University and Carnegie Mellon University.
