With over four decades of professional experience and over 60 screen credits, producer Hawk Koch has built a solid foundation of experience in virtually every aspect of filmmaking art and business.
Koch has produced over 20 films. Among them are Keeping the Faith, Frequency, Losing Isaiah, The Long Walk Home, The Pope of Greenwich Village, Gorky Park and The Idol Maker. As an executive producer, his credits include the phenomenally successful Wayne’s World, Primal Fear, and Heaven Can Wait, for which he won a Golden Globe for Best Picture. Koch most recently executive produced Fracture and is currently an executive producer on Summit’s upcoming Source Code starring Jake Gyllenhaal.
At the start of his career, he was a jack-of-all-trades serving in such capacities as dialogue coach, second unit director and first assistant director, working alongside Sydney Pollack, Alan Pakula, Hal Wallis, William Castle, Roman Polanski, John Schlesinger and Paul Mazursky on such legendary films as Rosemary’s Baby, Bob & Carol and Ted & Alice, Marathon Man, The Way We Were, The Odd Couple, Barefoot in the Park, Parallax View and Chinatown.
Koch also served as the president of Rastar Productions, Inc., where he oversaw the productions of Peggy Sue Got Married, Nothing in Common, and The Secret of My Success, among others.
Koch is the former Vice President of the Producers Guild and currently sits on its Board of Directors. In 2003, Koch was honored with the PGA’s highest award, the Charles B. FitzSimons Award for outstanding service to the Guild. Koch also serves on the Board of Governors for the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences and is currently the Academy's Treasurer.
