Former photographer turned producer who teamed up with Icelander Sigurjon 'Joni' Sighvatsson to found Propaganda Films, a small independent firm which gained a comfortable foothold in the entertainment industry by producing music videos and video-style commercials for TV. By 1990 Propaganda was producing about one out of every three music videos made in the United States, yielding revenues of about $20 million a year for the company. Golin and Sighvatsson played a key role in making stars of rock acts like Guns'n'Roses and have been much in demand by everyone from Bruce Springsteen to Prince.G
Met Sigurjon 'Joni' Sighvatsson while studying at the AFI
1981
Produced "The Penny Elf", starring Christopher Lloyd, while at the AFI
1983
Served as line producer for the feature film, "Nickel Mountain" (on which Sighvatsson also worked)
Worked as an associate producer (along with Sighvatsson) on two low-budget features for the Patel/Shah Film Group, "Hard Rock Zombies" (1983) and "American Drive-In" (1985)
