Boutique postproduction company has brought Julie Collins aboard as executive producer. As an agency producer, Collins has worked across a range of mediums and platforms from epic TV spots to branded content and short form social media. She has built an portfolio of clients, including Meta, AT&T, MasterCard, L’Oreal, Coca-Cola, Verizon, J&J and Wendy’s.
Following a decade-long tenure at McCann’s production department, Collins went on to join BBDO as a senior producer, where she was soon recruited to run one of the largest accounts within BBDO North America for AT&T. Promoted to group executive producer on the account, Collins was responsible for leading her team in all aspects of managing and cultivating AT&T’s content departments in New York, Los Angeles and Dallas. Under her tutelage, guidance and mentoring, Collins’ teams have produced award-winning and culturally impactful fully integrated 360 campaigns that have gained tens of millions of views and impressions.
With an in-depth understanding of agency creative, production, edit, post and VFX, Collins has cultivated hundreds of longstanding relationships within the agency and production community during the course of her career. Committed to helping brands and creatives execute their vision and brand goals, Collins will manage WAX’s integrated VFX, telecine/finishing and live-action production.
Collins said, “I’ve always loved the postproduction process where literally anything is possible. Crafted storytelling is really an art and I have been lucky to work with some incredible editors during my career. As a producer you get a fast education on how critical the editor is to the process. Toni [Lipari, founder of WAX] had a vision early on for WAX and she has not wavered from that vision! All of the staff editors, producers, VFX designers, have an incredible sense of responsibility to deliver the best creative work to clients.”
Maggie Smith, Star of Stage, Film and “Downton Abbey,” Dies At 89
Maggie Smith, the masterful, scene-stealing actor who won an Oscar for "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" in 1969 and gained new fans in the 21st century as the dowager Countess of Grantham in "Downton Abbey" and Professor Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter films, died Friday. She was 89. Smith's sons, Chris Larkin and Toby Stephens, said in a statement that Smith died early Friday in a London hospital. "She leaves two sons and five loving grandchildren who are devastated by the loss of their extraordinary mother and grandmother," they said in a statement issued through publicist Clair Dobbs. Smith was frequently rated the preeminent British female performer of a generation that included Vanessa Redgrave and Judi Dench, with a clutch of Academy Award nominations and a shelf full of acting trophies. She remained in demand even in her later years, despite her lament that "when you get into the granny era, you're lucky to get anything." Smith drily summarized her later roles as "a gallery of grotesques," including Professor McGonagall. Asked why she took the role, she quipped: "Harry Potter is my pension." Richard Eyre, who directed Smith in a television production of "Suddenly Last Summer," said she was "intellectually the smartest actress I've ever worked with. You have to get up very, very early in the morning to outwit Maggie Smith." "Jean Brodie," in which she played a dangerously charismatic Edinburgh schoolteacher, brought her the Academy Award for best actress, and the British Academy Film Award (BAFTA) as well in 1969. Smith added a supporting actress Oscar for "California Suite" in 1978, Golden Globes for "California Suite" and "Room with a View," and BAFTAs for lead actress in "A Private Function" in 1984, "A Room with a View" in... Read More