Free Agents
1) How long have your been an independent rep? Please list the companies that you currently represent:
I made the move from producing at an animation production company to independent representation 14 years ago and am currently representing: Aspekt, Buck, Gentleman Scholar, GenPop, Hornet, Mill+, Moonbot, Nexus, Nexus Interactive Arts, Passion Pictures and Strange Beast
2) Please define your responsibilities as a rep and how they have evolved over the years.
Our role as an independent rep is twofold. We help build brands and create opportunities through strategic marketing and sales initiatives that constantly change based on each client’s work and talent. Meanwhile, our focus on original animation, artful live action and creative digital has allowed us to become a resource to our advertising agency clients. Through the years we’ve had the opportunity to work with amazing production companies looking to expand their reach into the advertising community and are always revisiting the best and most effective way to both build and share their stories. Technology has enabled us to find new exciting ways of working, but the challenge is to not overwhelm nor allow it to become a distraction.
3) How has your marketplace expanded with the advent of longer form branded content and varied platforms? While agency creatives and producers remain prime contacts, have you extended your reach to clients, smaller boutique specialty ad/marketing/digital shops, entertainment cos., etc.?
Our marketplace truly follows the evolving demands of the advertising and production communities.
Advertisers are asking more boutique / digital shops to handle specific assignments and are also creating in-house marketing teams. Yet many of our existing contacts, both creatives and producers, are moving within these shops and after years of working together we are continuing to make it effortless for them to engage with our talent. Some of our more recent inspiring work is either longer format or cross platform. The combination of our directors and artists being drawn to innovation, along with these close relationships, allow us to continue to deliver the best creative opportunities and stay on top of the ever expanding marketplace.
5) What are the advantages of being an independent rep? The drawbacks?
The reason I’m an independent rep is because it allows me to work with the friends who we admire and respect most.
Life is short. Surround yourself with amazing people and you will enjoy every minute!
Alec Baldwin Urges Judge To Stand By Dismissal Of Involuntary Manslaughter Case In “Rust” Shooting
Alec Baldwin urged a New Mexico judge on Friday to stand by her decision to skuttle his trial and dismiss an involuntary manslaughter charge against the actor in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the set of a Western movie.
State District Court Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer dismissed the case against Baldwin halfway through a trial in July based on the withholding of evidence by police and prosecutors from the defense in the 2021 shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the film "Rust."
The charge against Baldwin was dismissed with prejudice, meaning it can't be revived once any appeals of the decision are exhausted.
Special prosecutor Kari Morrissey recently asked the judge to reconsider, arguing that there were insufficient facts and that Baldwin's due process rights had not been violated.
Baldwin, the lead actor and co-producer on "Rust," was pointing a gun at cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during a rehearsal when it went off, killing her and wounding director Joel Souza. Baldwin has said he pulled back the hammer — but not the trigger — and the revolver fired.
The case-ending evidence was ammunition that was brought into the sheriff's office in March by a man who said it could be related to Hutchins' killing. Prosecutors said they deemed the ammunition unrelated and unimportant, while Baldwin's lawyers alleged that they "buried" it and filed a successful motion to dismiss the case.
In her decision to dismiss the Baldwin case, Marlowe Sommer described "egregious discovery violations constituting misconduct" by law enforcement and prosecutors, as well as false testimony about physical evidence by a witness during the trial.
Defense counsel says that prosecutors tried to establish a link... Read More