Veronica Lombardo has launched her own independent sales and rep company, Veronica Lombardo Management (VLM), which handles representation on the West Coast and in Texas for a roster which includes kroma digital cosmetics, Somatic and Delolo. The latter is a video and art-making collective made up of artist/designer Leila Fakouri and actor/writer Will Bowles. Somatic, owned by executive producer Steve Waite and executive creative director James Thayer, is a Los Angeles-based digital studio that applies its signature graphic style to varied disciplines–specializing in integrated motion graphics, live action, VFX and editorial. And kroma is a digital cosmetics company that was founded in 2001 by Bert and Amy Yukich whose work includes commercial collaborations with brands such as Crest, L’Oreal, Tresemme, Candie’s, CoverGirl and Palmolive. Over the past 14 years Lombardo has represented content creators and diverse talent as a below-the-line agent at Partos Company, NYO and Sheldon Prosnit Agency (now known as Represent). In 2008 she broke out on her own, hanging her own shingle, opening 9 Agency….
Juliette Welfling Takes On A Musical, A Crime Thriller, Comedy and Drama In “Emelia Pérez”
Editor Juliette Welfling has a track record of close-knit, heartfelt collaboration with writer-director Jacques Audiard, a four-time BAFTA Award nominee for Best Film not in the English Language--starting with The Beat That My Heart Skipped in 2006, then A Prophet in 2010, Rust and Bone in 2013, and Dheepan in 2017. He won for The Beat That My Heart Skipped and A Prophet.
Welfling cut three of those features: A Prophet, Rust and Bone, and Dheepan. And that shared filmography has since grown to most recently include Emelia Pérez, the Oscar buzz-worthy film from Netflix. Welfling herself is not stranger to Academy Award banter. In fact, she earned a Best Achievement in Film Editing Oscar nomination in 2008 for director Julian Schnabel’s The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.
Emelia Pérez is a hybrid musical/drama/thriller which introduces us to a talented but undervalued lawyer named Rita (portrayed by Zoe Saldana) who receives a lucrative offer out of the blue from a feared drug cartel boss who’s looking to retire from his sordid business and disappear forever by becoming the woman he’s always dreamt of being (Karla Sofía Gascón in a dual role as Manitas Del Monte/Emilia Pérez). Rita helps pull this off, orchestrating the faked death of Del Monte who leaves behind a widow (Jessi, played by Selena Gomez) and kids. While living comfortably and contently in her/their new identity, Pérez misses the children. Pérez once again enlists Rita--this time to return to family life, reuniting with the kids by pretending to be their aunt, the sister of Del Monte. Now as an aunt, Pérez winds up adopting a more altruistic bent professionally,... Read More