Erin Wahed has joined SMUGGLER as director of sales and management on the East Coast, working alongside Trace Henderson. Wahed will also serve in this role for SMUGGLER’S sister company, DIVISION7. She brings broad-based experience to SMUGGLER and DIVISION7. Wahed worked at fashion photography agency Management + Artists producing print campaigns for noted photographers. She continued her career as a project manager at independent design consultancy Pentagram. She later joined RepresentationCo as a talent agent, representing the company’s roster of production companies, editing houses, and experiential/immersive artists, connecting them with leading advertising agencies. Wahed then launched Favorite Child under RepresentationCo, a curated roster to speak to the ongoing creative evolution in the advertising industry….
Picture North, which provides ideation, production and postproduction solutions for advertising agencies, record labels and direct clients, has signed indie firm DeVine Reps to handle exclusive representation on the West Coast……
Four DPs have joined Innovative Artists for narrative and commercial representation: Robert E. Arnold, Eric Branco, Thomas Scott Stanton, and Todd Dos Reis. The latter’s projects include Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Longmire and Entourage. Arnold has worked with such brands as adidas and Dodge. Branco served as cinematographer on Clemency, this year’s Grand Prize Jury winner at the Sundance Film Festival. And Stanton has shot for brands including Carthartt, Landrover, the NFL and Disney…….
SCHROM x Yacht Club and Be Electric Studios Launch Electric XR for Virtual Production
SCHROM x Yacht Club, a full-service live-action, tabletop, and postproduction company, has teamed with Be Electric Studios, a soundstage, equipment rental, and virtual production company, to launch Electric XR, a virtual production collective.
Industry veteran Thomas Rossano will lead the new venture, which provides advanced virtual production solutions across multiple facilities. He brings over 25 years of experience in live-action, tabletop, postproduction and talent curation to enhance Electric XR’s offerings as a resource for brands and agencies, as well as other production companies in need of virtual production solutions. Additionally Rossano continues to serve as EP at XR New York (XR-NY), a role he’s held since December 2022. SCHROM x Yacht Club originally established XR-NY to help provide XR services for third-party rentals. While XR-NY will continue to function independently for SCHROM X Yacht Club, it now operates under the Electric XR umbrella.
Rossano’s expertise spans producing live-action commercials, branded content, interactive and experiential content. In addition to leading Electric XR, he holds responsibilities at SCHROM x Yacht Club which include driving business development, collaborating with sales reps and expanding the company’s creative talent network. Rossano’s career includes serving as an exec producer at Hungry Man for about 11 years, right from that company’s inception. He then went on to become a partner at Station Film where he also had a lengthy tenure. Later he was a partner at PRISM. Then after the pandemic hit, he became a freelance EP for nearly two years, looking into opportunities in virtual production, which led him to XR NY and now Electric XR. Over the years, he has produced high-profile... Read More