Visual effects, animation, and finishing post house SHIPPING + HANDLING has enlisted New York-based talent management company Sarah Jenks Repping to handle its commercial representation on the East Coast. Jenks signs on following VFX creative director Jerry Spivack’s recently joining the SHIPPING + HANDLING team. SHIPPING + HANDLING comes aboard a Sarah Jenks Repping roster that includes Collective New York, Homestead, The Bridge Co., Zuma4 Productions, and Corra Films and directors such as Silverio Canto, Bad Hombres, Alexander Haines, and Steve Green. SHIPPING + HANDLING’s recent projects include ad work for Oakley Prizm, Green Day’s “Father of All…” music video, and Oscar-winning director Errol Morris’ new docu-film American Dharma. Rounding out its sales force, SHIPPING + HANDLING is also repped by Hustle on the West Coast and in Texas….
Los Angeles-based production studio Stept has signed Ezra Burke and Shane Harris of Content Chemics to handle representation on the West Coast. Stept’s integrated creative, production and post departments now house over 30 team members and have most recently delivered work for Oakley, GEICO, Under Armour, Adidas and The North Face…..
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 XRโs 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 heโs 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.
Rossanoโs 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 companyโs creative talent network. Rossanoโs career includes serving as an exec producer at Hungry Man for about 11 years, right from that companyโs 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