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.”
First-Time Feature Directors Make Major Splash At AFI Fest, Generate Oscar Buzz
Two first-time feature directors who are generating Oscar buzz this awards season were front and center this past weekend at AFI Fest in Hollywood. Rachel Morrison, who made history as the first woman nominated for a Best Cinematography Oscar---on the strength of Mudbound in 2018--brought her feature directorial debut, The Fire Inside (Amazon MGM Studios), to the festival on Sunday (10/27), and shared insights into the film during a conversation session immediately following the screening. This came a day after William Goldenberg, an Oscar-winning editor for Argo in 2013, had his initial foray into feature directing, Unstoppable (Amazon MGM Studios), showcased at the AFI proceedings. He too spoke after the screening during a panel discussion. The Fire Inside--which made its world premiere at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival--tells the story of Claressa “T-Rex” Shields (portrayed by Ryan Destiny), a Black boxer from Flint, Mich., who trained to become the first woman in U.S. history to win an Olympic Gold Medal in the sport. She achieved this feat--with the help of coach Jason Crutchfield (Brian Tyree Henry)--only to find that her victory at the Summer Games came with relatively little fanfare and no endorsement deals. So much for the hope that the historic accomplishment would be a ticket out of socioeconomic purgatory for Shields and her family. It seemed like yet another setback in a cycle of adversity throughout Shields’ life but she persevered, going on to win her second Gold Medal at the next Olympics and becoming a champion for gender equality and equitable pay for women in sports. Shields has served as a source of inspiration for woman athletes worldwide--as well as to the community of... Read More