Production company Ruckus Films has secured talent agency Hustle to handle representation on the East Coast. Hustle is headed by founding partner and rep Anya Zander who has a track record with director JJ Adler, co-founder of Ruckus. Early on in their careers, Zander helped Adler connect with clients and creatives whom the director said remain among her favorite collaborators to this day. Hustle will rep Adler and the full Ruckus directorial roster which is known for comedic visual storytelling, turning out work for such brands as AT&T, Progressive, Mercedes-Benz and Bank of America….
Indie reps Bobby Rowe and Sabrina Mehar have formalized their longtime close professional and personal relationship into a new repping company named THICK and THIN. Based in New York and Miami, Rowe and Mehar open with a roster of companies including: Chapeau Studios, a VFX and design studio; editorial and production company Cutters Studios; E1 Studios, a mainstay in the field of pre-visualization that now handles any stage of the production pipeline from start to finish; MAS, Music and Strategy, a bicoastal music and sound studio; Quriosity Productions, a minority-owned studio which offers production, post and photography; minority-owned production company Unicorns & Unicorns; and production company Windy Films. Rowe comes to THICK and THIN from his own company, Bobby Rowe, while Mehar comes over from her post as head of sales at E1 Studios. Rowe is a native New Yorker who found his way into repping from his first perch at Crushing Music where he started as an intern. That’s where he met Mehar, a London native who’d just arrived in NYC on a Mountbatten internship. Rowe went on to become a producer, albeit with a sales focus, at music house Karmagroove and has worked as a freelance composer. Mehar connected him with his next gig, at MAS, and from there he landed at the pre-viz specialist shop 321 Launch, where he reconnected with Mehar. He opened his own repping firm after leaving Launch in 2019. Mehar’s career took a similar path, with a few side jaunts. After Crushing Music, she joined edit house The Well, and ended up working with indie rep Jolie Miller. Mehar took a year’s break to work in Dubai, then landed a sales and marketing gig at a Wall Street private club, where she specialized in partnering with global luxury brands seeking to connect with its clientele. She then returned to the ad biz, landing at 321 Launch while also opening her own rep firm Cachet, before going in-house at E1 Studios…
