Creative Artists Agency has reintroduced managing directors, naming nine today, and announced a big expansion of its agency board as its leadership structure evolves.
Managing directors, a group reintroduced after years, include leaders across select areas, who will work alongside CAA Co-Chairman and CEO Bryan Lourd, Co-Chairmen Kevin Huvane and Richard Lovett, and President Jim Burtson on a wide range of strategic business and operational matters.
Named Managing Directors are: Rob Light (music), Howard Nuchow (sports), Joe Cohen (TV), Michael Levine (sports) , Joel Lubin (motion picture), Maha Dakhil (motion picture), Chris Silbermann (TV), Tiffany Ward (TV), and Paul Danforth (sports). Of the nine, all but Silbermann come from the CAA side of the company.
CFO Carol Sawdye and Chief Legal Officer Hilary Krane continue to serve in their leadership roles.
CAA’s expanded Agency Board will now hone in on specific goals. It will work with the CAA Co-Chairmen and...
Managing directors, a group reintroduced after years, include leaders across select areas, who will work alongside CAA Co-Chairman and CEO Bryan Lourd, Co-Chairmen Kevin Huvane and Richard Lovett, and President Jim Burtson on a wide range of strategic business and operational matters.
Named Managing Directors are: Rob Light (music), Howard Nuchow (sports), Joe Cohen (TV), Michael Levine (sports) , Joel Lubin (motion picture), Maha Dakhil (motion picture), Chris Silbermann (TV), Tiffany Ward (TV), and Paul Danforth (sports). Of the nine, all but Silbermann come from the CAA side of the company.
CFO Carol Sawdye and Chief Legal Officer Hilary Krane continue to serve in their leadership roles.
CAA’s expanded Agency Board will now hone in on specific goals. It will work with the CAA Co-Chairmen and...
- 4/11/2024
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
Creative Artists Agency has appointed nine managing directors and changed up its agency board membership.
The new managing directors include Rob Light, Howard Nuchow, Joe Cohen, Michael Levine, Joel Lubin, Maha Dakhil, Chris Silbermann, Tiffany Ward and Paul Danforth. CFO Carol Sawdye and chief legal officer Hilary Krane will continue in their roles.
The managing directors will work alongside CAA co-chairman and CEO Bryan Lourd, co-chairmen Kevin Huvane and Richard Lovett and president Jim Burtson on varying strategic business and operational matters.
The agency board will work with the CAA co-chairmen and president “on ensuring the continued strength of the company’s highly regarded culture of service, collaboration, and opportunity, built for personal client service,” including dealmaking, training and development and innovation. The move marks the latest rework for the agency since its sale to Artémis, the investment firm controlled by François-Henri Pinault, last September.
Members of the agency board include Katie Anderson,...
The new managing directors include Rob Light, Howard Nuchow, Joe Cohen, Michael Levine, Joel Lubin, Maha Dakhil, Chris Silbermann, Tiffany Ward and Paul Danforth. CFO Carol Sawdye and chief legal officer Hilary Krane will continue in their roles.
The managing directors will work alongside CAA co-chairman and CEO Bryan Lourd, co-chairmen Kevin Huvane and Richard Lovett and president Jim Burtson on varying strategic business and operational matters.
The agency board will work with the CAA co-chairmen and president “on ensuring the continued strength of the company’s highly regarded culture of service, collaboration, and opportunity, built for personal client service,” including dealmaking, training and development and innovation. The move marks the latest rework for the agency since its sale to Artémis, the investment firm controlled by François-Henri Pinault, last September.
Members of the agency board include Katie Anderson,...
- 4/11/2024
- by Caitlin Huston
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Metaphysical podcast The Outer Limits of Inner Truth recently commemorated its ten-year anniversary. Publishing 435 episodes with over two million downloads, the program has encompassed freedom, deep introspection, self discovery, and spiritual growth.
Originally billed as “The world’s only show about Forensic Soul Analysis,” Olit would feature a guest and afterwards three spiritual teachers would each offer their analysis on the individual’s past lives, soul purpose, and astrological chart.
"The purpose of Olit has always been to explore consciousness and present information that a person can use to enhance the quality of their life. Insatiable curiosity and introspection have been the two driving concepts behind the program. We haven't been afraid to seek truth or aggressively challenge long-held collective beliefs." said Ryan McCormick, host of the Outer Limits of Inner Truth.
Within a few short months of its premiere , Olit was picked up for national syndication on Starcom Radio...
Originally billed as “The world’s only show about Forensic Soul Analysis,” Olit would feature a guest and afterwards three spiritual teachers would each offer their analysis on the individual’s past lives, soul purpose, and astrological chart.
"The purpose of Olit has always been to explore consciousness and present information that a person can use to enhance the quality of their life. Insatiable curiosity and introspection have been the two driving concepts behind the program. We haven't been afraid to seek truth or aggressively challenge long-held collective beliefs." said Ryan McCormick, host of the Outer Limits of Inner Truth.
Within a few short months of its premiere , Olit was picked up for national syndication on Starcom Radio...
- 4/10/2024
- Podnews.net
As the shockwaves continue to reverberate from Tuesday’s news of the planned merger of Saudi-backed Liv Golf and the PGA Tour, it appears likely that a lot more foreign money will soon start to flow into U.S. sports.
That was the consensus on a panel of sports media veterans assembled Thursday at Gabelli Funds’ 15th annual Media and Entertainment Symposium in New York. CAA Sports co-head Michael Levine, Sal Galatioto and Forbes editor Michael Ozanian said the notion of Saudi Arabia buying its way into the sport of golf — while controversial in many quarters — is a sign of the global appeal of sports properties, whose value has continued to appreciate.
Galatioto noted that the four major U.S. sports leagues — the NFL, NBA, NHL and Major League Baseball — have no explicit provisions barring ownership of teams by overseas entities. Until 2016, Japan-based Nintendo had a majority interest in baseball’s Seattle Mariners,...
That was the consensus on a panel of sports media veterans assembled Thursday at Gabelli Funds’ 15th annual Media and Entertainment Symposium in New York. CAA Sports co-head Michael Levine, Sal Galatioto and Forbes editor Michael Ozanian said the notion of Saudi Arabia buying its way into the sport of golf — while controversial in many quarters — is a sign of the global appeal of sports properties, whose value has continued to appreciate.
Galatioto noted that the four major U.S. sports leagues — the NFL, NBA, NHL and Major League Baseball — have no explicit provisions barring ownership of teams by overseas entities. Until 2016, Japan-based Nintendo had a majority interest in baseball’s Seattle Mariners,...
- 6/8/2023
- by Dade Hayes
- Deadline Film + TV
White Pine Pictures executive Andrew Munger has re-launched his outfit Ultramagnetic Productions with a slate of drama and documentary projects.
Munger first operated Ultramagnetic Productions from 1997 to 2004, producing non-fiction projects including “Walmart Nation,” “Campaign: The Making of a Candidate,” “Xanadu: In Search of Domestic Perfection” and “Make Some Noise!” for networks such as the CBC, Discovery, History and Life/Slice. He shuttered the company in 2005 to run television production at World Vision, Canada’s largest non-profit organization, before moving to Toronto’s White Pine Pictures in 2014.
After eight years, Munger is stepping down from his role as director of unscripted development at White Pine in order to restart Ultramagnetic.
However, he will continue as an executive producer on several key White Pine feature documentaries, including “Buffy Sainte Marie: Carry It On” (Bell/PBS) and “The Con: Churchill and Roosevelt Secret American War” (Super Channel/Wnet/Arte/Beyond Rights). The latter...
Munger first operated Ultramagnetic Productions from 1997 to 2004, producing non-fiction projects including “Walmart Nation,” “Campaign: The Making of a Candidate,” “Xanadu: In Search of Domestic Perfection” and “Make Some Noise!” for networks such as the CBC, Discovery, History and Life/Slice. He shuttered the company in 2005 to run television production at World Vision, Canada’s largest non-profit organization, before moving to Toronto’s White Pine Pictures in 2014.
After eight years, Munger is stepping down from his role as director of unscripted development at White Pine in order to restart Ultramagnetic.
However, he will continue as an executive producer on several key White Pine feature documentaries, including “Buffy Sainte Marie: Carry It On” (Bell/PBS) and “The Con: Churchill and Roosevelt Secret American War” (Super Channel/Wnet/Arte/Beyond Rights). The latter...
- 6/23/2022
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
From 2007 to 2008, writer, seasoned war journalist and filmmaker Sebastian Junger went on patrol, survived an Ied attack, endured firefights and boredom, and bonded with the soldiers of Camp Restrepo, a remote outpost deep in the Korengal Valley in the northeast region of Afghanistan. Embedded with the men of U.S. Army Battle Company 2nd of the 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team, Junger and his co-director, Tim Hetherington, documented the experience in their 2010 movie Restrepo — a you-are-there account of modern combat that earned the duo an Academy-Award nomination for Best Documentary.
- 6/2/2014
- Rollingstone.com
It's been nearly a year since we last told you about the indie flick Gravedigger so we're more than overdue for an update! Get set to dig on the newest bit of artwork and the very first trailer, and look for more on this one soon.
From the Press Release:
Bury your guilt! A vigilante serial killer is stalking, killing, and burying those he has judged guilty; and anyone in this corrupt beach town could be next!
Filmed in New Jersey, the disturbing, twisted shock-fest Gravedigger is a sinister collaboration among the minds of award-winning actor Keith Collins (Stuck in the Middle, The Meat Puppet), Doug Bollinger (Waltzing Anna), Brandon Ruckdashel (Co-ed Confidential), and the eerie ink of NY Emmy Award-winning writer Joseph Pepitone and Billy Pepitone (Stuck in the Middle). It also includes original music from guitar rock genius Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal (Guns N' Roses). This intense horror/thriller...
From the Press Release:
Bury your guilt! A vigilante serial killer is stalking, killing, and burying those he has judged guilty; and anyone in this corrupt beach town could be next!
Filmed in New Jersey, the disturbing, twisted shock-fest Gravedigger is a sinister collaboration among the minds of award-winning actor Keith Collins (Stuck in the Middle, The Meat Puppet), Doug Bollinger (Waltzing Anna), Brandon Ruckdashel (Co-ed Confidential), and the eerie ink of NY Emmy Award-winning writer Joseph Pepitone and Billy Pepitone (Stuck in the Middle). It also includes original music from guitar rock genius Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal (Guns N' Roses). This intense horror/thriller...
- 1/29/2014
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Covering the horror scene as long as we have, we've seen some pretty eclectic cast lists, but with its assortment of reality TV stars, ex-baseball players, lady wrestlers, and a musician (oh yeah, there are a few regular actors in there, too), Gravedigger could be the oddest one yet!
From the Press Release:
Have you ever felt you needed to just bury your guilt? Literally...
Currently filming is 2013’s most gruesome tale of fear and fright, Gravedigger. A sinister collaboration among the minds of award-winning actor Keith Collins (Stuck in the Middle, The Meat Puppet), Doug Bollinger (Waltzing Anna), and Brandon Ruckdashel (“Co-ed Confidential”) and from the eerie ink of NY Emmy-award winning writer Joseph Pepitone and his brother, Billy Pepitone (Stuck in the Middle), Gravedigger is a horrifying shockfest that will keep you on the edge of your seat and the brink of insanity throughout a terrifying journey of paranoia.
From the Press Release:
Have you ever felt you needed to just bury your guilt? Literally...
Currently filming is 2013’s most gruesome tale of fear and fright, Gravedigger. A sinister collaboration among the minds of award-winning actor Keith Collins (Stuck in the Middle, The Meat Puppet), Doug Bollinger (Waltzing Anna), and Brandon Ruckdashel (“Co-ed Confidential”) and from the eerie ink of NY Emmy-award winning writer Joseph Pepitone and his brother, Billy Pepitone (Stuck in the Middle), Gravedigger is a horrifying shockfest that will keep you on the edge of your seat and the brink of insanity throughout a terrifying journey of paranoia.
- 2/9/2013
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
In the sixties San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury was hippie central and home to a burgeoning counter-culture. Amidst the growing discontent with mainstream society was a man who many saw as a spiritual guru. Stephen Gaskin held a Monday night class attracting over 1,500 followers every week and preached truth, selflessness, and egalitarianism--spiritual teachings that combined his own unique mix of Christianity and world religions. Then, came the idea of building an alternative community--a social experiment of sorts that stood in stark contrast to American middle class society. This is how The Farm, a commune in rural Tennessee, was born.
A ragtag group of 300 hippies drove across the country--from San Francisco to Tennessee--in brightly painted vans and old school buses until arriving in Summertown. Amongst the hippies and dropouts were Jan and Jose Mundo an,“unlikely coupling of a Puerto Rican from the Bronx and a Jewish girl from Beverly Hills.” They would spend over a decade living on the Farm, under a vow poverty, raising their children and, “trying to change the world.”
Led by Gaskin, the Farm was founded in 1970, based on a model of communal living. They grew their own food, threw all their money into a community pot and provided health care, housing, and clothing to anyone that walked on to the commune. To outsiders it seemed like a crazy, utopian idea that was destined to fail. Nadine and Rena Mundo, who were born on the commune along with their brother Miguel, never knew anything different. To them, it was neither crazy nor utopian it was their home. Even as a young kid, without having experienced life outside the Farm, Nadine sensed that where she lived was special, “I remember riding my bike around with my best friends in the middle of the night during the summer. It was pitch black and you could see all of the stars. I knew that the sense of freedom and safety we had was totally unique to being kids on this commune.”
In its heyday The Farm grew to house over 1,500 people and was the largest commune in the United States. But, over time resources became more and more scarce. And, the Mundo’s marriage began to fall apart. Though painful, they decided to leave the commune, separately. There was a mass exodus from The Farm starting in the eighties and it included Nadine, Rena, and their mom who moved to their grandparents’ luxury apartment building in Santa Monica, California.
Life off The Farm wasn’t an easy transition for pre-teen Nadine and Rena. On The Farm there was no T.V. and they couldn’t wear makeup, eat meat or have their own things. They struggled to fit in and kept their past a secret from their new friends. “The outside world was so foreign it might as well have been another country. For a long time we were just trying to blend in with mainstream society and didn’t tell anyone where we came from because of the negative reactions we would get. When we were kids we felt like when people think of communes they think about a bunch of crazy hippies running around naked in the woods. It wasn’t a good look for us in Los Angeles.”
Fast forward a couple of decades and the Mundo sisters, having spent their childhood never watching television, found themselves working for Viacom, one of the biggest media conglomerates there is, as directors for MTV. It was this paradox that sparked the idea to make a documentary. Rena explains, “We were working at MTV in the heart of commercialism and after a while we became dissatisfied with our work and wanted to do something more meaningful. We started talking about where we came from and wanted to understand what our parents were doing in the backwoods of Tennessee and how they, along with hundreds of others, managed to create a massive socialist society.”
Rena and Nadine didn’t have much money to make American Commune. They mostly self-financed with some support from grants like The Jerome Foundation, The New York State Council of the Arts, and Women In Film. Relying on their own cash and throwing fundraisers they chugged along, taking several years to finish shooting their doc, “When we first started production we used our own savings from working in television to finance initial research and film shooting. We basically would work on the film for a few months and then have to go back to television jobs to finance it and the cycle continued like that. And like every other indie filmmaker we know, we racked up tons of credit card debt.” Not having money for a crew forced them to quickly learn new skills.
“The silver lining of this is that we taught ourselves how to shoot because we didn’t have enough funds to hire a Dp.” It turns out, this was the right choice. The footage they shot of themselves--riding in a car to the commune, putting on make-up, looking through old family pictures and reminiscing about family stories with their mom--feels like you are watching home movies. Not the shaky kind that make you feel nauseous but the type that capture intimate moments that no outsider could ever get. It’s such a deeply personal film but at the same time tells the story of the thousands of people who passed through The Farm.
The Farm attracted a lot of attention and was often visited by news crews. Nadine and Rena used these news stories to add another layer to the visual look of their doc. “A lot of the archival footage we have in our film was shot by the major networks, including ABC, NBC, CBS and BBC. Most of that footage is gorgeous, it was back when an entire film crew would go out and shoot an hour of b-roll in 35mm. It gives our film a distinctly original look that we just fell in love with. It really brings you into our commune during its peak.” The blending of what they shot themselves together with the archival footage creates a beautifully laid out montage of the public and private life that many experienced on the commune.
Nadine Mundo and Rena Mundo Croshere produced, shot and directed American Commune. They worked with Michael Levine, the editor of the Academy Award-nominated film Restrepo to cut the footage. Now, they are in need of funds to complete post-production. If you contribute to their kickstarter campaign, you’ll help them finish the film, pay for licensing fees for archival footage, and have some money left over for marketing. They hope to reach what they see as a natural audience for their film, “With today’s unemployment rate, there seems to be a renewed interest in exploring alternative ways of existing in this country and we think the story of our commune will be moving for many of those people.” I agree.
Become a fan of American Commune on Facebook, follow them on Twitter and visit their website. Become a backer on their kickstarter page. The deadline to reach their fundraising goal is December 2.
Written by Juan Caceres and Vanessa Erazo, LatinoBuzz is a weekly feature on SydneysBuzz that highlights Latino indie talent and upcoming trends in Latino film with the specific objective of presenting a broad range of Latino voices. Follow @LatinoBuzz on twitter.
A ragtag group of 300 hippies drove across the country--from San Francisco to Tennessee--in brightly painted vans and old school buses until arriving in Summertown. Amongst the hippies and dropouts were Jan and Jose Mundo an,“unlikely coupling of a Puerto Rican from the Bronx and a Jewish girl from Beverly Hills.” They would spend over a decade living on the Farm, under a vow poverty, raising their children and, “trying to change the world.”
Led by Gaskin, the Farm was founded in 1970, based on a model of communal living. They grew their own food, threw all their money into a community pot and provided health care, housing, and clothing to anyone that walked on to the commune. To outsiders it seemed like a crazy, utopian idea that was destined to fail. Nadine and Rena Mundo, who were born on the commune along with their brother Miguel, never knew anything different. To them, it was neither crazy nor utopian it was their home. Even as a young kid, without having experienced life outside the Farm, Nadine sensed that where she lived was special, “I remember riding my bike around with my best friends in the middle of the night during the summer. It was pitch black and you could see all of the stars. I knew that the sense of freedom and safety we had was totally unique to being kids on this commune.”
In its heyday The Farm grew to house over 1,500 people and was the largest commune in the United States. But, over time resources became more and more scarce. And, the Mundo’s marriage began to fall apart. Though painful, they decided to leave the commune, separately. There was a mass exodus from The Farm starting in the eighties and it included Nadine, Rena, and their mom who moved to their grandparents’ luxury apartment building in Santa Monica, California.
Life off The Farm wasn’t an easy transition for pre-teen Nadine and Rena. On The Farm there was no T.V. and they couldn’t wear makeup, eat meat or have their own things. They struggled to fit in and kept their past a secret from their new friends. “The outside world was so foreign it might as well have been another country. For a long time we were just trying to blend in with mainstream society and didn’t tell anyone where we came from because of the negative reactions we would get. When we were kids we felt like when people think of communes they think about a bunch of crazy hippies running around naked in the woods. It wasn’t a good look for us in Los Angeles.”
Fast forward a couple of decades and the Mundo sisters, having spent their childhood never watching television, found themselves working for Viacom, one of the biggest media conglomerates there is, as directors for MTV. It was this paradox that sparked the idea to make a documentary. Rena explains, “We were working at MTV in the heart of commercialism and after a while we became dissatisfied with our work and wanted to do something more meaningful. We started talking about where we came from and wanted to understand what our parents were doing in the backwoods of Tennessee and how they, along with hundreds of others, managed to create a massive socialist society.”
Rena and Nadine didn’t have much money to make American Commune. They mostly self-financed with some support from grants like The Jerome Foundation, The New York State Council of the Arts, and Women In Film. Relying on their own cash and throwing fundraisers they chugged along, taking several years to finish shooting their doc, “When we first started production we used our own savings from working in television to finance initial research and film shooting. We basically would work on the film for a few months and then have to go back to television jobs to finance it and the cycle continued like that. And like every other indie filmmaker we know, we racked up tons of credit card debt.” Not having money for a crew forced them to quickly learn new skills.
“The silver lining of this is that we taught ourselves how to shoot because we didn’t have enough funds to hire a Dp.” It turns out, this was the right choice. The footage they shot of themselves--riding in a car to the commune, putting on make-up, looking through old family pictures and reminiscing about family stories with their mom--feels like you are watching home movies. Not the shaky kind that make you feel nauseous but the type that capture intimate moments that no outsider could ever get. It’s such a deeply personal film but at the same time tells the story of the thousands of people who passed through The Farm.
The Farm attracted a lot of attention and was often visited by news crews. Nadine and Rena used these news stories to add another layer to the visual look of their doc. “A lot of the archival footage we have in our film was shot by the major networks, including ABC, NBC, CBS and BBC. Most of that footage is gorgeous, it was back when an entire film crew would go out and shoot an hour of b-roll in 35mm. It gives our film a distinctly original look that we just fell in love with. It really brings you into our commune during its peak.” The blending of what they shot themselves together with the archival footage creates a beautifully laid out montage of the public and private life that many experienced on the commune.
Nadine Mundo and Rena Mundo Croshere produced, shot and directed American Commune. They worked with Michael Levine, the editor of the Academy Award-nominated film Restrepo to cut the footage. Now, they are in need of funds to complete post-production. If you contribute to their kickstarter campaign, you’ll help them finish the film, pay for licensing fees for archival footage, and have some money left over for marketing. They hope to reach what they see as a natural audience for their film, “With today’s unemployment rate, there seems to be a renewed interest in exploring alternative ways of existing in this country and we think the story of our commune will be moving for many of those people.” I agree.
Become a fan of American Commune on Facebook, follow them on Twitter and visit their website. Become a backer on their kickstarter page. The deadline to reach their fundraising goal is December 2.
Written by Juan Caceres and Vanessa Erazo, LatinoBuzz is a weekly feature on SydneysBuzz that highlights Latino indie talent and upcoming trends in Latino film with the specific objective of presenting a broad range of Latino voices. Follow @LatinoBuzz on twitter.
- 11/21/2012
- by Vanessa Erazo
- Sydney's Buzz
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