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Master Classes are in-depth, interactive learning experiences focused on craft and career building and led by renowned industry experts. Topics include fiction and documentary filmmaking, TV writing and production, and navigating and succeeding in the entertainment industry.


To maintain a fulfilling career in the entertainment industry as a writer or director, you need to surround yourself with a team that supports your work and helps you get exposed to the most opportunities. If you’re trying to break in, how do you choose when to bring on a talent agent and a manager? What are the key elements to finding the collaborators that will represent you as your career progresses? Who can you trust and turn to when there are many important decisions to be made? This three-hour master class provides a unique opportunity to learn when to seek representation, what are the key roles to fill, how to find them and other essential information you need to know before building your team. The Hollywood Reporter’s Rebecca Sun shares her insights from the field and moderates in-depth conversations with managers Melissa Breaux and Adam Marshall from Management 360, literary agent Christina Chou from CAA and entertainment attorney Elsa Ramo.


Resources:

Download the list of resources from Rebecca Sun, Elsa Ramo, Adam Marshall, Melissa Breaux, Christina Chou and Sundance Collab


Topics Covered Include:

    00:00 - Welcome and Introduction from Sundance Collab

    04:58 - Introduction to Hollywood Representatives with Rebecca Sun and Elsa Ramo

    08:50 - The Different Types of Representation

    26:26 - An Overview of Agents, Lawyers and Managers

    43:15 - Q&A with Elsa Ramo

    1:03 - The Benefits of Having a Manager with Melissa Breaux and Adam Marshall

    1:17 - How Managers Find New Clients

    1:36 - How and When Managers Act as Producers

    1:50 - Q&A with Melissa Breaux and Adam Marshall

    2:06 - How To Connect with an Agent with Christina Chou

    2:19 - The Right Time to Find an Agent

    2:42 - Q&A with Christina Chou

    2:53 - Final Thoughts

    2:56 - Closing Announcements


    Past classes have included Academy Award-winning director Roger Ross Williams on Documentary Storytelling, Finding Dory’s Victoria Strouse on Comedy Writing, Emmy-nominated director Lesli Linka Glatter on Blocking a Scene, The Walking Dead’s Glen Mazzara on TV Writing and more.

Moderator
Rebecca Sun is senior editor of diversity and inclusion at The Hollywood Reporter, where she oversees equity and representation for the publication. She previously covered the agency business for THR. In 2019, the nonprofit collective Gold House named her to the A100 list of the most impactful Asians and AAPIs in culture, and she won a National Arts & Entertainment Journalism Award for her feature about a Black woman TV writers’ collective. more...
Panelist
Breaux’s clients include many Sundance alum filmmakers, including Nicole Kassell (CLAWS and WATCHMAN pilots, THE LEFTOVERS), Sean Durkin (MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE, THE NEST), Antonio Campos (SIMON KILLER, THE DEVIL ALL THE TIME), Josh Mond (JAMES WHITE), Nicolas Pesce (EYES OF MY MOTHER, PIERCING), Eliza Hittman (BEACH RATS, NEVER RARELY SOMETIME ALWAYS) and Nia DaCosta (LITTLE WOODS, CANDYMAN). more...
Panelist
A graduate of Syracuse University, Adam Marshall started his career at Brillstein Entertainment and Bruckheimer Films. Transitioning to management full-time, he worked for boutique management firm Energy Entertainment for 6 years. After a short stint with Caliber Media, he joined Management 360 as a literary manager in 2014. more...
Panelist
Named to Variety’s 2022 ““Legal Impact Report,” 2021 “Women's Impact Report,” 2021 “Dealmakers List,” Daily Journal’s 2022 “Top 100 Women Lawyers” list, and Los Angeles Business Journal’s 2022 “Women of Influence,” Elsa Ramo represents financiers, producers and production companies in the sale, production and/or exploitation of content from traditional theatrical release to unscripted and scripted content on Disney+, Netflix, HBOMax, Hulu, Amazon and other streamers. Having founded her firm in 2005 on the Universal Studios backlot to enable up-and-coming filmmakers to bring their stories to life, the now bi-coastal firm has 16 attorneys and has furthered its mission by creating a Packaging and Sales department that advises and connects filmmakers across a range of budgets and production levels. Ramo’s clients include Imagine Entertainment and Imagine Impact, Kevin Hart’s production companies Laugh Out Loud and HartBeat Productions, Scout Productions (“Queer Eye”), Boardwalk Pictures (“Chefs Table”), Hello Sunshine, Yale Productions, Viola Davis’ JuVee Productions, The Jim Henson Company, and Skydance. Passionate about the legal and entertainment communities, Elsa dedicates substantial time to mentoring women through various organizations; and she has become a go-to commentator and instructor on legal issues related to film financing and the entertainment market for media outlets including Variety, LA Times, Fox News and The Wrap. more...

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