EXCLUSIVE: Rain has introduced in expertise/lit supervisor and producer Barney Slobodin. He’ll begin in July. Slobodin joins Rain from Cavalry Media, the place he helped launch a administration division.
On the lit facet, he represents Mitchell LaFortune (Kandahar), Benjamin Klein (Profitable Time), David Schickler (Banshee), administrators Miguel Ortega/Tran Ma (The Ningyo), Tiffanie Hsu (Waterschool) and second unit director, Tim Connolly (Previous Man). His appearing shoppers embrace Ryder McLaughlin (North Hollywood), Mikayla Bartholomew (King Richard), Oliver Cooper (Mission X) and Nadiv Molcho (Transatlantic).
Slobodin produced New York Emmy-winning documentary 62,000:1 Three Groups, One Metropolis, One 12 months, concerning the historic stretch in 1969 when the New York Mets, Jets and Knicks all gained championships, for Basil Iwanyk’s sports activities division, Game1 and SportsNet New York.
Previous to increasing into administration, Slobodin labored at Iwanyk’s Thunder Street. He began as an assistant and rose over six years to turn out to be VP of Manufacturing & Improvement. He was concerned within the productions of John Wick 1 and a couple of, the Sicario franchise, Wind River, The Present Battle, and shepherded the event of Lodge Mumbai, The Informer, Greenland and Bruised.
Slobodin began his profession as an intern at Escape Artists and dealing in Movement Image Expertise at CAA for Matt DelPiano.
“We’re so happy to have Barney be part of the corporate,” mentioned Rain COO Rob Wolken. “Not solely is it good to have one other formidable and expert supervisor on the firm however the addition of Barney particularly, together with his distinctive listing of shoppers and wonderful producing expertise, completely enhances our aim to turn out to be the pre-eminent vacation spot for distinctive artists.”
