Fortress Talent Management, a leading agency for composers and music supervisors, has promoted Jake Kozarec to partner.
Kozarec has been with Fortress since 2016, and has overseen the careers of Lorne Balfe, Matthew Margeson, Jeff Cardoni (White House Plumbers), Keegan DeWitt, Jay Wadley, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe (Candyman), David Fleming and Alex Belcher.
Kozarec has played a key role in growing Fortress’ formidable roster, which includes Oscar-winners Howard Shore (Lord of the Rings), Gustavo Santaolalla (Brokeback Mountain), Mychael Danna (Life of Pi) and Rachel Portman (Chocolat) and Oscar nominees Nicholas Britell (Moonlight), Daniel Pemberton (Spiderman: Into the Spider-verse), Philip Glass (The Hours), Alberto Iglesias (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), Clint Mansell (The Fountain) and Owen Pallett (Her).
The company’s clients...
Kozarec has been with Fortress since 2016, and has overseen the careers of Lorne Balfe, Matthew Margeson, Jeff Cardoni (White House Plumbers), Keegan DeWitt, Jay Wadley, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe (Candyman), David Fleming and Alex Belcher.
Kozarec has played a key role in growing Fortress’ formidable roster, which includes Oscar-winners Howard Shore (Lord of the Rings), Gustavo Santaolalla (Brokeback Mountain), Mychael Danna (Life of Pi) and Rachel Portman (Chocolat) and Oscar nominees Nicholas Britell (Moonlight), Daniel Pemberton (Spiderman: Into the Spider-verse), Philip Glass (The Hours), Alberto Iglesias (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), Clint Mansell (The Fountain) and Owen Pallett (Her).
The company’s clients...
- 11/30/2023
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Stephen David Brooks is set to direct Meet the Pumps, a gritty feature set in the world of punk music, with Grammy, Golden Globe and Critics Choice Award nominee Linda Perry on board as composer, music supervisor and executive producer.
The film penned by Brooks and Mike “in Tokyo” Rogers centers on all-female LA punk band The Pumps, examining the rise, fall, and ultimate resurrection of their charismatic lead singer, Antoinette “Toni” Sabo.
Brooks and Rogers are producing, with Lara Rosenstock set to exec produce alongside Perry. Casting is currently underway, with production set to kick off in Los Angeles in the spring.
“I’m attracted to unusual suspects, drawings outside the lines. When Stephen and Mike came to me with this project I thought: ‘this is so weird count me in,'” said veteran music producer, singer-songwriter and composer Perry. “I have not seen...
The film penned by Brooks and Mike “in Tokyo” Rogers centers on all-female LA punk band The Pumps, examining the rise, fall, and ultimate resurrection of their charismatic lead singer, Antoinette “Toni” Sabo.
Brooks and Rogers are producing, with Lara Rosenstock set to exec produce alongside Perry. Casting is currently underway, with production set to kick off in Los Angeles in the spring.
“I’m attracted to unusual suspects, drawings outside the lines. When Stephen and Mike came to me with this project I thought: ‘this is so weird count me in,'” said veteran music producer, singer-songwriter and composer Perry. “I have not seen...
- 10/7/2021
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Independent artists Kris Bowers, Germaine Franco, Danielle Eva Schwob and Jeremy Turner are among the select few for this summer’s Music and Sound Design Labs held at Skywalker Ranch in northern California.
This is the third year that Skywalker Ranch will host the Music and Sound Design Labs, a joint initiative between the Sundance Institute’s Film Music Program and Feature Film and the Film Music Program and Documentary Film Program.
The Music and Sound Design Labs provide workshops and creative exercises for composers, directors and sound designers to collaborate on the process of designing a soundtrack for film.
“This year’s fellows include an outstanding group of composers whose work will deepen and enrich the experience of the diverse personal stories being told by these fiction and documentary filmmakers,” said Sundance Institute Film Music Program director Peter Golub.
“Skywalker Sound is the perfect space for composers, filmmakers and sound designers to come together to explore...
This is the third year that Skywalker Ranch will host the Music and Sound Design Labs, a joint initiative between the Sundance Institute’s Film Music Program and Feature Film and the Film Music Program and Documentary Film Program.
The Music and Sound Design Labs provide workshops and creative exercises for composers, directors and sound designers to collaborate on the process of designing a soundtrack for film.
“This year’s fellows include an outstanding group of composers whose work will deepen and enrich the experience of the diverse personal stories being told by these fiction and documentary filmmakers,” said Sundance Institute Film Music Program director Peter Golub.
“Skywalker Sound is the perfect space for composers, filmmakers and sound designers to come together to explore...
- 6/30/2015
- ScreenDaily
In a shakeup of the talent agency world specializing in film and TV composers, Robert Messinger has bolted First Artists Management and taken two of his colleagues with him to form Fortress Talent Management. Messinger, who had been a partner and co-owner of First Artists, will be joined in the new venture by former First Artists agents Rich Jacobellis and Randy Gerston. The agency confirmed the departures but declined further comment. Oscar winners Howard Shore, Mychael…...
- 5/5/2015
- Deadline
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