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EXCLUSIVE: WME Motion Picture Group Agent Niki Montazaran is joining Cinetic Media arsenic Senior Manager wherever she’ll beryllium based successful nan LA agency expanding nan firm’s practice pinch preeminent filmmaking and lit talent.
Throughout her profession astatine WME, and antecedently astatine nan Motion Picture Lit Department of ICM, Montazaran repped multihyphenates, producers, and emerging talent. Among nan filmmakers she has worked pinch are BAFTA victor Babak Anvari (Under nan Shadow), Indie Spirit victor Roshan Sethi (A Nice Indian Boy, and nan upcoming Surgeon starring Michelle Yeoh), Nida Manzoor (Polite Society, Channel 4’s critically-acclaimed We Are Lady Parts), and Aleshea Harris (Is God Is). She represented galore clients successful nan all-audience, drama abstraction specified arsenic filmmaker Jeff Fowler (Sonic), writers Buchsbaum & Riley (Goat, Amazon’s Fairfax), and nan Molyneux Sisters (upcoming Mitchells vs. Machines 2, The Great North, Bob’s Burgers). She has guided nan movie careers of galore creators from nan TV, theatre, and documentary spaces, including Pulitzer Prize victor Katori Hall (Hot Wing King, P-Valley), Robin Thede (A Black Lady Sketch Show), Gabriela Cowperthwaite (Blackfish), and Academy-Award victor Roger Ross Williams (Cassandro). She besides worked intimately pinch respective accumulation companies, mounting up their projects and advising connected their slates, including Janelle Monae’s Wondaland Pictures and Ben Affleck’s Artists Equity, among others.
“Knowing that Niki, who had her veritable prime of landing spots, appreciated nan trajectory of our maturation and nan worth Cinetic brings to high-level storytellers, has sent a jolt of excitement done nan full company. She is simply a cleanable fresh for our team,” said John Sloss, Cinetic topper.
Notable Cinetic Media clients see Richard Linklater, David Gordon Green, Todd Haynes, Aaron Schimberg & Vanessa McDonnell, Matthew Rankin, Killer Films, World of Wonder, Lana Wilson, Betsy West & Julie Cohen, Yance Ford, Matthew Heineman, Petra Costa, and Kevin Macdonald, to sanction conscionable a few.
