(Final Up to date On: February 16, 2023)

MakeMake Leisure has introduced its MakeMake Residencies’ inaugural class. The nine-month paid residency program is designed to open pathways for various professionals working within the leisure business. Areas of focus embrace editorial, visible results, design, sound supervision, and manufacturing. Netflix is this system’s flagship associate, with help made attainable by the Netflix Fund for Inventive Fairness, a devoted effort to assist construct new alternatives for underrepresented communities inside leisure.

With outreach assist from a community of main tradition change organizations together with Ghetto Movie Faculty, UCLA’s Heart for Students & Storytellers, Storyline Companions, Rooster & Egg Footage, and extra, this system obtained an enthusiastic response exceeding 500 candidates. 

The 5 residents chosen to take part in this system are Adiana Rivera (Editorial), Mohammed Rahman (Editorial), Jason Gaines (Design & Visible Results), Pilar Fitzgerald (Sound Supervision) and Anfernee Aguado (Manufacturing). 

Collaborating instantly with MakeMake’s artists and producers, residents will take part within the firm’s distinctive interdisciplinary method and are already at work on energetic studio initiatives spanning documentary and scripted content material, principal titles, leisure advertising and marketing and world promoting. Led by Residency co-directors Liat Rubin and Bedonna Smith, Head of Expertise Ann Hoang, and Managing Director Jennifer Sofio Corridor, programming will embrace one-on-one mentorship with MakeMake professionals, inside and exterior speaker occasions, profession growth, and interplay with main corporations throughout the big range of the studio’s collaborators and shoppers. By this system, contributors will deepen their storytelling craft and proceed to construct the abilities they should thrive. The residents will interact throughout MakeMake’s household of corporations, together with Rock Paper Scissors, Elastic, a52, Major, Jax, Indestructible and MakeMake Leisure. 

Editorial Resident: Adiana Rivera (She/Her) Adiana Rivera is a Bronx native and a documentarian. Adiana’s work focuses on identification, gentrification, group and tradition. Her abilities embrace cinematography, images and video enhancing.

Manufacturing Resident: Anfernee Aguado (He/Him) Anfernee Aguado is a Los Angeles native who’s been working as a producer in movie/video for the final three years. He has expertise working with a wide range of initiatives together with music movies, quick movies, and commercials. He appears to be like ahead to persevering with his profession path and rising as an expert. 

Design & VFX Resident: Jason Gaines (He/Him) Jason is a self-taught filmmaker, director and VFX artist. Born and raised in Detroit, MI, he started freelance filmmaking instantly after highschool, working in all the things from music movies to options, skits and business work. Impressed by early 2010’s YouTubers resembling Hall Digital & Dormtainment, Jason’s ardour for content material creation started to take form. Jason enjoys creating VFX content material for social media, sharing his quick movie work on YouTube and dealing on function movies.

Editorial Resident: Mohammed Rahman (He/Him) Mohammed “Moh” Rahman is an editor primarily based in Astoria, Queens. He has been working within the business for the previous 5 years and has edited all the things from commercials and sizzles to long-form docuseries. His early influences embrace Mighty Morphin Energy Rangers, Pokémon (Kanto – Sinnoh), and fragments of flicks caught late at night time on PBS. Nowadays he’s watching Drive to Survive, How To with John Wilson and films by Mike Leigh.

Sound Supervision Resident: Pilar Fitzgerald (She/Her) Pilar Fitzgerald is a music nerd who’s passionate concerning the intersection of range, discovery and curation. After working in occasion administration at Harvard School, Pilar joined the budding occasions group at Nationwide Public Radio, the place she spearheaded numerous editorial occasions and applications, most notably the annual Tiny Desk Contest. Pilar’s dedication to serving to artists develop finally led her to Berklee’s World Leisure and Music Enterprise Grasp’s program in Valencia, Spain. She’s excited to dive into music for visible media and be taught concerning the inventive parts that convey visuals to life.

MakeMake Leisure creates award-winning function movies, tv reveals, commercials, trailers, principal titles, and extra. Tasks embrace Netflix’s Jennifer Lopez documentary Halftime, Is That Black Sufficient For You?!? and Freedom on Fireplace: Ukraine’s Combat for Freedom, principal titles for HBO’s The Final of Us and Hulu’s Solely Murders within the Constructing, trailers for Avatar: The Method of Water, visible results for Nike’s “You Can’t Cease Us,” editorial for Nike F.C.’s “Welcome to the Footballverse” and Taylor Swift’s “All Too Nicely: The Quick Movie.” The corporate supplied editorial, design, and visible results for a number of commercials that may premiere within the NFL Tremendous Bowl LVII.