E45 - Indie Panel: Young Minds & Creative Content

Our guests are: ZEKE RODRIGUES THOMAS - Zeke Rodrigues Thomas is an award winning filmmaker and on-camera talent with over a decade of experience in the entertainment industry. You may recognize this face/voice from ad campaigns for Fortune 500 companies and viral videos that top over 100 MM views. He's also worked with some of the top companies in media including: Skybound Entertainment, Legendary Pictures, DEFY Media, and Viacom Digital Studios (VDS).

 

As Executive Producer at Mindjam Media he produced 'Don't Go Alone', a scripted anthology Halloween series for Nickelodeon as well as serving as showrunner on Super League Gaming's Minecraft City Champs also Nickelodeon. Most recently he's also served in a creative development capacity on 'Annie vs. Hayley: LeBake Off', Throw Back with Nickelodeon, and many other VDS projects.

 

BRENT COBLE - Brent Coble currently serves as the Director, Production & Development at ViacomCBS Digital Studios. In this role, Brent leads Nickelodeon's digital creative strategy, content development, and series production for screens of every size! In his tenure, Nickelodeon's YouTube channel has launched 25 new original series, gaining 6.5M additional subscribers along with over 3.5B video views.

 

Previous to joining Nickelodeon, Brent directed original content for Google, The Grammys, NBCUniversal, Blumhouse, Legendary Pictures, Paramount Pictures, and more.

 

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