Net/Work Series: Establishing Hollywood connections

Erman Baradi is the co-founder of MixKnowledgy Hollywood event series in Los Angeles, New York City, Chicago, Virginia, and London, founder of music panel series Project Muse, and co-founder of The Film Empire filmmaking mentorship.

Erman Baradi

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<P>Virginia Beach's own was named "Top Networker in Hollywood" by The Huffington Post, November 2016. Here's how.</P>
<P>Regent University film graduate Erman Baradi went from intern to co-founder of one of Hollywood's fastest rising event series MixKnowledgy, and was recently signed to a boutique literary management company in Los Angeles, all the while residing in Virginia. In 2017, Erman pays it forward to his fellow Virginians with a series of seminars on his personal journey, delivering tips on breaking into the industry on using the resources at your disposal. Session will end with a Skype call Q&A with a Hollywood pro (TBA). Only <STRONG>40 seats </STRONG>available.</P>
<P>Erman was also featured in ALIST Magazine, highlighting Asian American successes; named "Who's Next in Hollywood" by NXUP Magazine in 2015; featured by the Crowdfire app as "social media success," and spotlighted by the International Business Times, Inside Business, and The Virginian Pilot in 2016.</P>
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<DIV CLASS="_1mf _1mj"><SPAN>Ethan Goldman is a media consultant with twenty years of experience working in television, film and digital. Most recently Goldman served as Head of Development at Morgan Spurlock’s Warrior Poets, where he developed multiple tv, film and digital projects including American Takedown (A&E), Dark Horse Nation (History), The HALO Effect (Nickelodeon), a feature length doc for CMT Films entitled Freedom! The Movie, and Connected for AOL. </SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV CLASS="_1mf _1mj"><SPAN>Goldman also served as an Executive Producer on Censored Voices, a feature doc that premiered at Sundance 2015 in the World Cinema Doc category.</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV CLASS="_1mf _1mj"><SPAN>Prior to joining Warrior Poets, Ethan was Senior Vice President of Ish Entertainment, where he developed projects for cable tv (Brooklyn 11223, Bravo’s Approval Matrix, Patrice Oneal’s Guide to White People, Diplo’s Never Coming Home, America on Zero Dollars with Gavin McInnes) and played an instrumental role in launching two YouTube channels: MyISH, a music discovery platform for millennials, and Life +Times, a collaboration with Jay-Z. </SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV CLASS="_1mf _1mj"><SPAN>Before Ish Entertainment, Ethan worked as a creative consultant for various cable networks developing show ideas and original programming for AMC, truTV, and Fuse.</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV CLASS="_1mf _1mj"><SPAN>From 2006 to 2008, Ethan ran the television division of Original Media (The Rachel Zoe Project, Storm Chasers, LA Ink), overseeing production and development on projects for Bravo, Discovery, TLC, MTV, VH1 and Fuse.</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV CLASS="_1mf _1mj"><SPAN>Prior to Original Media, Ethan was Director of Production Development at MTV, where he was responsible for developing long-form series and specials for both MTV and MTV2.</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV CLASS="_1mf _1mj"><SPAN>Ethan got his start in business at VH1, working for Lauren Zalaznick, contributing to projects like 100 Greatest, Vogue/VH1 Fashion Awards, Pop Up Video and Vh1 Movies of the Week.</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV CLASS="_1mf _1mj"><SPAN>During his five-year tenure at VH1, Ethan spent six months on loan to Paramount Films as Ben Stiller’s assistant on Zoolander.</SPAN></DIV>
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<P>Erman's former lineups in LA, NYC, Chicago, and Virgina have included the likes of Lauren Shuler Donner (producer, Deadpool, X-Men: Apocalypse), <SPAN CLASS="il">April</SPAN> <SPAN CLASS="il">Webster</SPAN> and Tommy Harper (casting director and executive producer of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, respectively), Angela Kang (executive producer, writer, The Walking Dead), Gail Barringer (producer, Luke Cage), Carlos Villalobos (music producer, Empire), Ta'Rhonda Jones (actress, Empire), Rachel Polan (Lionsgate TV), Mandy Teefey (executive producer, Thirteen Reasons Why), Claire Simon (casting director, Empire, Chicago Fire), Rachael Wesolowski (publicist to Bryan Cranston, Alison Brie, Thomas Middleditch), Alex Ott (co-producer, Suicide Squad), James Foley (director, House of Cards, Fifty Shades Darker), Byron Wetzel (manager, Michael Shannon), Alexander Dinelaris (Academy Award winning writer, Birdman), Doug Jung (writer, Star Trek Beyond), Stephany Folsom (writer, Thor: Ragnarok), Joshua Allen (story editor, Empire), Thomas Dean Donnelly (writer, Doctor Strange), Alan Wenkus (Academy Award nominated writer and executive producer, Straight Outta Compton), Gary Pearl (executive producer, Jane the Virgin), Mac Quayle (composer, Mr. Robot, American Horror Story), Lewaa Nasserdeen (writer, The Goldbergs, The Real O'Neals), Kerry Barden (casting director, Spotlight, Jessica Jones), Marci Liroff (casting director, E.T., Indiana Jones, Poltergeist), Carol Bodie (manager, Ruby Rose), Miles Cooley (entertainment lawyer, Rihanna), Gohar Gazazyan (casting director, The Walking Dead, Gotham), CAA agent Rick Lucas (Neil Patrick Harris, Dave Franco, Jason Statham), Jackie Sollitto (casting associate, The Flash, Arrow, Supergirl), commercial agent Liz Dalling (Chris Hemsworth, Henry Cavill), Jazmyn Simon (actress, Ballers), Megan Brophy (publicist, Serena Williams, Ellen Page, Elijah Wood), Stephen Rider (actor, Daredevil season 2), Jeffrey Bernstein (clients include Norman Reedus, Blake Lively, Samuel L. Jackson, Margot Robbie, Kit Harington, Judi Dench), talent manager Ashley Josephson (clients include Tessa Thompson, Vanessa Lachey, Kate Mara) of Mosaic, manager Jason Barrett (Zac Efron, LL Cool J), actor Dale Godboldo (The People vs. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story), Sheri Elwood (writer, Lucifer), Simon Hatt (co-producer, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2), Markus Bensch (production executive, The Hunger Games, Captain America: Civil War), several castmembers of Orange is the New Black, and more.</P>
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