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Crunchyroll

November 29, 2022

$$$

Associate Producer (Chinese) – Mobile Games

CA Culver City

Job Type:

Staff / Crew

Skills:

Videography

Who We Are

We’re a cast of characters working to shine a spotlight on anime. Crunchyroll is an international business focused on creating both online and offline experiences for fans through content (licensed, co-produced, originals, distribution), merchandise, events, gaming, news, and more. Visit our About Us pages for more information about our collection of brands.

Location: Los Angeles

The intersection of media and technology is our sweet spot and we are fortunate to be headquartered at the epicenter of the creative economy – Los Angeles. This office houses many of our corporate functions and cross-functional teams tasked with creating exceptional experiences for our passionate communities.

Associate Producer (Chinese) – Mobile Games

As the Associate Producer (Chinese), this person will handle frontline communications with development teams for clear messaging on production and live operations of mobile games. This staff member will handle the life cycle of launched games as well as become a control tower for the titles they represent. They will also be charged with proofreading and approving localized content as well as communicating with the appropriate parties and vendors for said translations and keeping up with basic approval processes for assets and text.

Operational duties:

Developer communication
Cross functional internal communication with QA, CS, UA, Marketing, Operations, etc
Management of production schedules, in game events, notices, timelines, as well as other various and typical game operations tasks
Basic oversight of community / social media / customer service
Language Interpretation with external or overseas partners

Localization duties:

Translate and localize in-game text, user interface, and other game strings as needed
Manage quality and schedule of external localization vendors or by localization coordinators
Assist in planning localization projects and updating various localization process documents as projects are received and completed
Localize pitch documents and proposals to Asian developers and/or IP holders
Other duties as assigned

Requirements:

Fluency in Chinese and English
Project coordination skills
1-2 years’ work experience in video game development.
Understanding of the end-to-end localization process for games or software products
Excellent English written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills with the ability to cultivate productive and positive relationships with external partners, managers, and peers
BA/BS or 2+ years equivalent work experience
Working knowledge of performance metrics, KPI, and basic reporting

Advantages:

You have hands-on experience with project set-up, assignment, and tracking for complex projects
Experience working with game development teams in Asia
Familiarity with Japanese animation properties and jargon
Experience working with intellectual properties and approval processes
Experience working with 3rd party and foreign developers from relevant territories
Experience in localization, preferably as a Project Manager within the gaming or software industry

Benefits: Los Angeles

Competitive salary
“Use What You Need” time away from work policy
Medical, Dental, Vision, STD, LTD, and life insurance
Health care and dependent care FSA
401(k) plan with employer match
Support program for new parents
Fun, passionate and skilled co-workers

Questions about Crunchyroll’s hiring process? Please check out our FAQ

Please beware of recent scams to online job seekers. Those applying to our job openings will only be contacted directly from @crunchyroll.com email accounts. If you have any questions of the authenticity of a Crunchyroll job offer, please contact [email protected] before giving away any information.

About Crunchyroll

Crunchyroll connects anime and manga fans across 200+ countries and territories with the content and experiences they love. In addition to free ad-supported and subscription premium content, Crunchyroll serves the anime community across events, theatrical, games, consumer products, collectibles and manga publishing.

Anime fans have access to one of the largest collections of licensed anime through Crunchyroll and translated in multiple languages for viewers worldwide. Viewers can also access simulcasts — top series available immediately after Japanese broadcast.

The Crunchyroll app is available on over 15 platforms, including all gaming consoles.

Crunchyroll, LLC is an independently operated joint venture between US-based Sony Pictures Entertainment, and Japan’s Aniplex, a subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) Inc., both subsidiaries of Tokyo-based Sony Group Corporation.

Our Company Values

You’ll see these in action if we’re lucky enough to have you:

Courage – When we overcome fear, we enable our best selves.
Curiosity – We are curious, which is the gateway to empathy, inclusion, and understanding.
Service – We serve our community with humility, enabling joy and belonging for others.
Kaizen – We have a growth mindset committed to constant forward progress.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at Crunchyroll. Pursuant to applicable law, we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

#LifeAtCrunchyroll

Crunchyroll

Entertainment Careers

We Are BMF

November 29, 2022

$$$

Executive Producer – Events/Experiential

CA United States

Job Type:

Staff / Crew

Skills:

Videography

EXECUTIVE PRODUCER

Department: Production

Reports To: Regional Director of Production

Location: New York City or Los Angeles

Who we are

BMF is a collective of Cultural Engineers headquartered in NYC with offices in Miami, Los Angeles, and London. We are a global, full-service integrated marketing agency, specializing in event design & production, brand marketing, marketing strategy, sponsorships, talent management & bookings, publicity, and social media & influencer relations. We constantly strive to expand our offering as an agency.

Our growing and dynamic production team is now looking for a senior, experienced Executive Producer who will be responsible for producing large scale projects as well as managing production teams across multiple projects on behalf of the company’s top clients.

Does this sound like you?

As an Executive Producer at BMF, you possess in-depth experience strategizing and producing a wide range of events. You can manage multiple priority projects and can envision the big picture while working hands-on to create and implement tactical solutions. You are excellent at working with Account, Creative, and Strategy and teams to ensure logistical and budget feasibility. You have a keen eye for detail, time management, team coordination, problem-solving abilities, and budgeting. Most importantly, you will actively produce and oversee project teams while managing budgets of $1MM+. You will work with Account, Creative, and strategy teams to deliver and execute flawlessly across multiple regions and categories

What a day in the life will look like:

Departmental Management:

Provide production expertise and leadership – guide internal teams to anticipate and meet client goals/objectives, and foster organic growth
Contribute to day-to-day management of internal and freelance producers, ensure projects are on track and reconciled in a timely manner
Provide departmental administrative support including signing off on invoices, reviewing contracts, ensuring credit cards are reconciled, and budgets are closed
Assist in production staff planning for both long-term and freelance for all offices
Support overall budgeting process to ensure profitability
Provide coaching and managerial oversight to junior staff

Production:

Oversee and occasionally manage all facets of pre-event production, onsite management, and post-event breakdown.
Able to oversee multiple events from beginning to end, often occurring simultaneously.
Able to work closely with Account teams on client communications and deliverables
Create, manage, and oversee complex event budgets, from concept to reconciliation to ensure profitability.
Oversee venue scouting and selection.
Work with Creative and Client Services teams to ensure the client’s vision is being met.
Guide project team in the selection of high quality, vendors, including venue, catering, décor, fabrication, audio, lighting, photography and staffing.
Work with BMF talent and influencer department to secure talent and fulfill riders if needed.
Partnering with BMF Client Service leads to ensure successful client communications.
Responsible for ensuring teams create and maintain key event documents including budget, activation deck, recap deck, run of show, work back schedule, contact list.

Pre-Contract Production Support:

Contribute to the development of creative pitches/proposals ensuring budget and executional feasibility. When necessary, work hand in hand with a creative strategist to develop alternative concepts to fit within project confines.
Responsible for overseeing pricing out of creative concepts, and production budgets generation included in proposals.
Provide pre-contract departmental support including vendors; and participating in client pitch meetings.
Strong working knowledge of new, unique venues and cutting-edge vendors
Attends weekly brainstorms and RFP meetings.
Working with Talent and Digital departments in securing talent and fulfilling riders if needed.
Responsible for overseeing adherence and quality control to BMF processes and key event documents including budget, activation deck, recap deck, run of show, work back schedule, and contact list.

What you need to succeed at BMF:

You must have:

At least 8-10 years combined experience in Events or Experiential on the agency/contractor/client side
Five years minimum of experience as a Senior Producer in an agency setting and comfortable/measurable experience
producing budgets of $1mm and up
Exceptional budgeting skills.
Extraordinary organizational and management skills, strong ability to multitask.
Deep knowledge of cutting-edge venues, vendors and tastemakers.
Ability to develop and communicate experiential creative concepts and ideas.
Background in managing teams.
Strong mentoring capabilities.
Experience in staff planning against projects in the pipeline.
Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite and Keynote.
Bachelor’s Degree required.

What we bring to the table:

We want you to be part of a dynamic and creative team. We are vanguards in creative strategy and experts in leveraging emerging trends in popular culture, the arts, fashion and technology. We connect brands with media, influencers, artists and consumers to create today’s leading experiential activations in the market. And we’ve got the cred too: we were featured in Event Marketer’s IT List of Top 100 Event Agencies for the past four years.

We offer:

A fast-paced, creative and collaborative environment with supportive leadership.
A culture that values ideas and innovation from everyone at every level.
Ongoing professional development and training; we will empower you to take charge of your career path.
Strong benefits including health and dental and unlimited time off.

We Are BMF

Pole Dance America Championship

TV & Video

November 28, 2022

Cast Member

Georgia United States

Job Type:

Actor

Skills:

Acting Cheerleading

This is your time to shine!

Pole Dance America is currently casting talent for our national pole dancing competition on December 3, 2022, from 3pm to 9pm!

All ethnicities and nationalities are welcome. Must be 18 years or older to enter. We can’t wait to see your amazing skills and talent showcased on stage!

Would you like to be on the judge’s panel for this event?

Selected judges must have a background in pole dance, gymnastics, swimming, aerial arts, circus, or dance.

For more info, please contact Quincy Griggs at 770-635-8170 or [email protected]

Columbia University School of The Arts

Theater

November 28, 2022

$$

‘Fabulations, or the Re-Education of Undine’ Open Casting Call

New York United States

Job Type:

Actor

Skills:

‘Fabulations, or the Re-Education of Undine’ Open Casting Call

Casting Call: Fabulations, or the Re-Education of Undine

By Lynn Nottage

Directed byt Tanasia Lewis

Produced by Abigail Williams – Joseph

When

Rehearsals Begins: 1/5/2023
Tech Week 2/3/23-2/8/23
Performances: 2/9-2/12/2023 at the Theatre at Lenfest

Compensation: Stipend

Synopsis:

Fabulations, or the Re-Education of Undine is a social satire that follows successful and high-powered African-American publicist Undine Barnes Calles on an unexpected journey, after her smooth-talking but dishonest husband Herve disappears with her hard-earned fortune. Suddenly bankrupt, homeless and pregnant, Undine returns to her childhood home in Brooklyn’s Wait Whitman projects, where she reunites with the family and friends she attempted to leave behind. There she faces the realities of her new life, rediscovers where she came from, and gains a fresh and gains a fresh perspective on her priorities for her future.

This is a Columbia University directing Thesis Production, written under the guindance of Anne Bogart and Brain Kulick.

Roles:

An Ensemble for 4 women and 4 men who play multiple characters with the exception of the actress playing Undine.

Undine Barnes Calles (30’s Black, Female/Female Presenting): A high-powered executive at a PR firm who loses everything but gains a sense of perspective in the process; a self-made woman who endures with humor and honesty.
Flow/Others (20’s, Black, Male/Male Presenting): Undine’s brother, a hispter with a tatty Afro ang goatee, with the habit of speaking a bit too loudly. May also play Agent Duva, Rapper, Drug Dealer, Mover, Addict, Applicant.
Mother/Others (40’s+, Black, Female/Female Presenting): Undine’s Mother; works as a security guard at Long Island University. May also play Allision, Rosa, Inmate #2 and Applicant.
Accountant/Others (20’s, Any Race, Male/Male Presenting): An elegantly-clad man in his mid-thirties; may also play: Addict #1, Mover, Applicants, Doctor #2.
Herve/Guy (20+, Latino/Hispanic, Male/Male Presenting): Undine’s husband, an Argentinian con man with the grace of a flamenco dancer, Also plays Guy, a recovering addict making the most of sobriety; works as a security guard but preparing to take the fireman’s exam: may also play Lance.
Stephie/others (18+ Black/BIPOC, Female/Female Presenting): A spacey twenty-something; Undine’s assistant. May also Play: Counselor, Devora, Pregnant Woman and Applicant.
Father/Others (40+, Black Male/Male Presenting): Undine’s Father; works as a security guard at Long Island Unversity. May also play Yoruba Priest, Gregory, Applicant.
Grandma/Others (50+, Black Female/Female Presenting): Undine’s grandmother, all warmth and care. She came to New York with nothing, got her high school diploma, worked two jobs, and raised five beatufitul children. May also play: Doctor Khdair, Inmate #1, Case Worker.

COVID

Production will follow Columbia Unversity’s COVID-19 policies and protocols. All participants will be required to show proof of vaccination. In the performance, the actors will be maskless, and the audience members will have to show proof of vaccination. Health and safelty policies are consistently updated based on New York State, New York City and Columbia Unversity guidelines and are subject to revision at any time.

Feature Film

Kharmel Cochrane Casting

November 28, 2022

$$

Paramount Pictures Feature Film Casting American Actors

United Kingdom

Job Type:

Actor

Skills:

Paramount Pictures Feature Film Casting American Actors

Looking for: Young American Talent for a Feature Film

With flawless American accents ( no specific region)
Must have strong acting ability
Female – any ethnicities, age 5-7 years old
Male – Black, Aged 7-9 years old

November 28, 2022

$$

Mark Wahlberg’s ‘Holiday Road’ Casting For A College Campus Scene

Georgia United States

Job Type:

Extra

Skills:

Mark Wahlberg’s ‘Holiday Road’ Casting For A College Campus Scene

Casting for a College Campus Scene!

Types needed:
– College Students
– Parents/Alumni/Faculty
– University Police

FILMING DATE: Monday, Dec. 5

NOTE: Mandatory Covid Testing within 48 hrs of work dates, or PCR test accepted from other projects

Filming Location: Lawrenceville, GA
Rate: $88/8
Covid Test Pays: $50

NOT a vaccine mandated film.

November 28, 2022

$$

Mark Wahlberg’s ‘Holiday Road’ Casting For A Kick Boxing Gym Sene

Georgia United States

Job Type:

Extra

Skills: