Beyond Deadlines: A Creative Producer's Chat - with Ruby Valls

In the world of creative production, producers stand at the nexus of innovation, creating important connections amongst stakeholders.

Joining Ruby Valls in this episode's chat is James Pullin, a seasoned senior account director at Human After All, whose passion for people and communication guides his approach to production. Together, they unravel the intricacies of fostering collaboration, overcoming challenges, and harnessing the power of synergy in creative projects.

Production is, in many ways, still a very broad career without common paths to follow through. For better or worse, professionals generally fall into production after some time working in areas that require some of the same skills production does, or even fall out of production into other related careers. Why not take advantage of the intersections and differences amongst those professions in order to leverage producers' practices?

We are officially starting our second season! In our very first episode of this season, Ruby talks to Marci Selsberg, an artist representative with +30 years of career in the creative industry. Starting, as many of us, outside of production, Marci shares what she learned in her producer years and how those led her to become a creative rep. We talk through interchangeable skills and experiences that are important in both careers and the major take aways she had through those career shifts.

In this special episode recorded during the BITBANG 9 International Festival, Ruby Valls talks to Sophie Koko, artist and animation director coming from London, Joe Cappa, director and animator coming from Los Angeles, and Bárbara Cerro, director and founder of BITBANG, about the reality of producing your own independent projects.

En esto episodio especial grabado directamente del BITBANG 9, Ruby Vall habla con Ailin Estrella, jefa de producción en Rudo Company, Lu Roude, productora independiente, y Juan Zaramella, director y animador independiente, sobre la experiencia de producción creativa y animación en América Latina.

Allowing experimentation to flourish professionally and personally can be a huge change driver. For this Beyond Deadline's guest, exploring creativity and the production of a memorable experience in her personal life really brought a shift to her career.

In this episode, Ruby Valls talks to Meghan Kotlanger, Director of Content at Advoc8, an experiencial agency from DC. Meghan tells us all about how diving into craft and creativity led her to produce memorable experiences in her career.

There's no defined path for a producer's career but one thing is certain: the amount of skills and experiences you have to develop will probably give you a head start if you wish to start a business.

In this episode of Beyond Deadlines: A Creative Producer's Chat, our host Ruby Valls meets with Paul Geffre, independent producer and co-founder of Light Iron, a post facility part of Panavision. He shares with us a bit of his background in production and how he became an entrepreneur in the field.

Many people get to creative production by works of destiny. Often they fall in love with production while pursuing other personal or professional interests. What is this special magnetism that keeps fascinating people into becoming creative producers?

In this episode of Beyond Deadlines: A Creative Producer's Chat, our host Ruby Valls meets with Lea Wülferth, partner and executive producer at YouTooCanWoo, an audio production company. During this chat, Lea shares with us how she discovered she wanted to be a producer and all the experiences she had along the way that brought her together with childhood friends to open YouTooCanWoo.

How amazing is it to listen to two friends talk about a shared passion? 💞

In this Beyond Deadlines episode we are going all into the animation production realm. As an animation producer herself, our host Ruby Valls invited her good friend, Esteban Cuenca, to talk about the creative freedom and passion they found in working with animation (either in original productions or advertising).

Whenever we think of producers in the creative industry, the first areas of work that comes to mind are generally film and music, right? But there's another huge segment of the audio visual industry where producers can shine: gaming.

In this episode of Beyond Deadlines: A Creative Producer's Chat, our host Ruby Valls meets with Brian Beebe, a production supervisor at Valorant, from Riot Games. He shares his experiences with character, narrative and premium content production, among others and how did he get to work with video games.

In this first episode of Beyond Deadlines we invited two amazing professionals from the Psyop team to demystify the role of the producer in the creative industry. Our host, Ruby Valls, talks to Amanda Miller and Neysa Horsburgh about the creative part of working as a producer, how one can leave their mark in an original project and the true core of creative productions: the people. 

The role of a producer in the creative industry can be quite different depending on the segment you're working on, the size of the company, and your level of experience. It was looking into those infinite possibilities that we gathered some of the greatest professionals out there to talk more about the world of creative production.

Ruby Valls will be your host here at Beyond Deadlines, a space where we navigate through the wonders and challenges of working as a producer in the creative industry.  Welcome, grab a seat and join us through all these conversations.