46 min
UTA Agent on What it Takes to be in the Representation Business The Brooklyn Boardroom with J. Christopher
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- TV & Film
United Talent Agency agent, Dean Fluker, gives his perspective on the professional expectations of being a talent agent, the current television/film content market, and the challenge of packaging literary projects with talent in a Covid-19 environment.
Dean Fluker is a Talent Agent at the leading global talent and entertainment company, United Talent Agency (UTA). He represents a large cross-section of artists. He began his career in entertainment as a concert talent buyer for the Student Commission on Programming Entertainment at the University of Iowa. He was also a trainee at ICM Partners and an agent at Jeff Berg’s Resolution before joining UTA. Prior to entertainment, Fluker started his professional career in politics as a Field Organizer and Youth Vote Director on the 2008 presidential campaign for then-Senator Barack Obama. In 2009, he joined the Obama Administration as a political appointee, where he served for 3 years, working on President Obama’s healthcare bill and First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! Initiative against childhood obesity.
TIMECODED DISCUSSION THEMES
6:39 Developing Client Opportunities in TV - Actively casting projects & looking at material
9:24 The Talent Agency Structure - Talent & literary departments create the foundation
11:21 Talent Agent: Visionary & Entrepreneur - You have to have a short term POV and a long term POV
16:23 Remember: Respect. Empower. Include. - Don't do anything you wouldn't want to see on the cover of Time magazine
25:17 Core Principal: Passion - Passion about what you do and who you represent
34:03 The Economics of Covid-19 - Talent's value will not change
43:44 Staying Relentless, Humble & Hungry - Sometimes you need to slow down and "read the room"
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United Talent Agency agent, Dean Fluker, gives his perspective on the professional expectations of being a talent agent, the current television/film content market, and the challenge of packaging literary projects with talent in a Covid-19 environment.
Dean Fluker is a Talent Agent at the leading global talent and entertainment company, United Talent Agency (UTA). He represents a large cross-section of artists. He began his career in entertainment as a concert talent buyer for the Student Commission on Programming Entertainment at the University of Iowa. He was also a trainee at ICM Partners and an agent at Jeff Berg’s Resolution before joining UTA. Prior to entertainment, Fluker started his professional career in politics as a Field Organizer and Youth Vote Director on the 2008 presidential campaign for then-Senator Barack Obama. In 2009, he joined the Obama Administration as a political appointee, where he served for 3 years, working on President Obama’s healthcare bill and First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! Initiative against childhood obesity.
TIMECODED DISCUSSION THEMES
6:39 Developing Client Opportunities in TV - Actively casting projects & looking at material
9:24 The Talent Agency Structure - Talent & literary departments create the foundation
11:21 Talent Agent: Visionary & Entrepreneur - You have to have a short term POV and a long term POV
16:23 Remember: Respect. Empower. Include. - Don't do anything you wouldn't want to see on the cover of Time magazine
25:17 Core Principal: Passion - Passion about what you do and who you represent
34:03 The Economics of Covid-19 - Talent's value will not change
43:44 Staying Relentless, Humble & Hungry - Sometimes you need to slow down and "read the room"
CONNECT
https://www.instagram.com/bklynboardroom/ https://twitter.com/BKLYNBOARDROOM https://www.brooklynboardroom.com https://www.facebook.com/brooklynboardroom/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/industryesquire/
46 min