WEISMAN WORLDWIDE ENTERTAINMENT MANAGES A SELECT GROUP OF INNOVATIVE FILM/TV DIRECTORS, PRODUCERS, ARTISTS AND PROJECTS
A SAMPLE OF OUR MANAGEMENT ROSTER INCLUDES:
Sam Lipman-Stern
Sam Lipman-Stern is an Executive Producer and Director with a passion for documentary storytelling and expertise in creating a wide range of video content from documentary and branded to live video and 360/VR. In 2012, Sam started Directing and Producing his Live from the Streets series and other content for VICE Media, while working as full time staff at the company. A few years later he was hired to develop Rolling Stone Magazine’s video department as a Director/Producer and was successful in creating viral hits receiving millions of views for the company. At Rolling Stone Sam worked on videos featuring artists and celebrities like Rick Ross, Slash, Charlie Puth, Keith Richards, Snoop Dogg, Shawn Mendes, French Montana, the cast of Jackass and many more. In addition to VICE and Rolling Stone, Lipman-Stern’s client roster includes Adidas, MTV, Microsoft, Interscope Records, The New York Times, Esquire, Porsche, Apple, LG, Honda, Mountain Dew, The NBA, Harley Davidson, Yamaha, TEDx, Sea Shepherd, PBS, The United Nations and many others. Most recently, Sam Directed and Executive Produced the Forbes documentary series “Rap Mentors” which was released summer of 2021.
Valentina Pereda
Former Obama White House alum turned documentary filmmaker, Valentina Pereda lives between El Salvador and Los Angeles covering security, migration, and human rights in the Northern Triangle and Mexico. She also shot and produced a three-part video series on Venezuela's current crisis, covering mass food shortages, state violence, and electoral fraud. She has shot and produced videos for The Economist, The Intercept, CBS News, among others. She is currently filming her first feature-documentary on the disarmament and reintegration of former 18 street gang members in San Salvador through religion. Formerly, Valentina lived in Washington, DC where she served in President Obama's communications team in the Administration and the White House, and worked on Central American migration and security, US-Latin America relations, the normalization of relations between the U.S. and Cuba, the Colombian peace process, and others. She has an International Relations degree from the George Washington University, where she later returned to study documentary filmmaking.
Scott Shiffman
has been fascinated by telling stories with pictures since he was a kid, and getting the chance to make a career out of it was just the icing on the cake. Even on a bad day, he'll tell you he's got the best job in the world. Scott got his first taste of a real production company while he was still in high school and he's hung on to that taste ever since. He says that there's no avoiding that feeling once you know the satisfaction of creating and sharing your work with others. Scott carries many years of production experience around with him as his tool kit. Scott was a production executive at Disney overseeing productions at Miramax and Dimension Films. For more than 25 years he has tuned his craft. Scott has overseen or produced dozens films and several television series including “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation” and “CSI:Miami”.
Highlight Project:
Live from the Streets
Live from the Streets is a video series created by director Sam Lipman-Stern (Forbes, VICE, Rolling Stone) and producer Mr. Green (Snoop Dogg, Westside Gunn) most known for airing on VICE's music channel Noisey and for collaborations with Mountain Dew’s Green Label, LG, Apple and more. The series, follows Green globally on a journey collecting audio while learning about local music and culture. Green then takes the various collected sounds (the samples) and transforms them into unique beats that represent the places explored in the episode. After the beat is created, Green combines local artists with industry leaders (from A$AP Ferg to KRS One) to create a fully produced track with powerful lyrics. Finally, at the end of each episode, Green revisits the people he met and sampled on his journey to play them the final track; oftentimes receiving incredibly emotional responses from people who have never heard themselves on recorded audio. The final episodes are a unique music travel series that bring the viewer into an incredible world of music, culture, art and end with a music video from the journey.
DAVE MCMAHON
Dave McMahon’s diverse professional experience ranges from pre-production, stereo compositing, 3d projection mapping, and immersive VR/AR experiences. His career has taken him to lengthy stays on sets directed by Steven Spielberg for "Ready Player One," Jon Favreau for Disney’s "The Jungle Book," and countless hours polishing James Camerons 3d conversion of "Titanic" doing stereo compositing, and the same for Joss Whedons film "The Avengers.”
He spent months on and off set working on AAA video game titles including "Rise of the Tomb Raider" by Cyrstal Dynamics, "Infamous: Second Son" by Sucker Punch Productions, and "Quantum Break" by Remedy Games.
He has a passion for creating artwork outside of the digital world and has been contracted to hand paint exciting murals for the FX Networks tv series SNOWFALL, and for the over the top record release party for Chris Brown’s album "Heart Break on a Full Moon.”
