About this Event
The 3rd Annual NYU Sports Film Festival will kick-off with a WME speaker panel featuring agents Carlos Fleming and Benjamin Simoné! Their discussion on sports media and marketing will be moderated by Professor Gina Antoniello.
Date | Friday, April 21st
Time | 3:00-4:00pm – doors open at 2:45pm
Location | NYU Production Lab (16 Washington Pl)
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About Benjamin Simoné: Benjamin Simoné is a partner at WME. His roster includes Serena Williams, David Beckham, Christian Pulisic, Marcus Samuelsson, W. Kamau Bell, Rachel Maddow, and Fox Sports Analyst Stu Holden. Clients in the documentary space include Sacha Jenkins (Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues, Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics and Men), and Yon Motskin (Dirty Money, The Family); and he represents production companies Lightbox (two-time Oscar winners for Man on Wire and Searching for Sugarman), Part 2 Pictures, Vice Studios, Spoke Studios, Wheelhouse, eOne, and Boardwalk. Prior to joining WME, Simoné was an A&R Director at Columbia Records. Although the majority of his work is in Non-Scripted Television, he frequently works across music with clients including Questlove, Janelle Monae, Joey Badass, Teyana Taylor, Macklemore, and SZA. Simoné currently resides in New York City.
About Carlos Fleming: As a Department Head of WME Basketball, Carlos Fleming oversees career management, marketing strategy, recruiting and staffing for the department. WME Basketball established itself as a full service basketball agency in 2021 in a joint venture with Bill Duffy and Associates (BDA). As a result of this partnership, the agency now represents over 60 NBA clients including Luka Doncic, Joel Embiid, DeAndre Ayton, Jimmy Butler, RJ Barrett, Scottie Barnes, Candace Parker, Sabrina Ionescu, Anfernee Simons and others. Throughout his career Carlos has represented the number one tennis player in the world (Venus Williams); the number one NFL Draft Pick (Cam Newton); the number one American professional male soccer player (Christian Pulisic); the number one professional female golfer (Michelle Wie) and the top-rated NCAA Men's basketball player (Chet Holmgren). Carlos played collegiate tennis at Kansas University where he was an All-American. He started his career at IMG as an agent in the tennis division where he represented clients including Venus and Serena Williams, James Blake, Nick Kyrgios, Jo-Wilfred Tsonga and others.
About Gina Antoniello: Gina Antoniello, a sports communications executive with over a decade of experience in the field, joined New York University as Assistant Clinical Professor of Sport Management in August 2020. Antoniello last served as Head of Communications for the XFL's New York Guardians, where she was the primary architect of the communications strategy, leading both business and football communications and player development programs. Prior to joining the ranks of professional football, Antoniello held leadership roles in the NBA, with both the Brooklyn Nets and Golden State Warriors organizations. She has also appeared on national and regional network television as a courtside reporter for G League basketball games where she earned the sideline spot on broadcasts for ESPN, NBA TV, YES Network, and MSG Network from 2015-2019. She brings eight years of teaching experience to NYU, after serving as an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University's MS of Sport Management program, of which she is also an alumna. Gina received her undergraduate degree from Wake Forest University in Communications.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
NYU Production Lab, 16 Washington Place, New York, United States
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