What's Sync Community?
Sync Community is the LARGEST and #1 music licensing e-learning hub/online training platform, built for music creators to connect with the sync world and to succeed in licensing their music into tv, film, advertising, and video games.
This robust online platform provides it's 10,000+ music creator members access to weekly and monthly lessons, courses, mentorship, coaching, occasional placement opportunities to pitch your music to, networking opportunities, access to TOP music supervisors, industry experts, newsletter & industry updates, discount off Sync Con Conferences and more! The community brings this all under the umbrella of our monthly memberships.
In today’s music industry, working smart means exploring and taking advantage of new revenue streams beyond the standard of album sales and gigs. With the right tools, training, knowledge, information, people, and networking, sync and licensing can be an effective source of additional income for music creators. This is what the Sync Community offers to you.
Who is Sync Con?
Sync Con is the #1 music licensing conference in North America, connecting the dots between music creators and industry giants behind decision making for music use in film, tv, advertising and video games.
More information about Sync Con? Visit www.synccon.com
SYNC CON CONFERENCES
Past Speakers from Sync Con Hollywood | New York | Atlanta include:
Eric Kalver
KEY NOTE SPEAKER
Music Supervisor, Activision Blizzard.
Eric wears multiple hats in the industry. He's the music supervisor at Activision Blizzard, working on games such as Call of Duty, Destiny, and Guitar Hero. He is a published arranger, a composer, and a regularly gigging drummer playing in multiple groups that perform all around the Los Angeles area
Brian J. Miller | NFL Networks
KEY NOTE SPEAKER
Music Supervisor, Activision Blizzard.
Brian is the Music Supervisor for NFL Network, supervising and coordinating music content for assigned NLFN television shows and NFLMedia content
Janet Wade | TURNER
KEY NOTE SPEAKER
Janet currently works for Turner in Atlanta, Georgia, where she negotiates licensed music deals for the promotions and marketing campaigns for Turner’s entertainment networks including TNT, TBS, TCM, TruTV, Cartoon Network, Turner Sports and Bleacher Report, as well as oversees the clearance of rights and licensing of music for some of the series on the TBS and TruTV networks, Internet programs on Bleacher Report and sports broadcasts under Turner Sports, including NBA Playoffs, NBA All Star, NCAA March Madness, Major League Baseball Postseason and E-Sports.
Jamar Chess
Sunflower Entertainment / Spirit Music Latino
Jamar Chess, Billboard named “30 Under 30 Power Players” prominent works include Spiderman-Into The Spider Verse. and the last four seasons of the original Netflix series Narcos, and has licensed over 100 songs from Colombia’s most famous music catalogs. As co-founder of the Sunflower Entertainment Group a boutique publishing & distribution company specializing in Latin music. Jamar’s creative projects have successfully introduced independent and classic Latin recordings to a mainstream audience.
Morgan Hutcheson
Music Supervisor
Creative consulting and music licensing for film, television and brands/advertisements
Works include: Eight Grade, Ameriprise Ad, Ladders, and more.
Carolyn Richardson | Fox Corporation
Manager, Music Clearance
Oversees music clearance and confirmations for all of Marketing at Fox. She is also the founder of Music 4 Scenes, a music consulting firm, and a member and The Television Academy. Her past experience includes working for Entertainment Tonight and The Insider as Music Supervisor.
Chase Butters | Deutsch Advertising Agency
Music Supervisor
Chase Butters is an award winning Music Supervisor from Los Angeles with over 7+ in Music / Advertising. Clients include Hulu, Taco Bell, Target, VW, Nintendo, Zillow, Spotify, Tile and DPSG. After navigating through the music industry he ultimately found his passion in combining music and content. Specialities include over seeing all music initiatives across multiple clients, including Music Supervision, Music Licensing, Creative Searches, Talent Negotiations, Live Booking Etc.
Dez Davis | Deutsch Advertising Agency
Music Supervisor
Clients: Taco Bell, Dr. Pepper, 7up, Snapple, Zillow, Tile, Nintendo, Canada Dry, 7 Eleven, Bush Beer, Draft Kings, Uber, Motts, Guitar Center, Spotify, Budweiser
David Leon | Disney ABC Television Group
Music Supervisor & Composer
David provides music supervision and also original music composition for two television series: The Emmy winning series "Sea Rescue," on Hulu and "The Wildlife Docs," on CW Networks. David has helped create and reinforce the signature sound of some of the most recognizable brands like X-Men, Woody Woodpecker, Captain America, Peanuts and Superman. As Owner, Sound Mind Music, some of his movie credits with Sound Mind Music include music supervising film titles for Marvel such as Invincible Iron Man, Ultimate Avengers and Thor: Tales of Asgard. Sound Mind Music is a full service music production company, which provides music composition, music supervision and consulting for Warner Brothers, Disney, NBCUniversal and more.
Justin Feldman | Music Supervisor
HTGR (Hit The Ground Running
Justin works at Hit The Ground Running, Inc. (HTGR), a full service, L.A. based, independent music supervision company. Justin works on a wide variety of films & TV shows such as Silicon Valley (HBO), Wu-Tang Clan: Of Mics & Men (Showtime), The Last Dance (ESPN), Untitled Lil Dicky Project (FX), The First Purge (Blumhouse) & Child's Play (MGM).
Justin also works at HTGR's sister company PUSHER, a firm that specializes in sync licensing, bespoke composition & label/publishing services. PUSHER represents a roster of artists, composers & producers for creative advertising in the motion picture industry.
Sarah Ponder | Music Director
APM Music
She currently works in-house as a Music Director at APM, the world's leading creative music house and production music library with over 885000 tracks, where all of her passions aligned by allowing her to explore and cultivate her love of music and media. Throughout the past decade she has worked on the creative side of the music business via Music Supervision and Music Direction in television, entertainment marketing and independent features.
Nicole Prutch | Lussier
Music Supervisor
Nicole Prutch runs the music department at TV marketing agency, Lussier, in Burbank, California. She overseas all aspects of audio, including TV promos for USA, ABC, A&E, Amazon, Freeform and Discovery networks.
Some recent music supervision highlights include promos and trailers for Marvel’s Cloak & Dagger (Freeform), Station 19 (ABC), The Good Dr. (ABC), The Purge (USA), and Treadstone (USA). Nicole also worked on six seasons of Death in Paradise (BBC One).
Morenike Joela Evans | Director
Morenike Joela is a Director, Writer and Creative Executive Producer who recently directed an episode of the hit Disney series BUNK’d and the new Netflix series “Family Reunion,” a multi-cam comedy for Netflix created by Meg DeLoatch starring Loretta Devine, Richard Roundtree and Tia Mowry. She also directed “Deadly Dispatch” a drama/suspense feature for TV One starring Tamala Jones and Dominique Perry She transitioned to scripted television after producing entertainment and cultural lifestyle programming for MTV News, BET, NBC,TNT, OWN,TV One and PBS.
Jennifer Smith | Music Supervisor
Rat Dance Party
She started her career being part of the music team for major network shows such as Dancing With The Stars, America’s Best Dance Crew, The Ellen Show, and the comic book cult film “Bad Kids Go To Hell”.She joined ABC’s music team on American Idol Season 1. She quickly branched out by launching her own company, “Rat Dance Party”, working on multiple films and TV shows including Tara Reid’s new film “American Christmas”, MTV’s “Cribs”, “Diary”, and much more. Jennifer is a member of the Television Academy and the Recording Academy.
and many more!
Reels and Highlights
from Past Sync Con Conferences