Rachelle Lewis
Rachelle Lewis has been recruiting talent in the entertainment industry for over a decade. Before starting Rachelle Lewis Talent, she supervised talent procurement for Digital Domain, the 5-time Academy Award-winning visual effects company. During her tenure there, she and her team crewed three feature films including Clint Eastwood's Flags of Our Fathers, Ivan Reitman's Super Ex-Girlfriend, and Peter Hewitt's Zoom. She also worked closely with Digital Domain's Commercials Division, which is recognized worldwide as the most "awarded" visual effects studio in commercials and music videos.
Previous to Digital Domain, Rachelle worked for Sony Pictures Imageworks, where she specialized in finding and placing animators and other digital character artists for feature films including Open Season, The Chronicles of Narnia, Surf's Up, Monster House and Ghost Rider. She has also been on staff at DreamWorks Feature Animation where she procured talent for such animated feature films as Shark Tale, and Over the Hedge. Rachelle started her career in television animation, working for many years as Director of Recruitment at Klasky Csupo - best known for its Emmy Award-winning TV series Rugrats and Wild Thornberrys.
Rachelle travels throughout Europe and North America lecturing at art schools, universities, festivals and industry events. She also consults with academic institutions and programs, helping schools develop their animation and VFX curricula. She currently resides in Santa Monica, California.