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Award-Winning Production Company Caravan Adds Thom Blackburn as Executive Producer

17/06/2021

Award-Winning Production Company Caravan Adds Thom Blackburn as Executive Producer

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Brie Clayton June 17, 2021

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An exciting new chapter is beginning for full-service, award-winning commercial production company Caravan, where commercial/ brand storytelling expert Thom Blackburn has just come onboard in the role of Executive Producer. The announcement was made by company Founder/Executive Producer Jon Muedder and Partner/Head of Creative Bernardo Marentes.

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Since launching in 2012, Caravan has built an extremely impressive track record for high-profile productions. Regularly featured among the annual American Advertising Award winners locally, regionally, and nationally, the company's most recent standout projects include Seagate's The Cloud, which brought home multiple GOLD Awards and the Best of Video Special Award, as well as a groundbreaking brand film for Arrival (NASDAQ: ARVL), the Charlotte-based global company creating electric vehicles with game-changing technologies. Other noteworthy clients include The New York Times, HBO, Lending Tree, and Bridgestone, to name but a few. Notably, Muedder and Marentes also own and operate Charlotte Film Rentals (https://charlottefilmrentals.com), one of the region's leading providers of top-of-the-line cameras, lenses, support, and lighting equipment for the production industry.

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We've known and collaborated with Thom since Caravan's beginning, Marentes added. He's supported us through many of the steps we've taken to grow Caravan, and bringing him onboard kicks off an exciting new chapter for our team.

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Caravan obviously produces beautiful films, and it also stands out in managing the entire process, from concept phase through planning, execution and ultimately, finishing, Blackburn explained. This speaks to the company's incredibly strong foundation and the emphasis on maintaining a culture of excellence.

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