Talent Agency

ICONS CONSULTING: TALENT AGENCY

At ICONS INTERNATIONAL, the specialists in emerging markets and innovation, we have the strategic role of bringing together the “Demand” (TV & Film production, Events, Sports events, Music events and much more) and the “Offer” (actresses, actors, authors, film directors, musicians, models, producers, professional athletes, writers and other people in various entertainment businesses). We are well established and our success is determined by networks upon networks of contacts as well as having access to professional casting services. Many of these casting resources are not available to the general public.

We are the talent agent, or booking agent, “par excellence” that has already been chosen by leading companies and have found many jobs for authors, film directors, musicians, models, producers, professional athletes, writers, actors and actresses interested in working theatrically (stage, film or television) as well as in commercials.

We engage the “talents” (actors, models, voice-over artists, etc.) and the “buyers” (casting directors, advertising agencies, TV & Film production companies, photographers and direct clients, etc.).

Our major role is to promote talents to the buyers, submitting talents that have the appropriate age, race, sex, look and talent that the buyer is seeking for his/her project. We submit actor’s head-shots or the model’s composite card or portfolio to buyers, organize auditions (the talent is the only one who can get the job through the audition) and coordinate the details of wardrobe and directions as well as negotiate the contract or pay.

In cohesion to our company policies in the matter of transparency, we anticipate that for our work we do not take charges for representation but negotiate case by case a commission that may vary from 10 to 30% of the gross contracted amount, depending on the profile of the candidates and the job to be done.

However we may recommend steps that will cost money, especially when talent is starting out. At the first introduction we may suggest new photos, promo-video’s, training, test auditions and casting calls, professional acting classes, get you involved in some acting at the local scene or community drama club / theatre (getting a little experience under your belt), workshops or other promotional solutions for attracting good contacts for new talent. We have selected the best professionals (best photographers) or shots to make into head-shots and much more.

Apart from the above direct expenses, if we incur and cover upfront costs, over and above our contracted commission (travel expenses or other), we will ask to be reimbursed for these last expenses only after the talent begins work.

We are always seeking for Acting Roles (Cast) and associated support roles:

  • Male Lead Actors
  • Female Lead Actors
  • Actresses
  • Actors
  • Extras
  • Dancers
  • Stunt performers
  • Stunt Doubles
  • Stand-ins
  • Narrators
  • Presenters

… and support people for Actors:

  • Dialogue coach
  • Choreographer
  • Stunt coordinator
  • Make Up
  • Hair Stylist
  • Wardrobe
  • Costume Designer
  • Personal Assistant

At ICONS INTERNATIONAL, the specialists in emerging markets and innovation, we will be glad to present you the opportunities and help you to be successful in this fascinating business.

Please forward your inquiries to info@iconsfze.com . We will be glad to inform and assist you.

We wish the best for you and hope to see you on the big screen soon.

 

Legend TV & Film Production

PRESS RELEASE:
ICONS INTERNATIONAL, the specialists in emerging markets and innovation, is the Official Agent of “Legend” – TV & Film Production.

To publicize this new agreement, ICONS will promote the production of a one hour television documentary, filmed in Full High Definition (HDTV) that will showcase the Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah. For more information please visit the RAK Television Documentary.

Legend Film & Television production company is a specialist communications & media production company servicing both the corporate and global film and television markets .

A British company living in Dubai! We put up with the heat, you get the experience that we have built up working with the worlds top TV Channels, Advertising Agencies and Blue Chip Corporations.

Our people started filming in the 70’s and 80’s, when TV cameras had valves in them and took half the day to warm up. We shot on 35mm film in the depths of Siberia and the badlands of Mexico. Twelve years ago we got to know High Definition cameras (HD cameras first appeared in Japan in the early 80’s) and nowadays we mix modern HD cameras with 35mm film lenses giving true movie quality to our projects.

Legend Film & Television has an Award winning team which have decades of quality production experience and have successfully delivered assignments for the likes of the BBC, Discovery Channel, MTV, etc. All of the filming is undertaken utilising leading HD (High Definition) cameras and technologies thus ensuring that your message is delivered with stunning clarity visually, aurally and creatively. The quality of their production work is further enhanced by having one of the UK’s leading Executive Producers as the head of all aspects of production and creativity.

The following provides a brief insight into some of the offerings Legend Film & Television Production can deliver to you by ensuring more effective utilization of digital film media in positively communicating your message to your corporate audience. Clearly this is not exhaustive and is purely limited by the creativity we engender in a clients mind and vision:

  • We will profitably raise your profile within the markets you currently operate, or wish to operate in the future, by helping you to maximize the potential of:
  1. Corporate digital media presentations
  2. Embedded digital media in corporate web-sites
  3. TV Commercials
  4. Viral Marketing
  • We will help you communicate productively with all of your stakeholders; both internally and externally, thus enabling more effective management of their individual needs and wants:
  1. Vision & Mission
  2. Corporate Objectives
  3. Induction Training
  4. Health, Safety & Environment Training
  5. Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
  • We enable you to deliver effective and positive communication with all of your stakeholder audience and permit you to highlight areas such as:
  1. The detail of the Landscape & Eco-system within which you operate.
  2. Customer Satisfaction – what it looks like!
  3. Supplier Relationships
  4. Shareholder Relationships
  5. Investor Relationships – making your company come alive!
  • We are able to support you in the development of unique tools, for example, mapping and visualizing your supply chain – Meet the delivery team!
  • We will also have many opportunities for sponsoring documentaries, films and events; this will include opportunities for Product Placement.

I hope the above will be of interest to you, if you wish to discuss and expand what we are able to do for you please do not hesitate to contact ICONS at the following e-mail address info@iconsfze.com . Hopefully we will have the pleasure of meeting you in the near future.

 

RAK Television Documentary

Ras Al Khaimah (RAK)
TELEVISION DOCUMENTARY

Worldwide release
One Hour
High Definition (HD)

Objective: To attract more people to Ras Al Khaimah!

How:
1. By increasing the number of tourists (both staying and visiting)
2. By increasing the number of business visitors (including investors)
3. By attracting commerce and industry to establish themselves in Ras Al Khaimah
4. By encouraging take-up of residency
5. By enabling global exposure of the benefits of Ras Al Khaimah

Why:
Figures produced by Ras Al Khaimah say that the current population is around 200,000. RAK is looking to increase this to 750,000 over the next ten years; within this number RAK expects to have around 350,000 high net worth permanent residents.

Who:

How Icons can support Ras Al Khaimah in ensuring effective delivery of the Emirates objective.

1. ICONS will produce a one hour television documentary, filmed in Full High Definition (HDTV) that will showcase the Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah. The documentary will include the following subjects but not be limited to:

  • History
  • People
  • Culture
  • Geography
  • Wildlife & Environment
  • Economy
  • Developments
  • The Future

2. ICONS will market the documentary to a number of major TV Channels and Film Distributors around the world, including but not limited to:

  • American and Pan Global TV Networks (ie: Discovery Channel HD, NBC, TLC)
  • UK and European TV Networks
  • Middle East and Asia TV Channels
  • China
  • Australasia

Ras Al Khaimah makes for a fascinating television documentary subject with its diversity, history and young, energetic Ruler together with its dynamic ambitions for sustainable and balanced growth. Much effort has been undertaken to raise the worlds awareness of the Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah and the success of these efforts are clearly bearing fruit, it is now time to elevate those efforts to even greater levels and enable a global audience to experience the sheer beauty and dynamism that is Ras Al Khaimah and putting the Emirate where it truly belongs on the world tourism map.

A personal story

Shaikh Saud Bin Saqr Al Qasimi, Ruler of the Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah

This is a documentary for the western world, a documentary that shows not just the region that is Ras Al Khaimah, but also shows the people, the culture and the developing opportunities that are Ras Al Khaimah. A very important part of the story is having the most important family of Ras Al Khaimah, the dynamic ruler Shaikh Saud Bin Saqr Al Qasimi tell us his own story, to show us Ras Al Khaimah in his own words and share his own personal views of his country
and his people. To go out with our camera crew and meet the people who live and work in this very special place.

  • We will showcase the amazing natural beauty of Ras Al Khaimah from the air, land and sea; including below the waves!
  • The documentary will take time to explore the stunning beauty of the Hajar Mountains.
  • Ras Al Khaimah is also famous for it’s underwater diving and we will send underwater High Definition (HD) cameras down to one of the most famous wreck sites just off the coast.

Click to find out more about the Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah!


Social Commitments – CSR

Employees

ICONS International people are critical to its success. The Group motivates its employees and promotes involvement by making the most of diversity, supporting professional development, and ensuring safe, healthy working conditions.

Diversity

Diversity underpins our history, culture and identity. That’s why the first commitment in Our Principles of Responsibility states that: ” ICONS International employees can all express their cultural diversity and are managed without discrimination”. We know that employees who feel respected are more motivated and effective. For this reason, we’ve taken measures to promote gender equality in the workplace, age diversity, jobs for the disabled and minority hiring. We take action at three levels: recruitment, job opportunities and career development. Our goal is to make diversity a strength, an advantage and a lever for developing creativity and competitiveness.

Health / Safety

In designing our policies, ICONS International adopted the World Health Organization’s definition of health: “Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity”. For ICONS International, health is a challenge shared by all of its team members and partners. The Group also considers that insurance coverage is a crucial lever for maintaining a high level of good health. It believes in deploying local approaches to achieve its goal of being the health benchmark in all host countries.

Wholesale suppliers

Sustainable development holds companies up to stakeholders’ expectations. As a Global Compact signatory, ICONS International takes sustainable development issues into account when selecting suppliers.

The Group encourages suppliers and their subcontractors to join the Global Compact themselves. By asking suppliers to meet its direct requirements and make a public commitment, the Group exposes them to the principles of sustainable development.

This approach also reflects ICONS International’s commitment to promoting human rights, in accordance with Global Compact Principle 1 (Businesses should support and respect the protection of internationally proclaimed human rights) and Principle 2 (Businesses should make sure that they are not complicit in human rights abuses).

Corporate Social Responsibility

At ICONS INTERNATIONAL, the specialists in emerging markets and innovation, our goal of CSR is to embrace responsibility for the company’s actions and encourage a positive impact through its activities on the environment, consumers, employees, communities, stakeholders and all other members of the public sphere. Furthermore, we proactively promote the public interest by encouraging community growth and development. We voluntarily eliminate practices that harm the public sphere, regardless of legality. For ICONS International CSR is the deliberate inclusion of public interest into corporate decision-making, and the honoring of a triple bottom line (TBL): people, planet, profit. Our organization is driven by ethical and moral principles in all our business environment.

Dedicated to Youth

At ICONS INTERNATIONAL, the specialists in emerging markets and innovation, we are very close to community’s events and youth. We take to heart and treasure young boys and girls initiatives in a very delicate phase of their lives by supporting and promoting youth and school activities.

In this great venture, we are but just a drop in the ocean! It is for this reason that we greatly appreciate your consideration for helping us in this very important Social Mission.

We thank you for taking your time in further reading about the projects that we promote and are grateful for any financial support and contributions that you will devote to our young friends and students projects .

World Challenge

ICONS INTERNATIONAL is strongly ingaged in supporting the World Challenge school initiative aimed at:

  • Supporting and sustaining RAK Educational Programs
  • Promote RAK in the World
  • Help and support humanitarian activities for communities in need
  • Improve RAK students education and experience
  • Invest in a better adult community for the future
  • Decreasing world poverty around the world

A great opportunity and learning curve for the students and a great humanitarian act. It will help make a better world for tomorrow bringing help to children in need whilst forging our future adults.

Join us in helping to support this initiative by making a contribution:




We thank you in advance for your kind support and contribution and look forward to sharing our experience with you after the events.

 For alternative payment methods please send an e-mail request to: info@iconsfze.com.

Make a contribution

If you have reached this section, you have decided to make a contribution to our World Challenge project. ICONS International has kindly set-up a “World  Challenge Account” for us making it easy for you to donate.

We thank you in advance for your support and look forward to sharing our experience with you after the event.

Should you prefer to pay your donation via:

  • Bank Transfer
  • Western Union
  • MoneyGram

please refer to “World Challenge Account” at the ICONS International Administration introduction section.

Suppliers prequalification – Exclusive Resort construction

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First International

appoints

ICONS FZE – Innovative Concepts & Solutions

to carry out pre-qualification of contractors and suppliers for the development, construction and management of a World Class Exclusive and Unique Resort Complex to be built in the United Arab Emirates.

Dream Island

The destination!

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For more information please e-mail info@iconsfze.com

Burj Khalifa grand opening – Dubai

January 2010

ICONS CONSULTING: Burj Khalifa grand opening – Dubai – FACTS

Ahead of its opening on January 4, Emaar, developer of the Burj Khalifa tower, has released some of the massive numbers and world records that make up the world’s tallest building

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  •  31,400 – the amount of steel rebar in metric tonnes used in the structure of Burj Khalifa
  • 28,261– the number of glass cladding panels making up the exterior of tower and its two annexes
  • 15,000 – the amount of water in litres collected from the tower’s cooling equipment that will be used for landscaping irrigation
  • 12,000 – the numbers of workers on site during peak of construction
  • 5,500 – the capacity in kilograms of the tower’s service lift
  • 3,000 – the number of underground parking spaces
  • 1,044 – the total number of residential apartments inside Burj Khalifa
  • 900 – the length in the feet of the world’s tallest performing fountain, The Dubai Fountain, that lies at the foot of the tower
  • 605 – the vertical height in metres to which concrete was pumped in the construction of Burj Khalifa, a world record for concrete pumping
  • 504 – the distance traveled, or ‘rise’ in metres of Burj Khalifa’s main service lift, the most of any elevator
  • 828 The building’s final official height, in metres
  • 22,000,000 Number of man hours it took to build the tower
  • 5,670,000 Total built up area of the tower, in square feet
  • 330,000 Volume of concrete used to build the tower, in cubic metres
  • 39,000 Amount of reinforced steel used to build the tower, in metric tonnes
  • 103,000 Volume of glass used for exterior façade, in square metres
  • 15,500 Volume of stainless steel used for cladding, in square metres
  • 12,000 Number of people expected to live and work at Burj Khalifa
  • 10 Maximum speed, in metres per second, at which lifts in the Burj travel
  • 192 Number of piles that were used in the building’s foundations