Enterpreneur/filmmaker Charlie Stone and partners Brian Rolling and Kate Weidner have formed “an agency without walls” that they named, simply, SRW, in an office in Fulton Market.
Basically, SRW is a “proprietary network of global creative talent, developed and nurtured over the past two decades,” says Stone, that they bring in on a project-by-project basis. “Our clients tell us we work faster for half the cost.”
Stone is a non-stop entrepreneur who has built up a network of interrelated ventures over the past 20 years. They include his original company, Stone Road Productions, and currently also include agency Frequency540, TADA Technologies and the digital webseries MorningCommute.tv.
Award-winning director Rolling “handles everything that’s creative, globally,” says Stone, and has been a Stone associate for the past 12 years starting when he produced and edited for Stone Road Productions.
Subsequently he was Frequency540’s senior director and editor and continues to produce their digital show,“MorningCommute.tv.” He spent the last year operating his own growing production company.
Kate Weidner, who has a background in journalism and video storytelling, ran Frequency540’s production department and before that had produced for Comcast.
“The agile team of experts,” as Stone calls the staff, are located at 220 N. Green, “where we assemble the best teams we can throughout the work to work on our projects which allows us to deliver verifiable results faster and for less cost,” he says.
Among their client base Natural Prairie Dairy, Agrivision, CGN Global, TADA technologies, FEW Spirits, Illinois Mutual, Healthy Schools Campaign, The Lockwood Group, Donuts and others.
