This Next Gen class is behind some of the year’s biggest entertainment. You can thank Carina Sposato for the tears you cried watching the Netflix drama Adolescence, while Olivia Heighten spurred your car obsession after that Imax screening of F1 .

But maybe more impressive than their credits and A-list clients — CAA’s Ben Levine handles all things Martha Stewart — is their ability to navigate an industry that continues to experience gale-force headwinds.

There are fewer names from traditional studios like Warner Bros. and Paramount, as corporate cost-cutting continues to cull young talent, but these 35 upstarts are building their own companies (see: Mad Realities’ Alice Ma and Redefine’s Max Goldfarb) and making award-winning projects independently, like Anora producer Alex Coco. Just

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