December 2025 Announcements: The Shepherds Studios Announces New Representation, Creative Collaborations, and Team Additions

The Shepherds Studios is pleased to share several key updates spanning representation, project development, creative collaboration, and team expansion.

Representation Announcement

The Shepherds Studios is now represented by Paradigm Talent Agency, with representation

led by Partner Matthew Kingsley, CEO/Founder of 3 Kings Entertainment.

Kingsley brings over 25 years of experience across talent management, television broadcasting, sports representation, and media negotiation, with a career spanning major network, cable, and sports platforms. Paradigm is a full-service entertainment agency with a global footprint, representing clients across film, television, music, publishing, digital media, and brand partnerships.

The Dark Watchers

The Dark Watchers is based on an original story by Timothy Moran, an award-winning writer, director, and producer with over 20 years of experience in film and television. Moran has worked across Canada and New Zealand and most recently served as a director, writer, and producer at Goalcast, where his short documentaries and narrative films have amassed over one billion views worldwide. His work has screened at festivals internationally and earned multiple awards, including opening the 2022 Hamilton Film Festival and winning Best Adventure Featurette at Another Hole in the Head Film Festival in San Francisco.

The film will be directed by Spencer Combs, a filmmaker known for a visually driven approach shaped by more than three decades behind the camera. Combs brings extensive experience as a Director of Photography across studio features, television, and commercials, with credits including Iron Man 2, Sons of Anarchy, Twisted Metal, and Physical, and work for Apple TV, HBO, Marvel, Paramount, Sony, and ABC. Now directing, he carries forward a style defined by mood, precision, and emotional clarity.

The Dark Watchers follows Tabitha, a woman shaped by childhood trauma, quiet faith, and relentless discipline, who returns to a remote Appalachian cabin near the site of her husband’s disappearance. As unexplained disturbances mount and the wilderness around her seems to watch and remember, Tabitha is forced to confront a presence tied to a horror she has spent her life denying. The story traces her journey through fear, memory, and belief, as she moves toward a reckoning buried deep within the mountains — and within herself.

Watch the trailer:

Sons of the Dragon

The Shepherds Studios is collaborating with Emanuele Tenderini and Stefano Ascari, the creators of Sons of the Dragon, to expand the property into a transmedia franchise.

Emanuele Tenderini is an Italian comic book artist whose work spans major publishers in Italy and abroad, including Delcourt, Les Humanoïdes Associés, Soleil, Panini, Sergio Bonelli Editore, Ankama, and Le Lombard. His credits include Wondercity, Oeil de Jade, Dylan Dog, Dampyr, Prediction, Arcane Majeur, 1066, and World of Lumina. In 2009, he received the Ayaaak Award for Outstanding Colorist for his work on Dylan Dog Color Fest and Dampyr.

Stefano Ascari began his career in comics at Casablanca magazine and in Massimo Bonfatti’s studio. He has published graphic novels in Italy and internationally with publishers including Edizioni BD, Star Comics, Editions Delcourt, and Dark Horse Publishing. Ascari is the creative director of the communication agency Intersezione and a lecturer in Industrial Product Design in Bologna. His recent work includes Il segreto di Sorbara, Il tempo? Siamo noi!, Théodora – la reine courtisane, and the series Le stagioni della Resistenza.

Team Expansion

The Shepherds Studios is pleased to announce that Evan Lipschutz and Cam Crain  have joined the team!

Evan Lipschutz brings over 25 years of experience in music A&R and artist development. Over the course of his career, he has worked with and overseen artists including Nick Jonas, Fall Out Boy, The Killers, Brockhampton, Bebe Rexha, Shakira, Good Charlotte, Sum 41, All Time Low, Neon Trees, Upsahl, and KennyHoopla, among others. He is the founder of Double Down 11, a boutique music consultancy focused on A&R, artist development, music supervision, and management. His recent work includes overseeing A&R for Riot Games/Netflix’s Arcane Season 2 and serving as a strategic advisor to AI DAW platform OwlDuet. Lipschutz has previously held senior A&R roles at Arista Records, Atlantic Records/Warner Chappell, Island Def Jam, and Epic Records.

Cam Crain is a creative producer and innovation leader with more than two decades of experience spanning theatre, film, education, and early-stage venture ecosystems. He is the co-founder of the Nevada Shakespeare Company and has led large-scale creative,

educational, and organizational initiatives across performance, philanthropy, and startup acceleration. Crain has held leadership roles in arts organizations, schools, technology accelerators, and university innovation programs, and continues to develop original IP across film and digital media.