SMUGGLER Welcomes Sue Ahn & Trace Henderson
Sue Ahn joins as an Executive Producer, while Trace Henderson is their new East Coast Sales & Management Associate.
SMUGGLER is excited to welcome the exceptionally talented Sue Ahn and Trace Henderson to their core team—Sue Ahn will bring her experience and talents to SMUGGLER LA as an Executive Producer, while Trace Henderson brings development and production experience with a strong voice and keen eye to SMUGGLER New York as their new East Coast Sales & Management Associate.
Sue Ahn has spent the last 11 years at The Directors Bureau, working with such directors as Roman and Sofia Coppola. She moves fluidly between commercials and music videos and is most excited by creative and challenging projects. Commercially she’s EP'd for a wide range of clients; among them Nike, Google, Facebook, Levi's, Honda, Playstation, Cartier, Gucci, Verizon and many more. Sue has also EP’d music videos for Jay-Z, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Haim, Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Julian Casablancas, Pharrell, Taylor Swift and many in between. Her work with Arcade Fire earned her a Grammy nomination, while her work in karaoke rooms continues to unfortunately be snubbed. Additional work has garnered awards from Shots, D&AD, Ciclope & UKMVA.
Trace Henderson has spent the last 8 years producing commercials, branded content, music videos, as well as feature and documentary films. Along with a passion for championing narrative and aesthetic, Trace believes that risk-taking and discovery are as integral to the creative process as preparation and execution.
He most recently worked as a Producer at Droga5 on campaigns for clients such as Google, Audible, and Prudential. Before Droga5, Trace worked in production and creative development at Verisimilitude, a NY-based film production and finance company. He served as an Associate Producer on multiple films during his tenure, most notably, THE WOLFPACK, winner of the 2015 Sundance U.S. Documentary Grand Jury Prize, and I ORIGINS, winner of the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film prize at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. He also served as an Executive Producer on the short film TORU which premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival and received distribution from A24.
Additional film credits include, Albert Maysles's IRIS, Derek Cianfrance's THE PLACE BEYOND THE PINES, and Joshua Marston's THE FORGIVENESS OF BLOOD. In addition to his feature film credits, Trace has worked on music videos for Le1f and content for Calvin Klein, and Rag & Bone.
