We Inhabit the creative space.
THE INHABITANTS is a full-service Los Angeles-based content studio with a strong focus on creativity and a passion for telling compelling stories. We specialize in concepting and executing feature films, TV series, and advertising campaigns for both digital and broadcast.
Some of our most recent collaborations have been with brands such as Nike, Netflix, UPS, General Motors, Turner Network, Lionsgate, XYZ Films, Bloomberg, Foot Locker, Jeep, Champion, Hyatt, USA Network, Universal Cable Productions, and Alfa Romeo.
JEFF G. WAXMAN
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Jeff is an award-winning feature film producer. His credits include Don’t Look Up, Snake Eyes, John Wick II and III, Vice, The Fighter, Law Abiding Citizen, to name a few. He has worked with some of Hollywood’s most revered talent, including actors Leonardo DiCaprio, Anthony Hopkins, Julia Roberts, Christian Bale, Mark Wahlberg, Jennifer Lawrence, Reese Witherspoon, Javier Bardem, Laurence Fishburne, Jamie Foxx, Woody Harrelson, Willem Dafoe, Keanu Reeves, Michael Shannon, Amy Adams, Casey Affleck, Timothée Chalamet, Idris Alba, Common, Christopher Walken, Forest Whitaker, Steve Carell, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Gerard Butler, Mickey Rourke, and directors such as Sydney Lumet, Adam McKay, Darren Aronofsky, David O. Russell, Michael Mann, Tony Kaye, Taylor Hackford, Scott Cooper, Chad Stahelski, and Tarsem Singh.
DONNA WAXSTEIN
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
A commercial producer based in Los Angeles. Donna has produced throughout the U.S., abroad, and traveled between Los Angeles and her hometown Chicago – happily avoiding most of the Midwestern winters. She has produced for production companies such as Anonymous Content, Backyard, Caviar, Frame Store, Hungryman, Moxie Pictures, Netflix, Raucous Content, Skunk, Superprime, Tool of North America , Uber Content, to name a few.
Although commercials are her medium of choice, she has also produced award-winning title openings and promos. One of her greatest strengths as a producer is the on-set liaison between agency and director to ensure everyone is creatively in sync and that we “make the day”.
One of her favorite parts of the production, however, is the collaborative process that begins even before the job is awarded. Building a team and bringing the creative vision to life through the reality of the budget. The research that goes into properly budgeting this creative vision is extensive and the relationships she’s forged throughout her career are invaluable to this end.
How does Donna budget for healthy and dying weeds for a fertilizer commercial? She flies in the “dandelion guy” from Atlanta….How do you find him…..resources, resources, resources.
SCOTT MACLEOD
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Scott MacLeod is both a feature film and commercial producer born in Detroit and raised in California. He studied acting at the Claire Trevor School of the Arts at The University of California at Irvine. Scott began his career at the world-famous Hollywood Improv comedy club as the showroom manager in the late 90s. Recently, Scott executive produced the award-winning sci-fi feature film WARNING, starring Annabelle Wallis, Alice Eve, Kylie Bunbury, Patrick Schwarzenegger, Thomas Jane, and Alex Pettyfer. The film was repped by The Exchange and was released by Lionsgate. Currently, he produced the feature film drama MENDING THE LINE, starring Brian Cox, Sinqua Walls, Perry Mattfeld, Patricia Heaton, Chris Galust, and Wes Studi. XYZ Films is handling sales and the film will have its world premiere later this year. Scott is a U.S. Army Veteran and lives in Northern California with his wife of 20 years and three beautiful children.