Rob Lieberman, two-time winner of the Directors Guild of America Award as best commercial helmer of the year, has come aboard Santa Monica-based Plum Productions. He formerly directed spots via his Lieberman & Co. in association with now defunct Straw Dogs….Santa Monica-headquartered Bravo Zulu has signed comedy director Jordan Brady, formerly with bicoastal HKM Productions. Brady’s movie Wakin’ Up In Reno, from Miramax, opens Feb. 15 and stars Billy Bob Thornton and Charlize Theron…. Post Perfect, a leading visual effects/post house for much of the late 1980s and through the ’90s, closed its doors last week (1/18). Shutting down the operation was Creative Content Artists (CCA), which acquired Post Perfect’s parent company, New York Media Group, last summer. CCA is designing and launching what it bills as being a talent-based, digital-oriented content studio to succeed Post Perfect. The new venture has set up temporary quarters in downtown Manhattan. Meanwhile, Post Perfect’s duplication business and team, headed by Joe Wolf, is headed for CCA’s New York-based Digital Services division, Crush, which is now under the aegis of Manny Fernandez, former president of Virgin Televison de Mexico, a post/effects shop in Mexico City….Hamburg, Germany-based Neue Sentimental Film has launched a subsidiary in New York, TheHaus. The new company opens under the aegis of executive producer Ivo van Riet, with directors Richard Reiss, Lars Knorrn, David McElwaine and Alexander Kane. Neue Sentimental has U.S. offices in New York and Marina del Rey, Calif….Kieran Walsh has joined Liquid Light, New York, as creative director. Walsh had previously been with R!OT Manhattan, where he was creative director of visual effects…. Director/designer Bill Aylward has joined Open Frame Productions, New York. He had been with New York design house Fred+Ethel….Bob Nelson has joined D’Arcy, New York, in the newly created position of executive VP/managing director of global creative services. Nelson was executive VP/director of broadcast production at Lowe, New York….Dallas-based Hothaus Editorial has renamed itself N20 Editorial and added editor Marc Stone, previously with Post Op, Dallas, and producer Stefany Sabo, who was formerly a producer at GSD&M, Austin, Texas….Industry veteran Bert Steinhauser has passed away at the age of 73. In 1980 Steinhauser opened his own production company, Bert Steinhauser Productions, through which he helmed ads for Volkswagen, General Electric and Miller. Prior to directing, he was a creative director/art director at Doyle Dane Bernbach (now DDB), New York. He retired in 1990….
VCCP Hires Trio Of Creative Duos
Global communications network VCCP has brought three creative duos on board: Charli Camber (née Plant) and Laura Saraiva; Lance Boreham and Tom Dyson; and Jack Snell and Joe Lovett.
Associate creative directors Camber and Saraiva are a British-Portuguese duo known for creating entertaining, culturally influential, and emotionally resonant work. They are best known for “Waiting to Live,” a National Health Service (NHS) child organ donation campaign that placed 233 bespoke dolls representing children on the transplant waiting list in medical waiting rooms across the U.K. The campaign won over 50 awards, including three Cannes Lions, the Grand Prix at the Clios, ADC*E and Eurobest, as well as multiple D&AD Pencils.
Camber and Saraiva join VCCP after three years at VML, where they contributed to four agency pitch wins and worked across global brands including Batiste, Beko, and Duracell. They also helped launch the award-winning mentoring app Magpie and created “Check Me Out,” a provocative cervical cancer awareness campaign that gained traction on social media.
Boreham and Dyson join VCCP as a senior creative team. The duo first met on the renowned Watford ad course in 2014 and later reunited at isobel, where they delivered standout campaigns for Reed, Travelodge and Thortful. Their work has been recognized across the industry for its creativity and effectiveness.
Snell and Lovett also join VCCP as a senior creative team, marking a return to the agency where they spent the first seven years of their careers. During their initial tenure at VCCP, they played a pivotal role in launching major campaigns for Domino’s (“The Official Food of Everything”) and Virgin Media O2 (“Supercharge Your World”), as well as crafting... Read More