By A SHOOT Staff Report
August 6, 2014 David&Goliath has hired three new creative leaders: Dino Spadavecchia, group creative director, and longtime creative partners Chris Hutchinson and Driscoll Reid as creative directors. They report to Colin Jeffery, D&G’s newly appointed CCO. Spadavecchia joins the agency most recently from Leo Burnett, where he served as sr. VP/creative director since 2012, working on General Motors. Hutchinson and Reid join from TBWAChiatDay, where they created one of this year’s most visible World Cup campaigns for Adidas’ Brazuca. In their new roles, Spadavecchia, Hutchinson, and Reid will touch many of the brands on D&G’s roster, including Kia, California Lottery and VIZIO…..Supply & Demand has added filmmaker Amy Nicholson to its roster. A creative director, commercial director and documentarian, Nicholson arrives with extensive agency experience on accounts for Nike, Prudential, Yoplait, Black & Decker, Coke, Heineken, HP and ESPN. Her agency roosts include Kirschenbaum Bond, Fallon, Goodby Silverstein & Partners, Wieden+Kennedy and DraftFCB before Nicholson branched out with Beauty School, her first directorial short, a wry portrait of the New York School of Dog Grooming. Nicholson has also helmed web films for Nokia, spots for Pilsner Urquell and the Ad Council–plus a Howard Stern On Demand campaign including the promo “Hiding the Salami,” which helped earn her inclusion in SHOOT’s 2007 New Directors Showcase….
August 14, 2009 Robert LePlae has been named president of McCann Erickson North America. He was most recently president of the TBWA North American group of companies….Paranoid US, based in L.A., has signed the French directorial collective AB/CD/CD (Arnaud Boutin, Camille Dauteuille and Clement Dozier) whose work spans commercials, music videos, shorts, media for theaters and video installations….Editors Stuart Waks, Susan Munro and Michael Bartoli have teamed with executive producer Gail Butler to launch Hybrid, a Santa Monica house offering creative editorial, finishing, VFX and motion graphics. The quartet had previously been with 89 Editorial…Edit house Red Car, with bases of operation in NY, Miami, Chicago, Dallas, Santa Monica, San Francisco and Buenos Aires, has opened Redhead, a graphics and VFX division based in NY. Jason Sonner has been hired to serve as EP running the new division. Chris Bialkowski has been promoted to sr. designer…
Human promotes Kamela Anderson to West Coast EP and head of sync
Music production and supervision company Human has promoted Kamela Anderson to West Coast executive producer and head of sync. In this new role, Anderson will oversee all West Coast operations for Human, including PostHuman, an independent postproduction entity.
As Humanโs former head of sync and A&R, Anderson helped build the music supervision department. Anderson has spent the past eight years in various roles within Human. She has grown with the company as a rising voice in commercial music.
Andersonโs career in advertising began in sales at HSI Productions before joining Anonymous Content to work in its in-house sales department. After that, her journey at Human began, where Anderson worked on several notable brand films that went on to win many industry awards, including four Clio Awards, a Bronze Pencil, a Gold Andy Award, and a Silver Lion. Her work at Human spans brands like Apple, Xbox, Adidas, Samsung, Amazon, BMW, Netflix, NFL, Meta, Gatorade, Google, Doritos, Mountain Dew, and a Nike spot which garnered recognition from the soundtrackโs artist. For โDream Further,โ Nikeโs gloriously girl-powered ad promoting the Womenโs World Cup, Joan Jettโs โBad Reputation,โ was synced, delivering optimal emotional impact. Jett later lauded this needle drop as โstunningโ and โcarrying a strong message beyond the brandโ while being honored that year with a Bronze Clio.
โI built HumanSupervision as a new offering in 2020, and weโre continuing to expand our reach, both on the West Coast and internationally,โ remarked Anderson. โMy creative partner Mike Jurasits and I are very hands-on collaborators and continue to push the envelope with our artist partnerships. Recently, we took a simple music supervision... Read More