Shelley Ong has joined Enso as brand impact lead, a newly created position at the L.A.-based agency. Ong will oversee the brand impact team, which looks to lead, cultivate and grow brands that deliver both business and social impact. She will shepherd the business strategy, strategic partnerships and day-to-day account management across all accounts as well as provide forward thinking opportunities for new and existing clients.
Ong brings more than 10 years of experience in brand development, communication strategy and integrated campaigns. She’s worked with leading global brands including Procter & Gamble, Kellogg’s and TELUS, as well as with local social enterprises and NGOs around the world. Prior to joining Enso, Ong led the masterbrand division for Samsung Global at Leo Burnett, where she was instrumental in developing its first global brand creative platform. She graduated from the University of British Columbia with a double-specialization in marketing and international business.
“Shelley is a master collaborator who’s passionate about innovation and storytelling, and how they can empower brands to play a role in bettering the world by just doing business. That’s the mission of Enso and she truly lives and breathes it,” said Sebastian Buck, co-founder and strategic lead of Enso.
Review: Writer-Director Aaron Schimberg’s “A Different Man”
Imagine you could wake up one morning, stand at the mirror, and literally peel off any part of your looks you don't like — with only movie-star beauty remaining.
How would it change your life? How SHOULD it change your life?
That's a question – well, a launching point, really — for Edward, protagonist of Aaron Schimberg's fascinating, genre-bending, undeniably provocative and occasionally frustrating "A Different Man," featuring a stellar trio of Sebastian Stan, Adam Pearson and Renate Reinsve.
The very title is open to multiple interpretations. Who (and what) is "different"? The original Edward, who has neurofibromatosis, a genetic disorder that causes bulging tumors on his face? Or the man he becomes when he's able to slip out of that skin? And is he "different" to others, or to himself?
When we meet Edward, a struggling actor in New York (Stan, in elaborate makeup), he's filming some sort of commercial. We soon learn it's an instructional video on how to behave around colleagues with deformities. But even there, the director stops him, offering changes. "Wouldn't want to scare anyone," he says.
On Edward's way home on the subway, people stare. Back at his small apartment building, he meets a young woman in the hallway, in the midst of moving to the flat next door. She winces visibly when she first sees him, as virtually everyone does.
But later, Ingrid (Reinsve) tries to make it up to him, coming over to chat. She is charming and forthright, and tells Edward she's a budding playwright.
Edward goes for a medical checkup and learns that one of his tumors is slowly progressing over the eye. But he's also told of an experimental trial he could join. With the possibility — maybe — of a cure.
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