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    Kevin Purcer upped to creative integration director at Erwin Penland

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    Danny Miller joins as sr. content producer

    GREENVILLE, S.C. --

    Full-service marketing agency Erwin Penland has promoted Kevin Purcer to EVP/creative integration director (formerly SVP/director of digital strategy) and brought on board Danny Miller as VP/sr. content producer.

    As creative integration director–which is a brand new role at Erwin Penland–Purcer will oversee the agency’s work in two critical areas: Content and experience. He will work alongside creative teams to help bring the stories they craft for clients to life across technology, experiential, social content and video production.

    Reporting directly to Con Williamson, chief creative officer, Purcer will work across all clients, but focus primarily on Denny’s, L.L.Bean, The UPS Store and Califia Farms. Purcer has been on the Erwin Penland team since 2000 and has been a driving force behind the social media push for Denny’s Diner.

    Miller joins Erwin Penland from Saatchi and Saatchi, where he was a senior producer, and also spent time at McCann Erickson. Miller will report directly to Erwin Penland’s EVP/executive creative director John Cornette.

    Miller will have a hand in all Erwin Penland clients that produce film and other content for broadcast, web, radio and social media, including Denny’s, L.L.Bean and Califia Farms.
     

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    Raoul Peck Resurrects A Once-Forgotten Anti-Apartheid Photographer In “Ernest Cole: Lost and Found”

    Friday, November 22, 2024

    When the photographer Ernest Cole died in 1990 at the age of 49 from pancreatic cancer at a Manhattan hospital, his death was little noted.

    Cole, one of the most important chroniclers of apartheid-era South Africa, was by then mostly forgotten and penniless. Banned by his native country after the publication of his pioneering photography book "House of Bondage," Cole had emigrated in 1966 to the United States. But his life in exile gradually disintegrated into intermittent homelessness. A six-paragraph obituary in The New York Times ran alongside a list of death notices.

    But Cole receives a vibrant and stirring resurrection in Raoul Peck's new film "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found," narrated in Cole's own words and voiced by LaKeith Stanfield. The film, which opens in theaters Friday, is laced throughout with Cole's photographs, many of them not before seen publicly.

    As he did in his Oscar-nominated James Baldwin documentary "I Am Not Your Negro," the Haitian-born Peck shares screenwriting credit with his subject. "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found" is drawn from Cole's own writings. In words and images, Peck brings the tragic story of Cole to vivid life, reopening the lens through which Cole so perceptively saw injustice and humanity.

    "Film is a political tool for me," Peck said in a recent interview over lunch in Manhattan. "My job is to go to the widest audience possible and try to give them something to help them understand where they are, what they are doing, what role they are playing. It's about my fight today. I don't care about the past."

    "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found" is a movie layered with meaning that goes beyond Cole's work. It asks questions not just about the societies Cole documented but of how he was treated as an artist,... Read More

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