Independent creative agency Zambezi has named Josie Brown as its first executive director of marketing and business development. The move follows a steady stream of new business wins for Zambezi, which has recently been named lead creative agency for Cox Automotive and The Venetian, whose properties include The Palazzo in Las Vegas.
Brown brings 14 years of account management and business development leadership to the role. She joins the agency leadership team and is tasked with optimizing the agency’s ability to manage an increase in high-value opportunities. Brown will be reporting directly to Chris Raih, founder & CEO of Zambezi.
Previously, Brown was partner, head of business development at Omelet where she led efforts to land several new clients during her tenure, including The Pokémon Company, Amazon, Ubisoft, SquareEnix, NBC Bravo, Gardein and Orbit Baby. Other accounts she supported include AT&T, Moet & Chandon and Lenovo. In 2015, Brown negotiated Omelet’s first Super Bowl content for Pokémon during Super Bowl 50. The campaign, “Train on,” drew more than 20 million views on YouTube.
A New Zealand native, Brown spent eight of the past 12 years in the United Kingdom and previously held Account Director positions at London agencies; McCann Erickson, Saatchi & Saatchi, and RKCR/Y&R–and across global businesses including, Revlon, L’Oreal Paris and Colgate.
Raoul Peck Resurrects A Once-Forgotten Anti-Apartheid Photographer In “Ernest Cole: Lost and Found”
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