Creative agency, commercial and branded content production company Stun Creative has hired Galen Newton as its first director of digital and social media. The new position was created in response to overwhelming demand by Stun clients for comprehensive digital and social media services. Newton will report directly to Stun founding partners/principals Brad Roth and Mark Feldstein.
“Galen will give Stun the opportunity to greatly expand its services in the social marketing and digital space,” said Feldstein. “He’s an experienced digital and social pro who will work with the Stun team to guarantee that our content thrives in a multi-platform world, as we continue to expand and enrich our capabilities.”
Newton has enjoyed a distinguished career leading short-form video strategy for the Special Ops department at FOX television where he helped develop new, innovative ways to exploit the explosion of social video as a marketing tool. Newton also helped the team re-imagine different techniques to capture promotional content in the field and in real-time.
Newton led creative on FOX’s first digital and affiliate after-show for Empire, as well as the network’s first skippable ad campaign on YouTube (Grandfathered), FOX’s first custom video ads on Snapchat (Scream Queens, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Last Man on Earth and Grease Live!), and the first custom video ads for Instagram (Empire).
Before joining FOX, Newton oversaw video production and distribution for Bravo Digital Media from 2005 to 2013. There he was part of the Emmy Award-winning team behind the network’s ambitious transmedia initiative, Top Chef: Last Chance Kitchen. Through strategic planning, he helped drive seven consecutive years of double-digit growth in digital video streams for the network. Earlier in his career, before joining Bravo, Newton worked at Stun as a project coordinator.
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