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    Heather Hayden named director of talent at The Escape Pod

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    CHICAGO --

    The Escape Pod, an independent advertising agency in Chicago, has named Heather Hayden as its director of talent. Formerly sr. creative recruiter at Havas Worldwide Chicago, Hayden will be responsible for recruiting and retaining top talent and building upon the agency’s unique culture during a time of significant growth. Hayden’s appointment follows The Escape Pod’s recent acquisition of digital experience studio ORA Interactive, which grew the agency’s headcount by 30 percent and bolstered its full-service capabilities. 

    Hayden is an industry veteran with extensive experience on both the agency and production sides. She has held account management roles at Element 79, FCB Chicago, J. Walter Thompson Worldwide, and Flair Communications, as well as serving as Midwest production company representative for Santa Monica, Calif.-based Hum Music, Chicago-based MK Films and NYC-based The Wilderness.

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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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