Executive producer Alex Blum has teamed with rep Drew Miller to form Santa Monica-based Sleeper Films. The new venture opens with a directorial roster that includes Christopher Hutsul, Eran Creevy and James Haworth….Director Jonas Mayabb has joined bicoastal HKM Productions for U.S. representation. A graduate of the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Calif., Mayabb in a short time has garnered recognition at the Clio competition and won a Young Directors Award at this year’s Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival….By a narrow margin of a little more than 700 votes, incumbent Alan Rosenburg beat out Seymour Cassel and has been elected to serve a second term as president of the Screen Actors Guild….NBC Universal Artworks, New York, has expanded its motion graphics and animation design business to now serve external clients. Formed in ’06 via the merger of multiple NBC in-house design units, the shop is now diversifying beyond its core biz of servicing NBC, which has included creating show packaging and title design for the likes of NBC Nightly News, Dateline, the 2006 and ’08 Olympic Games, The Today Show, CNBC, MSNBC and NBC Sports….
Director Cassandra Brooksbank Joins Monument Content For Spots and Branded Content
Monument Content has signed director Cassandra “Cassie” Brooksbank for U.S. representation spanning commercials and branded content. She brings to her directing and storytelling the experience and skills of a writer, conceptual artist, editor and visual effects artist.
Her body of work as a director includes Pepsi’s “Selfie” featuring Lionel Messi amid a flurry of fans, Barclays madcap women’s Soccer League spot where she collaborated closely with the agency to develop the creative, ultimately winning the Grand Jury Prize at the Sports Industry Awards, and a grass-roots campaign for Fellow Coffee. The latter just didn’t brew buzz; it helped raise $1.2 million on Kickstarter.
Prior to joining Monument Content, Brooksbank had been repped in the U.S. for commercials by production house Hey Wonderful.
On the long-form front, she is repped by CAA for film and television. And on the horizon is her debut feature, My Masterpiece, produced by Sylvester Stallone’s Balboa Productions and backed by Amazon.
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