Director Todd Haynes has joined bicoastal/international Moxie Pictures for worldwide spot representation. Haynes–who directed I’m Not There, the biographical film about Bob Dylan, which just garnered four 2008 Spirit Award nominations–is making his first foray into the commercialmaking arena. Accompanying Haynes to Moxie is his longtime producer Christine Vachon. Plans call for Vachon to collaborate with Haynes on his spot endeavors and to work with Moxie to find other content opportunities for the director…Jonathan Cude has succeeded David Baldwin as executive creative director at Durham, N.C.-based agency McKinney. Baldwin resigned from the post–which he held for the past 10 years–to seek a new challenge. Cude has been with McKinney since 2003 when he came over from Wieden+Kennedy…..Jon Soto has joined BBDO West as executive creative director of the agency’s San Francisco shop. He will partner with Jim Lesser, executive VP/executive creative director, BBDO West, which encompasses the Los Angeles and San Francisco offices. Soto formerly served as executive creative director at Publicis & Hal Riney, San Francisco….Greg Ecker has joined Charlex, New York, as lead FX technical director following a six-year stretch as a freelance supervising effects technical director, effects tech director and CG programmer at assorted studios in New York….Sue Troyan has been hired as executive producer of Brickyard VFX’s Santa Monica facility. She spent the past nine years at Method Studios, Santa Monica, most recently as head of production. Brickyard maintains studios in Boston and Santa Monica….
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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