Joel Rodriguez, formerly of Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, San Francisco, has joined 180 LA as creative director. At Goodby he focused on all media and digital projects, working on Sprint, HP, Hyundai and Comcast….Editor Jeff Landsman, formerly of Outsider, Chicago, has joined Chicago-based Foundation, reuniting him with former Red Car colleague James Lipetzky, co-owner of Foundation….Live-action directorial duo The Docter Twins–Jason and Matt Docter–has come aboard DUCK (formerly animation house Duck Soup Studios), Los Angeles, for exclusive representation. The Docters are slated to take on their first project at their new roost–a series of four comedy spots for Wienerschnitzel out of agency DGWB, Santa Ana, Calif., working in tandem with DUCK’s animation team….Los Angeles-based director Jamie Sterba has gained representation and production support in Canada via an association with Sparks Productions, Toronto….Douglas Wilkinson has joined bicoastal design/VFX/animation/live-action studio Buck as visual effects supervisor. His experience includes tenures as a freelancer and on staff at such shops as SWAY Studios, Culver City, Calif., and Digital Domain, Venice, Calif. Among his most notable spots are Hummer’s “Video Game” directed by Joseph Kosinski of bicoastal Anonymous Content for Modernista!, Boston, and Heineken’s “Beer Run” helmed by David Fincher of Anonymous Content for Wieden+Kennedy, Amsterdam…Karol Marrs has been promoted to executive producer at bicoastal Moxie Pictures. She had been head of production at the company for the past four years. She first worked with Moxie CEO Robert Fernandez at his prior roost, @radical.media….
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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