The creative team of Sergio Takahata and Nellie Santee, formerly with DAVID Miami, has joined AMV BBDO.
Copywriter Santee teamed up with art director Sergio Takahata in 2019 after meeting at DAVID Miami. They were the main team behind the Burger King account, responsible for product launches and cornerstone creative ideas. They also worked on Budweiser, Sour Patch Kids and Heinz Ketchup, delivering famous, engaging, and award-winning ideas.
Santee was born in the U.S. and grew up in Brazil, starting her advertising career in the countryside. After finishing a master’s degree in communications, she moved to the U.S and started at DAVID Miami in 2018. In less than two years, she had won eight Cannes Lions–three of them Golds–four D&AD Pencils and six awards at One Show. She also made the top ten most awarded copywriters list in the Cannes Lions Festival in 2019–the only woman.
Takahata, a Brazilian, has won over 12 Grand Prix in major international festivals. His awards haul includes nine Cannes Lions, including one Grand Prix and four Golds, 11 D&AD Pencils, including one Black and four Yellows. He was part of the team that helped DAVID Miami to be nominated Agency of the Year at the One Show, Clios, and D&AD. According to the Cannes Global Creative Report, he ranked as the #7 most awarded art director in 2020/2021. He also ranked as the #1 most awarded art director at the One Show 2020.
A joint statement from Santee and Takahata read, “We are very excited to join AMV with all its creative history and even more with the exciting fresh leadership. It feels like the perfect time to be here and make awesome work”.
AMV BBDO chief creative officers Nadja Lossgott and Nicholas Hulley shared in a joint statement, “We are huge admirers of Nellie and Sergio’s work, so to have them join us with our other brilliant creative talent at the agency is very exciting. We look forward to more potent ideas that can add to the explosion of creativity at AMV.”
Actor Daniel Day-Lewis Ends Retirement For A Film Directed By His Son
Daniel Day-Lewis is coming out of retirement, seven years after his last movie, for a film directed by his son Ronan Day-Lewis.
The project was announced Tuesday by Focus Features and Plan B, who are partnering on "Anemone." The film, Ronan Day-Lewis' directorial debut, will star his father along with Sean Bean and Samantha Morton. The film was co-written by the two Day-Lewises.
Earlier Tuesday, Daniel Day-Lewis and Bean were spotted driving a motorbike through Manchester, England, stoking intrigue about his impending return to acting. After making Paul Thomas Anderson's 2017 film "Phantom Thread," the 67-year-old had said he was quitting acting.
"All my life, I've mouthed off about how I should stop acting, and I don't know why it was different this time, but the impulse to quit took root in me, and that became a compulsion," he told W Magazine in 2017. "It was something I had to do."
Since then, his appearances in public have been infrequent. In January, though, he made a surprise appearance at the National Board of Review Awards to present an award to Martin Scorsese, who directed him in "Gangs of New York" (2002) and "The Age of Innocence" (1993).
"Anemone," currently in production, is described as exploring "the intricate relationships between fathers, sons and brothers, and the dynamics of familial bonds."
Ronan Day-Lewis, 26, is a painter who has previously exhibited his works in New York. His first international solo exhibition debuts Tuesday in Hong Kong.
"We could not be more excited to partner with a brilliant visual artist in Ronan Day-Lewis on his first feature film alongside Daniel Day-Lewis as his creative collaborator," said Peter Kujawski, chair of Focus Features. "They have written a truly... Read More