Marcelo Fiore has been named business development director in the U.S. for Latcom, a company specializing in out-of-home advertising in outdoor, indoor, digital, transportation, mobile and cinema media. Latcom provides local and regional services for Latin America, in the three phases of the business: planning, implementation and control. It directly employs more than 200 people and has a wide network of strategic partners for commercial and operational management in more than 18 countries in North America and Europe, with a current projection to the Asian market. Fiore brings to Latcom more than 20 years of experience in leading positions throughout Latin America, having started his career at L’Oreal Argentina as jr. marketing & sales manager. He served as manager of international on-air and digital marketing partnerships at MTV Networks, and as director (head) of panregional ad sales & creative solutions at NBC Universal Media. He recently was client partnership sr. director for Latin America at Teads….
VuWall, a technology company known for video wall control systems and unified visualization solutions, has appointed Leo Bull as its new U.S.-based EVP of sales for North America. Bringing 29 years of experience to the role, Bull has served in sales leadership positions at Mitsubishi Electronics, Fujitsu, Zenith, LG Electronics, and as VP of sales of Avocent’s pro AV and broadcast markets in North and South America. Most recently, he was SVP of sales for the Americas and global accounts at Haivision, for the last 12 years. VuWall will tap into Bull’s experience in building and managing sales teams, and developing a solid reseller channel in the pro AV market….
New York Film Fest Preview: “The Brutalist,” “Nickel Boys,” “April,” “All We Imagine as Light”
When you think of blockbusters, the first thing that comes to mind might not be a 215-minute postwar epic screening for the first time at Lincoln Center. But that was the scene last week when the New York Film Festival hosted a 70mm print of Brady Corbet's "The Brutalist." The festival hadn't then officially begun — its 62nd edition opens Friday — but the advance press screening drew long lines — as some attendees noted, not unlike those at Ellis Island in the film — and a packed Walter Reade Theatre. Word had gotten around: "The Brutalist" is something to see. Corbet's epic, starring Adrian Brody as a Jewish architect remaking his life in Pennsylvania, is the kind of colossal cinematic construction that doesn't come around every day. Shot in VistaVision and structured like movements in a symphony (with a 15-minute intermission to boot), "The Brutalist" is indeed something to behold. It's arthouse and blockbuster in one, and, maybe, a reminder of the movies' capacity for uncompromising grandeur — and the awe that can inspire. It's been fashionable in recent years to wonder about the fate of the movies, but it can be hard to placate those concerns at the New York Film Festival. The festival prizes itself on gathering the best cinema from around the world. And this year, the movies are filled with bold forays of form and perspective that you can feel pushing film forward. This is also the time Oscar campaigns begin lurching into gear, with Q&As and cocktail parties. But, unlike last year when "Oppenheimer" and "Barbie" were entrenched as favorites, the best picture race is said to be wide open. In that vacuum, movies like "The Brutalist" and the NYFF opener, RaMell Ross' "Nickel Boys," not to mention Sean Baker's "Anora" and Jacques Audiard's... Read More