Dean Buckhorn has joined Carmichael Lynch, Minneapolis, as group creative director, having been recruited by Carmichael Lynch’s chief creative officer Dave Damman. Buckhorn’s work for clients from Coca-Cola to Miller Lite has gained international recognition for over 20 years, with awards coming from as far away as England’s D&AD and the Cannes Ad Fest. He is the author of the long-running TIME Magazine ad series that was named campaign of the decade by the prestigious One Club for Art & Copy in New York. He also created the popular Travelers Insurance campaign, which has won top honors from advertising professional groups for several years running. Drawn from the East Coast to the Minneapolis advertising scene during the ‘90s, Buckhorn spent two decades partnering with numerous art directors at Fallon, achieving success across a diverse range of accounts….Animated Storyboards (ASB) has opened an office in Santa Monica led by marketing director Allison Kurtzer, who started her ASB career in the New York office four years ago. Established in 2003, ASB has rapidly grown from a US based company, to a global company spanning four continents. ASB specializes in 3D cinematics, 2D animatics, photomatics and HD Test. With 6 other office locations around the globe, ASB utilizes multiple time zones to work around the clock and deliver materials quickly and efficiently. The ASB LA production team includes animation director CK Spitler, formerly a freelance director specializing in commercial, music video and film production, and producer Natalie Santana, who was previously a producer at McKinney Silver in Durham, NC. ASB’s Santa Monica office will house two edit suites, audio facility, and open space for animators, designers and directors. Some of ASB’s clients include TBWA ChiatDay, Dailey, BBDO and Goodby Silverstein….
Martin Scorsese On “The Saints,” Faith In Filmmaking and His Next Film
When Martin Scorsese was a child growing up in New York's Little Italy, he would gaze up at the figures he saw around St. Patrick's Old Cathedral.
"Who are these people? What is a saint?" Scorsese recalls. "The minute I walk out the door of the cathedral and I don't see any saints. I saw people trying to behave well within a world that was very primal and oppressed by organized crime. As a child, you wonder about the saints: Are they human?"
For decades, Scorsese has pondered a project dedicated to the saints. Now, he's finally realized it in "Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints," an eight-part docudrama series debuting Sunday on Fox Nation, the streaming service from Fox News Media.
The one-hour episodes, written by Kent Jones and directed by Elizabeth Chomko, each chronicle a saint: Joan of Arc, Francis of Assisi, John the Baptist, Thomas Becket, Mary Magdalene, Moses the Black, Sebastian and Maximillian Kolbe. Joan of Arc kicks off the series on Sunday, with three weekly installments to follow; the last four will stream closer to Easter next year.
In naturalistic reenactments followed by brief Scorsese-led discussions with experts, "The Saints" emphasizes that, yes, the saints were very human. They were flawed, imperfect people, which, to Scorsese, only heightens their great sacrifices and gestures of compassion. The Polish priest Kolbe, for example, helped spread antisemitism before, during WWII, sheltering Jews and, ultimately, volunteering to die in the place of a man who had been condemned at Auschwitz.
Scorsese, who turns 82 on Sunday, recently met for an interview not long after returning from a trip to his grandfather's hometown in Sicily. He was made an honorary citizen and the experience was still lingering in his... Read More