Omnicom Group companies E-Graphics Worldwide and Hub Plus have merged to form eg+ worldwide. The new company will provide a client-focused network for production and tailored implementation solutions. E-Graphics and Hub Plus have highly complementary capabilities and a history of collaboration for their clients. Together, they will harness the latest technologies to help global brands implement, amplify and localize creative concepts across moving image, digital and print channels. The new agency will use a proprietary technology platform that offers clients a one-stop shop for asset, workflow and project management, as well as transcreation, delivery and a tried and tested transition program. eg+ will deliver its services globally through key offices in Los Angeles, London, New York, Paris, Singapore and Tokyo with additional offices in China, France, Germany, Japan, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands, South Africa, Switzerland, Thailand, the U.K. and U.S.. The eg+ offices will be supported by digital production centers in China, India, Mexico and Poland. The more than 1,200 implementation, technology and production specialists of eg+ will be led by Paul Hosea, as CEO worldwide; Simon Toaldo, as president international; Mark Rhys Thomas, chief strategy officer worldwide; Myles Peacock, president, Americas and global client leader; and Jason Van Praagh, CTO….Director Jason Lindsay has joined the roster of Seed Media Arts. He brings multidisciplinary experience to the director’s chair. Lindsay has worked with such brands as adidas, Amazon.com, Belize Tourism, Buick, Budweiser, Centrum, Illinois Tourism, Jim Beam, Kellogg’s, Sears, Whirlpool and Condé Nast Traveler….Melody Alexander has joined The Mill’s LA studio as a VFX producer. Alexander has been part of The Mill’s global production team since early 2013 and comes over from the London studio where she served as a VFX producer….
Raoul Peck Resurrects A Once-Forgotten Anti-Apartheid Photographer In “Ernest Cole: Lost and Found”
When the photographer Ernest Cole died in 1990 at the age of 49 from pancreatic cancer at a Manhattan hospital, his death was little noted.
Cole, one of the most important chroniclers of apartheid-era South Africa, was by then mostly forgotten and penniless. Banned by his native country after the publication of his pioneering photography book "House of Bondage," Cole had emigrated in 1966 to the United States. But his life in exile gradually disintegrated into intermittent homelessness. A six-paragraph obituary in The New York Times ran alongside a list of death notices.
But Cole receives a vibrant and stirring resurrection in Raoul Peck's new film "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found," narrated in Cole's own words and voiced by LaKeith Stanfield. The film, which opens in theaters Friday, is laced throughout with Cole's photographs, many of them not before seen publicly.
As he did in his Oscar-nominated James Baldwin documentary "I Am Not Your Negro," the Haitian-born Peck shares screenwriting credit with his subject. "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found" is drawn from Cole's own writings. In words and images, Peck brings the tragic story of Cole to vivid life, reopening the lens through which Cole so perceptively saw injustice and humanity.
"Film is a political tool for me," Peck said in a recent interview over lunch in Manhattan. "My job is to go to the widest audience possible and try to give them something to help them understand where they are, what they are doing, what role they are playing. It's about my fight today. I don't care about the past."
"Ernest Cole: Lost and Found" is a movie layered with meaning that goes beyond Cole's work. It asks questions not just about the societies Cole documented but of how he was treated as an artist,... Read More