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    Ex-Droga5 Staffer Topher Lorette Named Head of Integrated Production At Argonaut

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    Topher Lorette
    SAN FRANCISCO --

    Topher Lorette is set to come aboard ad agency Argonaut as head of integrated production starting on Aug. 15. He comes over from Droga5 where he was EP/group integrated production manager and ran a team of broadcast, digital, social, and print producers on accounts such as JPMorgan Chase, Pizza Hut, Clearasil, and Airwick.

    At San Francisco-based Argonaut, Lorette succeeds Dan Watson who is leaving the agency to pursue passion projects.

    Prior to Droga5, Lorette spent 15-plus years working with top industry players nationwide at shops including Deutsch LA, AKQA, R/GA, Ogilvy, and Grey, touching big-name brands like Canon, DirecTV, Smirnoff, Coca-Cola, and Target, among others. He also has extensive experience with international production, having worked across four continents, and brings a strong integrated background across broadcast and digital production to his new role. 
     
    Lorette’s work over the years has been recognized at various industry award shows including his work on Canon, which won four Cannes Lions including Gold for Branded Content, Silver for Promotions and Film, and Bronze for Titanium/Integrated. He was also part of the team that produced the Emmy-award winning commercial of the year in 2013–Canon’s “Inspired” spot–while at Grey New York.  

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    Raoul Peck Resurrects A Once-Forgotten Anti-Apartheid Photographer In “Ernest Cole: Lost and Found”

    Friday, November 22, 2024

    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

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