Cultivate.Media has added director Joel Limchoc to its roster. His credits include spots for such brands as McDonald’s, Philippine telecom company Globe, and life insurance company Pru Life UK. He’s worked with Lintas, JWT and BBDO, among other agencies. Limchoc was also inducted as the youngest member ever of the Creative Guild of the Philippines’ Hall of Fame and has been honored by top awards including Asia Pacific Adfest, Spikes Asia, London International Advertising Awards, CLIO, D&AD, One Show and Cannes. Limchoc’s hire comes on the heels of Cultivate.Media’s partnership with digital creative studio Click 3X, which allows both parties to bundle and package a wide range of director talent and capabilities from both coasts of the U.S….
Los Angeles-based production company Hound has signed director Bo Mirosseni. After beginning his career in music videos, his freshman effort in the commercial world (a spot for Virgin Mobile) landed him a coveted nomination at the Cannes Young Directors Showcase. Since then he’s been at the helm of campaigns for brands such as Mercedes-Benz, Ray-Ban, and Samsung. Mirosseni’s short films have made the rounds on the festival circuit as well as regularly garnering “Vimeo Staff Pick” status. His recent PSA “The Mom And Dad Bods Anthem” for organ donation website Organize.org is a delightfully absurd and roundabout appeal to sign up for organ donation. Mirosseni has crafted visuals for acts such as Sleigh Bells, Black Moth Super Rainbow and Mystery Skulls, while his clip for Disclosure’s “When A Fire Starts To Burn” landed among the lists of the Top 10 Music Videos of 2014 by Rolling Stone, Huffington Post, Buzzfeed, Stereogum and Video Static. Currently, Mirosseni is in production on a music video for Zhu’s next single. Founded by EPs Missy Galanida and Isaac Rice in March 2016, Hound recently enlisted industry vets Joby Barnhart and Jamie Miller to head its commercial division….
WAX, a New York-based boutique editorial company and creative collective, has added film and commercial editor Eddie Ringer. He comes over from Wildchild + bonch in New York. Prior to that, Ringer spent over eight years at ad agency Butler Shine Stern + Partners (BSSP), where he edited and directed advertising projects spanning broadcast commercials, viral campaigns, and branded content….
Review: Writer-Director Aaron Schimberg’s “A Different Man”
Imagine you could wake up one morning, stand at the mirror, and literally peel off any part of your looks you don't like — with only movie-star beauty remaining.
How would it change your life? How SHOULD it change your life?
That's a question – well, a launching point, really — for Edward, protagonist of Aaron Schimberg's fascinating, genre-bending, undeniably provocative and occasionally frustrating "A Different Man," featuring a stellar trio of Sebastian Stan, Adam Pearson and Renate Reinsve.
The very title is open to multiple interpretations. Who (and what) is "different"? The original Edward, who has neurofibromatosis, a genetic disorder that causes bulging tumors on his face? Or the man he becomes when he's able to slip out of that skin? And is he "different" to others, or to himself?
When we meet Edward, a struggling actor in New York (Stan, in elaborate makeup), he's filming some sort of commercial. We soon learn it's an instructional video on how to behave around colleagues with deformities. But even there, the director stops him, offering changes. "Wouldn't want to scare anyone," he says.
On Edward's way home on the subway, people stare. Back at his small apartment building, he meets a young woman in the hallway, in the midst of moving to the flat next door. She winces visibly when she first sees him, as virtually everyone does.
But later, Ingrid (Reinsve) tries to make it up to him, coming over to chat. She is charming and forthright, and tells Edward she's a budding playwright.
Edward goes for a medical checkup and learns that one of his tumors is slowly progressing over the eye. But he's also told of an experimental trial he could join. With the possibility — maybe — of a cure.
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