Executive producer Leila Gage will be promoted to head of broadcast production at Goodby Silverstein & Partners (GS&P). In this role she will oversee the department and lead the agency’s broadcast-production offering, developing innovative new ways of working with GS&P’s production partners.
Former head of broadcast production Tod Puckett will fill GS&P’s newly created role of director of film and music curation. In this role he will apply his passions and talents for music and film.
“Leila has a knack for building relationships with the production world to help achieve the very best creative results,” said Margaret Johnson, chief creative officer of GS&P. “She has grown up at GS&P and has become an invaluable resource in leading some of our most complex and most-awarded assignments.”
Gage has been with GS&P for 10 years, where she has produced some of the agency’s most famous productions–work for “got milk?,” StubHub, Xfinity, and PepsiCo’s rap battle between Morgan Freeman and Peter Dinklage during the Super Bowl. Prior to GS&P, Gage worked at JWT NY and Saatchi & Saatchi NY.
“Since the first day of our company’s founding, broadcast production has been critical to our creative success,” said Jeff Goodby, co-founder and co-chairman of GS&P. “Leila is a favorite of our creative department and is never shy to push all of us toward greatness.”
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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