Director Gary McKendry has joined the roster of Aero Film, Santa Monica….FilmTecknarna continues to build its business in North America, inking a deal to represent director Jory Hull for exclusive commercial representation in the U.S. and Canada. Hull will work out of the company’s new studio in Manhattan’s SoHo neighborhood. He started his career as a Swiss-style trained graphic designer working in everything from magazines to advertising, and dove into the burgeoning motion design world stateside in the mid-1990’s. During that time, Hull led teams of designers as a creative director at several noted companies in the motion graphics world, including Digital Kitchen in Seattle, and Eyeball in New York City…..Euro RSCG New York has hired Mary Pratt as director of digital project management. Pratt joins the agency’s growing interactive team and will support digital and integrated marketing initiatives across the agency’s clients, reporting to Euro RSCG N.Y. co-CEO/chief digital officer Jeff Brooks. Pratt most recently was partner, director of project management at Ogilvy Interactive in N.Y., where she oversaw digital production for such clients as American Express, IBM, Jackson National Life and Time Warner Cable. Prior to Ogilvy, Pratt worked on Bank of America digital efforts for R/GA in New York….Danny DelPurgatorio, formerly a creative director with Radium/Reel FX, has come aboard Chicago-based digital media production studio Vitamin (affiliated with the Filmworkers group of companies) as executive creative director. Vitamin’s core services include conceptual development, design, live action production, visual effects, motion graphics and animation (2D, 3D and traditional)….
Director Cassandra Brooksbank Joins Monument Content For Spots and Branded Content
Monument Content has signed director Cassandra “Cassie” Brooksbank for U.S. representation spanning commercials and branded content. She brings to her directing and storytelling the experience and skills of a writer, conceptual artist, editor and visual effects artist.
Her body of work as a director includes Pepsi’s “Selfie” featuring Lionel Messi amid a flurry of fans, Barclays madcap women’s Soccer League spot where she collaborated closely with the agency to develop the creative, ultimately winning the Grand Jury Prize at the Sports Industry Awards, and a grass-roots campaign for Fellow Coffee. The latter just didn’t brew buzz; it helped raise $1.2 million on Kickstarter.
Prior to joining Monument Content, Brooksbank had been repped in the U.S. for commercials by production house Hey Wonderful.
On the long-form front, she is repped by CAA for film and television. And on the horizon is her debut feature, My Masterpiece, produced by Sylvester Stallone’s Balboa Productions and backed by Amazon.
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