Pink Sparrow–a design and fabrication shop for experiential event marketing, retail environments and art installations, creating environments for global brands like Google, Nike and Target, as well as agencies like Droga5–has hired Corey Smith as its business director. Smith most recently served as director of business development for Mirror NYC. He will work with leadership and business development teams at Pink Sparrow–which maintains offices in Brooklyn, NY, and Los Angeles–to drive growth via new client acquisition, awareness building, strategic partnerships and physical expansion. He previously worked as production director with events firm 6UP Productions and producer with creative agency MKG….
Light Iron, a provider of innovative postproduction creative services and part of Panavision’s end-to-end offerings for content creators, has promoted co-founder Katie Fellion to sr. VP, business development and postproduction strategy. Fellion has been with the company since it began operations in 2009 and was instrumental in establishing Light Iron’s Outpost mobile dailies systems. In her time with Light Iron, Fellion has also produced several firsts in file-based finishing, including the first 6K DI, the first studio feature cut on Final Cut Pro X, and Amazon’s first HDR series. In her new role, she is responsible for global sales and business development, new market strategies, and strategic alignment with Panavision so clients can maximize the value proposition of the companies’ shared production-to-post offerings….
Bazaarvoice, Inc.–an Austin, Texas-headquartered company deploying technology, services and expertise to enable brands and retailers to tap into the full potential of user-generated content–has named Zarina Lam Stanford as its chief marketing officer. Stanford was previously chief communication and marketing officer of Rackspace Technology and held sr. sales and marketing exec positions at IBM and SAP….
In NBC’s “Brilliant Minds,” Zachary Quinto Plays Doctor–In A Role Inspired By Physician/Author Oliver Sacks
There's a great moment in the first episode of the new NBC medical drama "Brilliant Minds" when it becomes very clear that we're not dealing with a typical TV doctor.
Zachary Quinto is behind the wheel of a car barreling down a New York City parkway, packed with hospital interns, abruptly weaving in and out of lanes, when one of them asks, "Does anyone want to share a Klonopin?" โ a drug sometimes used to treat panic disorders.
"Oh, glory to God, yes, please," says Quinto, reaching an arm into the back seat. The intern then breaks the pill in half and gives a sliver to the driver, who swallows it, as the other interns share stunned looks.
Quinto, playing the character Dr. Oliver Wolf, is clearly not portraying any dour, by-the-rules doctor here โ he's playing a character inspired by Dr. Oliver Sacks, the path-breaking researcher and author who rose to fame in the 1970s and was once called the "poet laureate of medicine."
"He was someone who was tirelessly committed to the dignity of the human experience. And so I feel really grateful to be able to tell his story and to continue his legacy in a way that I hope our show is able to do," says Quinto.
He's a fern-loving doctor
"Brilliant Minds" takes Sack's personality โ a motorcycle-riding, fern-loving advocate for mental health who died in 2015 at 82 โ and puts him in the present day, where the creators theorize he would have no idea who Taylor Swift is or own a cell phone. The series debuts Monday on NBC, right after "The Voice."
"It's almost as if we're imagining what it would have been like if Oliver Sacks had been born at a different time," says Quinto. "We use the real life person as our North Star through everything we're doing and all the... Read More