Director David Gaddie and visual effects supervisor James Rogers have formed The Colony, a multidisciplinary directing collective spanning VFX, design, postproduction and live action filmmaking. Gaddie’s honors include a Gold Lion at the Cannes International Advertising Festival for an Australian PSA. Over the years, his work also garnered such kudos as silvers at the One Show and Clios. Prior to The Colony, Gaddie was repped by The Sweet Shop. Meanwhile Rogers has contributed to visual effects for the Sony PlayStation game Final Fantasy VIII, and films such as Daybreakers, and Lord of the Rings: Return of the King. Located in Manhattan, The Colony, repped by B Reel Films, completed its first campaign, a pair of PSAs for the Foundation for a Smoke Free America….Los Angeles-based Boxer Films has signed director Rodrigo Garcia Saiz, founder of eight-year-old Central Films in Mexico City. A visual storyteller with a comedic slant, Garcia Saiz has directed for assorted major clients in his native Mexico, including Tecate, Axe, Nike and Sony PlayStation. Garcia Saiz’s irreverent “Mariachis” piece for Skwinkles candy landed a Gold Lion at last year’s Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival….Joe Lin has joined Digitas as creative senior VP for the agency’s Stamford, CT office. He will serve as creative lead on the Delta account, among others, reporting to Lincoln Bjorkman, executive VP/exec creative director for Digitas/ N.Y. region. Lin had been exec creative director at Publicis Modem Asia. There he helped develop integrated brand and interactive strategies for clients such as Hewlett Packard, Cisco, LG Electronics, and P&G. Prior to that, Lin was creative director/VP at Publicis Dialog, San Francisco….
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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