Zulu Alpha Kilo’s Catherine Allen and Ian Simpson have been promoted to creative directors. Both joined Zulu in November 2015 as associate creative directors.
Prior to working at Zulu, they were the team behind Nabob’s Respect the Bean campaign at Ogilvy, and Kokanee’s “The Movie Out Here” at Grip Limited. At Zulu, they’ve been the creative leads on Bell creating work for Bell’s Rio Summer Olympic sponsorship, Fibe TV, Bell mobility, and Fibe Internet. They’ve also created campaigns at Zulu for Mott’s Venom + Vodka, KitchenAid’s Cook for the Cure program, and ParticipACTION’s 150 Play List.
In addition to the promotions on the creative team, Zulu announced two promotions in the account team. Terri Mattucci and David Tremblay have both been promoted to group account directors.
Mattucci joined Zulu from Juniper Park in the fall of 2015. She will continue to lead the Bell and ParticipACTION business in her new role. Meanwhile, Tremblay who joined Zulu in the fall of 2014 from JWT, is currently overseeing the Harley Davidson business.
Writers of “Conclave,” “Say Nothing” Win Scripter Awards
The authors and screenwriters behind the film “Conclave” and the series “Say Nothing” won the 37th-annual USC Libraries Scripter Awards during a black-tie ceremony at USC’s Town and Gown ballroom on Saturday evening (2/22).
The Scripter Awards recognize the year’s most accomplished adaptations of the written word for the screen, including both feature-length films and episodic series.
Novelist Robert Harris and screenwriter Peter Straughan took home the award for “Conclave.”
In accepting the award, Straughan said, “Adaptation is a really strange process, you’re very much the servant of two masters. In a way it’s an act of betrayal of one master for the other.” He joked that “You start off with a book that you love, you read it again and again, and then you end up throwing it over your shoulder,” crediting author Robert Harris for being “so kind, so generous, so open throughout.”
In the episodic series category, Joshua Zetumer and Patrick Radden Keefe won for the episode “The People in the Dirt” from the limited series “Say Nothing,” which Zetumer adapted from Keefe’s nonfiction book about the Troubles in Ireland.
Zetumer referenced this year’s extraordinary group of Scripter finalists, saying “projects like these reminded me of why I wanted to become a writer when I was sitting in USC’s Leavey Library dreaming of becoming a screenwriter. If you fell in love with movies, or fell in love with TV, chances are you fell in love with something dangerous.”
Special guest for the evening, actress and producer Jennifer Beals, shared her thoughts on the impact of libraries. “If ever you are at a loss wondering if there is good in the world,” she said, “you have only to go to a... Read More