Andreas Link, a well-known European director, has signed with HSI Productions for commercial representation in the U.S. and the U.K. His affiliation with HSI marks his first-ever stateside representation.
“Andreas has a very eclectic style that will translate well to the U.S. market,” said Kerstin Emhoff, VP of commercials at HSI. “He has the ability to seamlessly move from humor and storytelling to dialogue to highly visual and back again. We’re looking forward to helping him build his reputation in this market.”
Link, a native of Germany, directed a Mercedes-Benz spot last year called “Crash” out of Springer & Jacoby, Hamburg, which aired during the Academy Awards telecast, piquing his desire to direct more stateside work. “I was attracted to HSI because as a director new to the states, I wanted to be with a strong company with a solid reputation,” said Link, who is currently mulling over several U.S. projects.
In the early 1990s, Link began his career as a photographer, working in fashion and advertising throughout Europe. He later shifted to live-action directing, first working in broadcast design by creating identities for several German TV networks and programs, before getting into commercials.
His credits include spots for clients such as Audi, BMW, Citroen, Panasonic, ARD, and Chevrolet.
HSI has offices in New York, Los Angeles, and London, and maintains the satellites HSI Animation, and Person Films.
Jules Feiffer, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Cartoonist and Writer, Dies At 95
Jules Feiffer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and writer whose prolific output ranged from a long-running comic strip to plays, screenplays and children's books, died Friday. He was 95 and, true to his seemingly tireless form, published his last book just four months ago.
Feiffer's wife, writer JZ Holden, said Tuesday that he died of congestive heart failure at their home in Richfield Springs, New York, and was surrounded by friends, the couple's two cats and his recent artwork.
Holden said her husband had been ill for a couple of years, "but he was sharp and strong up until the very end. And funny."
Artistically limber, Feiffer hopscotched among numerous forms of expression, chronicling the curiosity of childhood, urban angst and other societal currents. To each he brought a sharp wit and acute observations of the personal and political relations that defined his readers' lives.
As Feiffer explained to the Chicago Tribune in 2002, his work dealt with "communication and the breakdown thereof, between men and women, parents and children, a government and its citizens, and the individual not dealing so well with authority."
Feiffer won the United States' most prominent awards in journalism and filmmaking, taking home a 1986 Pulitzer Prize for his cartoons and "Munro," an animated short film he wrote, won a 1961 Academy Award. The Library of Congress held a retrospective of his work in 1996.
"My goal is to make people think, to make them feel and, along the way, to make them smile if not laugh," Feiffer told the South Florida Sun Sentinel in 1998. "Humor seems to me one of the best ways of espousing ideas. It gets people to listen with their guard down."
Feiffer was born on Jan. 26, 1929, in the Bronx. From... Read More