Anthony DeCarolis is joining Saatchi & Saatchi New York as executive creative director. He will be partnered with exec creative director Justin Ebert and work across a broad range of assignments, including Saatchi NY’s newest client addition: Charter Communications. DeCarolis was most recently a creative director at Goodby, Silverstein & Partners.
DeCarolis is an art director/creative director with 13-plus years of agency experience. His work has won most major awards, including Cannes, The One Show, The Clios, Communication Arts, The Art Directors Club, and the AICP Show. He also worked on McDonald’s “Baby” commercial which earned a primetime Emmy nomination in 2011.
As a creative director at Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, DeCarolis managed the Frito-Lay group, launching integrated campaigns for Doritos and Cheetos. He also helped lead other high-profile accounts such as TD Ameritrade and Nickelodeon.
Before heading to Goodby, DeCarolis spent three years as an associate creative director at TBWAChiatDay NY where he created global, award-winning work for Jameson Irish Whiskey, Skittles, Starburst, McDonald’s and Pepsi. His Pepsi “Refresh” anthem spot ran during the Super Bowl and launched the Pepsi Refresh Project.
DeCarolis also worked at TAXI New York and David & Goliath, where he produced integrated campaigns for KIA Motors, Bacardi, Versus Sports Network and the National Hockey League.
Martin Scorsese On “The Saints,” Faith In Filmmaking and His Next Movie
When Martin Scorsese was a child growing up in New York's Little Italy, he would gaze up at the figures he saw around St. Patrick's Old Cathedral. "Who are these people? What is a saint?" Scorsese recalls. "The minute I walk out the door of the cathedral and I don't see any saints. I saw people trying to behave well within a world that was very primal and oppressed by organized crime. As a child, you wonder about the saints: Are they human?" For decades, Scorsese has pondered a project dedicated to the saints. Now, he's finally realized it in "Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints," an eight-part docudrama series debuting Sunday on Fox Nation, the streaming service from Fox News Media. The one-hour episodes, written by Kent Jones and directed by Elizabeth Chomko, each chronicle a saint: Joan of Arc, Francis of Assisi, John the Baptist, Thomas Becket, Mary Magdalene, Moses the Black, Sebastian and Maximillian Kolbe. Joan of Arc kicks off the series on Sunday, with three weekly installments to follow; the last four will stream closer to Easter next year. In naturalistic reenactments followed by brief Scorsese-led discussions with experts, "The Saints" emphasizes that, yes, the saints were very human. They were flawed, imperfect people, which, to Scorsese, only heightens their great sacrifices and gestures of compassion. The Polish priest Kolbe, for example, helped spread antisemitism before, during WWII, sheltering Jews and, ultimately, volunteering to die in the place of a man who had been condemned at Auschwitz. Scorsese, who turns 82 on Sunday, recently met for an interview not long after returning from a trip to his grandfather's hometown in Sicily. He was made an honorary citizen and the experience was still lingering in his mind. Remarks have... Read More