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    Anwar Khuri named EP of The Escape Pod, Gravity Well Studio

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    CHICAGO --

    Anwar Khuri has been hired to serve as executive producer of independent agency The Escape Pod and its production arm, Gravity Well Studio. Khuri is responsible for expanding The Escape Pod’s production capabilities and growing the studio to offer clients the full range of production solutions.

    Prior to The Escape Pod and Gravity Well, Khuri produced award-winning, national and international multimedia campaigns for notable brands including Burger King, General Motors, SC Johnson, Coors Light, CDW, Kimberly-Clark, Grainger and Dove. He honed his production chops as sr. producer at agencies including Ogilvy & Mather, DraftFCB and McCann Erickson, in addition to founding and serving as executive creative director and production lead for Popskull, a boutique creative agency serving such clients as SkinnyPop and Lyft.

    Norm Bilow, managing director of The Escape Pod Group and Gravity Well Studio, said, “In our business, speed to ideas is a competitive advantage. Gravity Well enables us to deliver breakthrough creative ideas and the production prowess to bring them to life at any scale. Anwar’s experience is deep and diverse, ranging from national TV campaigns and experiential activations for Fortune 500 companies to scrappy social content for start-ups, and everything in between. He also ran his own agency, so he knows firsthand how to make ideas happen while stewarding clients’ budgets and the agency’s business goals. With Anwar at the helm, there’s no limit to the range and scale of productions we can provide, both for our full-service clients and studio projects.” 

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    Raoul Peck Resurrects A Once-Forgotten Anti-Apartheid Photographer In “Ernest Cole: Lost and Found”

    Friday, November 22, 2024

    When the photographer Ernest Cole died in 1990 at the age of 49 from pancreatic cancer at a Manhattan hospital, his death was little noted.

    Cole, one of the most important chroniclers of apartheid-era South Africa, was by then mostly forgotten and penniless. Banned by his native country after the publication of his pioneering photography book "House of Bondage," Cole had emigrated in 1966 to the United States. But his life in exile gradually disintegrated into intermittent homelessness. A six-paragraph obituary in The New York Times ran alongside a list of death notices.

    But Cole receives a vibrant and stirring resurrection in Raoul Peck's new film "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found," narrated in Cole's own words and voiced by LaKeith Stanfield. The film, which opens in theaters Friday, is laced throughout with Cole's photographs, many of them not before seen publicly.

    As he did in his Oscar-nominated James Baldwin documentary "I Am Not Your Negro," the Haitian-born Peck shares screenwriting credit with his subject. "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found" is drawn from Cole's own writings. In words and images, Peck brings the tragic story of Cole to vivid life, reopening the lens through which Cole so perceptively saw injustice and humanity.

    "Film is a political tool for me," Peck said in a recent interview over lunch in Manhattan. "My job is to go to the widest audience possible and try to give them something to help them understand where they are, what they are doing, what role they are playing. It's about my fight today. I don't care about the past."

    "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found" is a movie layered with meaning that goes beyond Cole's work. It asks questions not just about the societies Cole documented but of how he was treated as an artist,... Read More

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