Bullet, a year-old creative production firm founded by producer Oscar Thomas, has brought executive producer Damon Webster and digital content producer Andrea Leminske on board, and opened offices in Los Angeles and Amsterdam.
Webster’s experience includes his having been head of production at Saatchi & Saatchi LA, Torrance, Calif., for nine years. He had most recently been freelancing. Meanwhile Leminske has worked with such agencies as R/GA, Digitas and Agency.com.
Webster will lead Bullet’s new Los Angeles office, while Leminske will head the New York office with Bullet producer and music supervisor Patrick Oliver.
Thomas will relocate to Amsterdam to head the new Bullet office there.
“New York is our central base, but having offices on the West Coast and in Europe means having a deep talent pool to dip into and share with our clients,” Thomas noted. “Ideally, we’d like to have small production offices across the globe that are networked together and can share resources. There’s a demand now for producers who are not afraid to take an entire production into their own hands and work without traditional baggage, and that’s what we’re building with the addition of Damon and Andrea.”
“Agencies today,” observed Leminske, “are under a great deal of pressure from their clients to produce great work across all media that achieve results despite challenging budgets. Bullet, with its great producing ability coupled with its business management services, is an ideal resource for a lot of agencies. I’m excited to be a part of what they’re building.”
Bullet’s business model includes having an ensemble of savvy producers that agencies can tap into for ambitious projects. It’s a resource designed to help agencies keep their overheads low while still being able to access agency producer expertise.
Ron Cicero and Bo Clancey Launch Production House 34North
Executive producers Ron Cicero and Bo Clancey have teamed to launch 34North. The shop opens with a roster which includes accomplished directors Jan Wentz, Ben Nakamura Whitehouse, David Edwards and Mario Feil, as well as such up-and-coming filmmakers as Glenn Stewart and Chris Fowles. Nakamura Whitehouse, Edwards, Feil and Fowles come over from CoMPANY Films, the production company for which Cicero served as an EP for the past nearly five years. Director Wentz had most recently been with production house Skunk while Stewart now gains his first U.S. representation. EP Clancey was freelance producing prior to the formation of 34North. He and Cicero have known each other for some 25 years, recently reconnecting on a job directed by Fowles. Cicero said that he and Clancey “want to keep a highly focused roster where talent management can be one on one--where we all share in the directors’ success together.” Clancey also brings an agency pedigree to the new venture. “I started at Campbell Ewald in accounts, no less,” said Clancey. “I saw firsthand how much work agencies put in before we even see a script. You have to respect that investment. These agency experiences really shaped my approach to production--it’s about empathy, listening between the lines, and ultimately making the process seamless.” 34North represents a meeting point--both literally and creatively. Named after the latitude of Malibu, Calif., where the idea for the company was born, it also embraces the power of storytelling. “34North118West was the first GPS-enabled narrative,” Cicero explained. “That blend of art and technology, to captivate an audience, mirrors what we do here--create compelling work, with talented people, harnessing state-of-the-art... Read More