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    Camp + King hires Stacy McClain as head of content production

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    SAN FRANCISCO --

    Creative agency Camp + King has hired advertising vet Stacy McClain as its new director of content production. Announcement was made by the agency’s chief creative officer, Roger Camp.

    McClain got her start at Young & Rubicam, and went on to produce some of the first Got Milk? and Foster Farms Chicken campaigns at Goodby Silverstein & Partners. Later, she joined Black Rocket as director of broadcast, where she produced the first Yahoo spots. As a freelancer, she’s done commercials for the likes of MINI, AT&T, Visa and Priceline.

    McClain deepened her expertise with a stint as executive producer at a video effects house. She has shot on a glacier, blown up cars, worked with 15 different kinds of animals and tolerated celebrities, all in the name of art serving commerce.

    “After 15 years of freelancing and turning down multiple full-time offers, I’m thrilled that Stacy chose to be a part of Camp + King,” said Camp, who is also co-founder of the shop. “She’s got everything we need to continue to grow: She’s a wildly smart, passionate, problem solver who has proven to be unshakable.”

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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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