Camp+King (C+K) has added editor Prav Potu, designer Joey Faccio and visual designer Justin Marimon to its ensemble of talent.
Potu has worked on everything from commercial projects to documentary films. He has had a busy freelance career for the past four years editing for AKQA, Eleven Inc., West SF and several other local agencies. From 2011 to 2013, he was editor at BBDO San Francisco, where he filmed and edited content, prepared agency content for pitches and created award case studies.
After graduating from Ringling College of Art and Design as its trustee scholar, Faccio moved west to pursue ad/design agency and freelance opportunities. Five years later, Faccio has a portfolio filled with designs for clients such as Toyota, Under Armour, MTV Networks, Microsoft, ABC, Bacardi, Lexus and G-Eazy.
Marimon joins C+K after a recent move to the Bay Area from the Midwest. A multi-talented designer with four-plus years of experience, he has worked with industrial designers, branding studios and commercial photographers to create iconic imagery and design solutions. Marimon is passionate about exploring new mediums and hopes to expand his skills to include 3D rendering and animation.
“We’re stoked to have Joey, Justin and Prav on board. They each bring a skill set that’ll elevate the work we do here at C+K,” said creative director Rikesh Lal.
Review: Director Tyler Spindel’s “Kinda Pregnant”
We have by now become accustomed to the lengths some movie characters will go to keep a good comedy lie going. But it's still a special kind of feat when Amy Schumer, playing a baby-mad single woman who fakes a baby bump in "Kinda Pregnant," is so desperate to maintain the fiction that she shoves a roast turkey up her dress.
You might be thinking: This is too ridiculous. The stuffing, alone. But if we bought "Some Like it Hot" and "Mrs. Doubtfire," I see no reason to quibble with the set-up of "Kinda Pregnant," a funny and often perceptive satire on motherhood, both real and pretend.
"Kinda Pregnant," which debuted Wednesday on Netflix, is a kinda throwback comedy. Like "40-Year-Old Virgin" and "Wedding Crashers," you can basically get the movie just from its title.
But like any good high-concept comedy, "Kinda Pregnant" is predominantly a far-fetched way for its star and co-writer, Schumer, to riff frankly on her chosen topic. Here, that's the wide gamut of pregnancy experience — the body changes, the gender reveal parties, the personal jealousies — all while mixing in a healthy amount of pseudo-pregnant pratfalls.
It's been a decade since Schumer was essentially launched as a movie star in the 2015 Judd Apatow-directed "Trainwreck." But "Kinda Pregnant," which Schumer wrote with Julie Paiva, almost as adeptly channels Schumer's comic voice — the one that made the sketch series "Inside Amy Schumer" so great.
The movie's opening flashes back to Lainey (Schumer) as a child playing with dolls and imagining herself a mother-to-be. So committed is she to the role that Lainey, in mock-labor, screams at her friend and then politely apologies: "Sorry, but the expectant mother often lashes out at her support system."
But as... Read More