Agency goodness Mfg., a Trailer Park company, has hired Carl Corbitt and Anja Duering as co-creative directors. They make the move to goodness Mfg. from Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam where they were creative directors on Nokia, a global account they helped double for the Amsterdam office in under a year. They also spent three years at Crispin Porter + Bogusky as VP/associate creative directors, turning out integrated branding campaigns for a range of business and managing creative teams on Volkswagen and Geek Squad.
As co-CDs at goodness Mfg., Corbitt and Duering’s roles will span creative and strategy on all accounts, as well as new business pitches, according to Tom Adams, partner/executive creative director, goodness Mfg. Adams worked with the duo earlier on Geek Squad before leaving his CD post at CP+B to co-found goodness Mfg. “They have big ideas that they develop and move forward. They execute on strategy. And they are well versed in the digital space, so there’s no need to silo out work for different platforms.”
Their experience includes the Cannes Grand Prix-winning GTI “Fast” integrated campaign for VW, which Duering art directed at CP+B, and the Cannes/One Show/Andy-honored VW “Safe Happens” interactive campaign, which Corbitt wrote an array of different elements for at CP+B.
Directing and Editing “Conclave”; Insights From Edward Berger and Nick Emerson
It’s been a bruising election year but this time we’re referring to a ballot box struggle that’s more adult than the one you’d typically first think of in 2024. Rather, on the industry awards front, the election being cited is that of the Pope which takes front and center stage in director Edward Berger’s Conclave (Focus Features), based on the 2016 novel of the same title by Robert Harris. Adapted by screenwriter Peter Straugham, Conclave stars Ralph Fiennes as the cardinal leading the conclave that has convened to select the next Pope. While part political thriller, full of backstabbing and behind-closed-door machinations, Conclave also registers as a thoughtful adult drama dealing with themes such as a crisis of faith, weighing the greater good, and engaging in a struggle that’s as much about spirituality as the attainment of power.
Conclave is Berger’s first feature after his heralded All Quiet on the Western Front, winner of four Oscars in 2023, including for Best International Feature Film. And while Conclave would on the surface seem to be quite a departure from that World War I drama, there’s a shared bond of humanity which courses through both films.
For Berger, the heightened awareness of humanity hit home for him by virtue of where he was--in Rome, primarily at the famed Cinecittà studio--to shoot Conclave, sans any involvement from the Vatican. He recalled waking up in Rome to “soak up” the city. While having his morning espresso, Berger recollected looking out a window and seeing a priest walking about with a cigarette in his mouth, a nun having a cup of coffee, an archbishop carrying a briefcase. It dawned on Berger that these were just people going to... Read More