Red Car Chicago has named Carrie Holecek, formerly executive producer at The Whitehouse, as managing director. She joins executive producer Jon Desir at the editorial boutique, which has been a Chicago mainstay for almost 20 years. At Red Car she will work closely with Desir and Chicago-based producer Nikki Piazza.
Holecek got her start in the industry as an associate producer at Fallon Worldwide in the mid-1990s. The Iowa native then moved to Los Angeles as a producer and marketing executive at EFILM, Technicolor and Company 3, working in each company’s feature departments. The Whitehouse position brought her home, both to advertising and the Midwest, in 2007.
Offering a client perspective on Holecek, Lisa Burke Snyder, director of production at mcgarrybowen in Chicago, said, “Carrie is the consummate professional. I appreciate her ability to offer smart and creative solutions to any roadblocks along the way. She is a calming presence in challenging situations.”
According to Red Car founder/editor Larry Bridges, bringing Holecek aboard is a key move in a management restructuring that began just over one year ago when Desir, who started at Red Car as an intern, was promoted to executive producer. “Carrie’s ability to not only supervise the rapidly evolving workflow of what postproduction is today, but also to help us grow the Red Car brand in the Midwest, were really appealing qualities,” said Bridges.
Recent work out of Red Car Chicago includes two new Coors Light spots featuring Ice Cube for agency Commonground, edited by Tim LoDolce, as well as a new R Kelley video, “Share My Love,” marking LoDolce’s seventh collaboration with the R&B star. Other notable projects include a Chrysler spot out of agency Global Hue starring Black Eyed Peas frontman will.i.am that was edited by Greg Sunmark and a spot for Joe’s Crab Shack, edited by Mike Coletta for agency Slingshot out of Red Car’s Dallas office.
The Red Car Chicago roster includes editor Bob Carr in addition to Coletta, LoDolce and Sunmark, along with graphic designer Kevin O’Rourke and finishing director Christopher Elliott. It is represented by Matt Bucher of Obsidian. All Red Car Chicago editors are available nationally through the Red Car offices in Dallas, New York and Los Angeles.
F1 Racing Champ Ayrton Senna’s High-Octane Life Is Focus Of New Netflix Series
Thirty years after his death in a high-speed crash viewed by millions around the world, Formula One champion Ayrton Senna's high-octane life is also about to play out in front of a global audience.
The legendary Brazilian driver — who was killed when his car hit a concrete wall at the San Marino Grand Prix in 1994 — is the subject of a six-episode Netflix series that debuts on Nov. 29 and follows him from his early go-kart days to that fatal Sunday afternoon at the Imola track in Italy.
Even three decades after that accident, few F1 figures evoke as much emotion and passion among fans and fellow drivers as Senna, who won three championship titles before his death at the age of 34.
Senna's complex personality — he was a saint to his millions of Brazilian fans and a sinner to some critics who deemed his driving style too aggressive — comes to life through Brazilian actor Gabriel Leone, who embraced the challenge of portraying such a popular figure.
"He was much more than an F1 driver for us, he became an icon, much beyond his technique and his driving," Leone told The Associated Press in an interview in Sao Paulo. "He had this humanity, this honesty. The things he said, his values, it all made him closer to people."
Senna's life and career had no shortage of made-for-TV moments.
This was a driver who once won a race with his car stuck in sixth gear in front of thousands of raucous fans at the Interlagos track. And who went from fifth position to first in one lap at the 1993 European Grand Prix. And who jumped out of his car during a training session to save the life of a French driver who had crashed.
On the track, his rivalry with French driver Alain Prost was one of the most intense that F1 has ever seen.... Read More