Kate Catalinac and Corinne Goode have come aboard BBDO San Francisco as creative directors, They will report to chief creative officer Matt Miller, and partner to work across the agency’s expanding roster of clients.
Catalinac has spent the past eight years at Goodby Silverstein & Partners where she created highly effective campaigns for clients including GOT MILK?, Kayak.com, and Princess Cruises. Prior to this, Catalinac worked at Saatchi & Saatchi New Zealand on the New Zealand Army account. Her work has been recognized at Cannes, The One Show, Clios, Addy’s and Effies.
Goode was most recently sr. art director at DDB Auckland, where she worked across brands such as New Zealand Lotteries, McDonald’s, Sky TV and Lion Nathan Wine and Beer. Her work has been awarded at Cannes, D&AD, The One Show and Spikes.
“As an agency we are only as good as the people who work here. Which is why I’m so excited that Kate and Corinne decided to work at BBDO San Francisco,” said Miller. “As creatives they are intelligent, innovative and strategic. As leaders they are visionary, kind and nurturing. All those abilities, coupled with their experience and perspective, will undoubtedly make us an even better agency.”
BBDO San Francisco has experienced great momentum over the past year. The agency recently expanded responsibilities on Mattel to include the Hot Wheels and Fisher Price brands. They’ve also added additional business on Mars. In addition, their recent work for Barbie has been recognized at Cannes Lions, The Webby Awards, The One Show, Art Directors Club and the Epica Awards.
Review: Writer-Director Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substance”
In its first two hours, "The Substance" is a well-made, entertaining movie. Writer-director Coralie Fargeat treats audiences to a heavy dose of biting social commentary on ageism and sexism in Hollywood, with a spoonful of sugar- and sparkle-doused body horror.
But the film's deliciously unhinged, blood-soaked and inevitably polarizing third act is what makes it unforgettable.
What begins as a dread-inducing but still relatively palatable sci-fi flick spirals deeper into absurdism and violence, eventually erupting โ quite literally โ into a full-blown monster movie. Let the viewer decide who the monster is.
Fargeat โ who won best screenplay at this year's Cannes Film Festival โ has been vocal about her reverence for "The Fly" director David Cronenberg, and fans of the godfather of body horror will see his unmistakable influence. But "The Substance" is also wholly unique and benefits from Fargeat's perspective, which, according to the French filmmaker, has involved extensive grappling with her own relationship to her body and society's scrutiny.
"The Substance" tells the story of Elisabeth Sparkle, a famed aerobics instructor with a televised show, played by a powerfully vulnerable Demi Moore. Sparkle is fired on her 50th birthday by a ruthless executive โ a perfectly cast Dennis Quaid, who nails sleazy and gross.
Feeling rejected by a town that once loved her and despairing over her bygone star power, Sparkle learns from a handsome young nurse about a black-market drug that promises to create a "younger, more beautiful, more perfect" version of its user. Though she initially tosses the phone number in the trash, she soon fishes it out in a desperate panic and places an order.
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