Diego Medvedocky has been promoted to president of Grey Latin America. In addition, he will retain his responsibilities as chief creative officer of Grey Latin America and president of Grey Argentina. He will continue to work closely with Marco Milesi, CEO of Grey Latin America.
Medvedocky joined Grey Argentina as ECD in 2013. He was appointed CCO of Grey Latin America, overseeing the creative product across 14 offices in the region, in 2014. Last year, he was promoted to president of Grey Argentina.
Under Medvedocky’s creative leadership, Grey Argentina has doubled the agency’s revenue as well as the number of clients and has been awarded as “The Best Agency in Argentina” at the prestigious Diente Awards twice. Grey Argentina became the most award-winning agency in the market at national and international festivals for two years running.
The agency has made a major contribution to Grey Latin America’s creative renaissance: the region was named the Cannes Lions Regional Network of the Year, based on award performance, in 2017 and 2018.
Medvedocky said, “I want to work with Marco (Milesi) in the region and put it on top. But what I like most of all, is the message of the network of putting creativity above and at the center of the entire organization.”
Michael Houston, worldwide CEO of Grey Group, said, “Diego is one of the most recognized and awarded creative leaders in Latin America and beyond. He has put creativity at the heart of our operations and made it a growth engine. His passion and track record for building brands across platforms will serve us well in the years ahead.”
Review: Malcolm Washington Makes His Feature Directing Debut With “The Piano Lesson”
An heirloom piano takes on immense significance for one family in 1936 Pittsburgh in August Wilson's "The Piano Lesson." Generational ties also permeate the film adaptation, in which Malcolm Washington follows in his father Denzel Washington's footsteps in helping to bring the entirety of The Pittsburgh Cycle — a series of 10 plays — to the screen.
Malcolm Washington did not start from scratch in his accomplished feature filmmaking debut. He enlisted much of the cast from the recent Broadway revival with Samuel L. Jackson (Doaker Charles), his brother, John David Washington (Boy Willie), Ray Fisher (Lymon) and Michael Potts (Whining Boy). Berniece, played by Danielle Brooks in the play, is now beautifully portrayed by Danielle Deadwyler. With such rich material and a cast for whom it's second nature, it would be hard, one imagines, to go wrong. Jackson's own history with the play goes back to its original run in 1987 when he was Boy Willie.
It's not the simplest thing to make a play feel cinematic, but Malcolm Washington was up to the task. His film opens up the world of the Charles family beyond the living room. In fact, this adaptation, which Washington co-wrote with "Mudbound" screenwriter Virgil Williams, goes beyond Wilson's text and shows us the past and the origins of the intricately engraved piano that's central to all the fuss. It even opens on a big, action-filled set piece in 1911, during which the piano is stolen from a white family's home. Another fleshes out Doaker's monologue in which he explains to the uninitiated, Fisher's Lymon, and the audience, the tortured history of the thing. While it might have been nice to keep the camera on Jackson, such a great, grounding presence throughout, the good news is that he really makes... Read More