Great Guns has signed director Adam Cameron for global representation. He had most recently been handled stateside by Limey.
Among his recent endeavors are a Movistar piece featuring an Icelandic soccer team for DDB Madrid, and a pair of Chili’s spots for Hill Holliday, Boston. The former, which features the entertainingly offbeat goal-scoring celebrations of the football team, has gained pan-European exposure on both TV and cinema.
And the Chili’s fare, recently covered in the New York Times, includes a spot, “Boom, Boom, Boom,” in which a male office worker asks a female colleague if she wants to go to Chili’s with him that night. She breaks out into song, responding in the voice of bluesman John Lee Hooker.
Other Cameron directorial credits include spots for Lebron James Home Court furniture out of Mullen, Winston-Salem, N.C., Mobil featuring Lewis Hamilton and Tony Stewart for McCann, New York; and the Virginia Tobacco Settlement Fund via Barber Martin, Richmond, Va. For the latter, Cameron’s comedic spot titled “Forest” earned inclusion last year into SHOOT‘s “The Best Work You May Never See” gallery.
Cameron’s work is largely of an understated comedic tone. The director said he joined Great Guns for its global reach, including its mainstay U.K. operation under the aegis of company founder Laura Gregory, as well as its U.S. foothold headed by managing director Tom Korsan. While Cameron continues to maintain relationships with production houses Tesauro, Madrid and Barcelona, through which he helmed the Movistar project, and H Films in Milan, Great Guns will be in charge of his overall workload both in the U.S. and internationally.
Cameron has been directing solo for some four years. He made his first major directorial splash as half of the Joe Public duo with Simon Cole. Joe Public twice earned DGA Award nominations as Best Commercial Director of the Year on the basis of work done in 1999 and 2001. Joe Public split in late ’06, with Cameron’s first roost as an individual helmer being Biscuit Filmworks, followed by Company, and then Limey.
Great Guns maintains offices in Venice, Calif., London, Prague, Mumbai, Shanghai and Singapore.
Disney Pledges $15 million In L.A. Fire Aid As More Celebs Learn They’ve Lost Their Homes
The Pacific Palisades wildfires torched the home of "This Is Us" star Milo Ventimiglia, perhaps most poignantly destroying the father-to-be's newly installed crib.
CBS cameras caught the actor walking through his charred house for the first time, standing in what was once his kitchen and looking at a neighborhood in ruin. "Your heart just breaks."
He and his pregnant wife, Jarah Mariano, evacuated Tuesday with their dog and they watched on security cameras as the flames ripped through the house, destroying everything, including a new crib.
"There's a kind of shock moment where you're going, 'Oh, this is real. This is happening.' What good is it to continue watching?' And then at a certain point we just turned it off, like 'What good is it to continue watching?'"
Firefighters sought to make gains Friday during a respite in the heavy winds that fanned the flames as numerous groups pledged aid to help victims and rebuild, including a $15 million donation pledge from the Walt Disney Co.
More stars learn their homes are gone
While seeing the remains of his home, Ventimiglia was struck by a connection to his "This Is Us" character, Jack Pearson, who died after inhaling smoke in a house fire. "It's not lost on me life imitating art."
Mandy Moore, who played Ventimiglia's wife on "This Is Us," nearly lost her home in the Eaton fire, which scorched large areas of the Altadena neighborhood. She said Thursday that part of her house is standing but is unlivable, and her husband lost his music studio and all his instruments.
Mel Gibson's home is "completely gone," his publicist Alan Nierob confirmed Friday. The Oscar winner revealed the loss of his home earlier Friday while appearing on Joe Rogan's... Read More