Global creative agency Ralph has entered into a partnership with Tulsea, a strategic talent and content management company based in India, that will bring together expertise across talent, brands and content.
Expanding on Ralph’s mission to make content people love and share, the new partnership with Tulsea and its deep roster of talent brings this offering to life in more effective, global, and creative ways. By matching the right talent and curious creatives, they will help adventurous clients to grow and develop authentic relationships with passionate communities.
Combined services will include strategic advisory across brand, audience outreach, social media and content, along with content production and ideation, and distribution strategies.
“For the past 20 years, we have always been driven to evolve ourselves creatively and take on new challenges,” said Chris Hassell, CEO, founder of Ralph, headquartered in London with offices in New York, Los Angeles and Tokyo. “I can’t wait to work with Tulsea and offer a new level of original content creation, taking brands and their relationship with audiences to new heights.” Ralph clients include Netflix, Amazon Prime, Spotify, SkyTV, Lionsgate, Disney+, Hulu and AppleTV+.
“Ralph’s team and work embody a spirit and culture of light-heartedness and top-notch creativity,” said Datta Dave, CEO, co-founder of the Mumbai-based Tulsea. “We represent the largest roster of high-quality writers and directors across India, and look forward to enabling our talent in more exciting ways to help brands through this partnership.”
This partnership follows the launch of Ralph magazine across key global markets. Celebrating “Pop Culture For The Fun Of It,” the magazine covers all things that make life worth living, including music, film, TV, food and drink, comedy and comics.
Ralph and Tulsea will host a combined magazine launch and partnership party on Friday (10/11) at Khar Social in Mumbai.
A Custom Lego Fit For Pharrell Williams and Morgan Neville In “Piece by Piece”
When Pharrell Williams and Morgan Neville decided to embark on a movie about Williams' life but animated in Lego pieces, they knew there would be culture shocks. But making "Piece by Piece" still led to some places that neither Williams, Neville or Lego could foresee.
"We did have extensive conversations about how wide a back of a bikini bottom would be on a minifig in a 'Rump Shaker' video," says director Neville, chuckling. "We had many discussions about things I thought I would never be talking about as a filmmaker."
"Piece by Piece" did not come with any easy-to-assemble instructions. It's part music biopic, part documentary, part family film. It is, like many things about Williams' hit-making life, radiant with uplift, beats and idiosyncrasy.
"Society likes to put us in boxes, pun intended," Williams says, speaking alongside Neville. "Here was a moment where this guy's view of my life and the way he saw it strung together was incredibly liberating for me. While I've never seen myself in a box, this helps other people now to, as well."
"Piece by Piece," which Focus Features releases in theaters Friday, begins, like many documentaries, with the director, Neville, sitting down with a camera crew focused on their subject, Williams. But in this case, Williams — and everything else, including a bearded, bespectacled Neville — are Lego.
"What if we told my life with Legos?" Williams asks in the film. "That'll never happen," replies Neville.
What follows is something like a traditional documentary complete with colorful recounting of past struggles and triumphs, from his upbringing in Virginia Beach to his string of chart-topping hits, told through Williams' voiceover and a number of talking heads. It was recorded that... Read More