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    Hello and Company Signs Director Michael Norman

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    LOS ANGELES --

    Commercial director Michael Norman has joined Hello and Company. His work spans categories that include automotive, food and beverages, home improvement, finance, retail, and telecommunications spanning brands such as Toyota, McDonald’s, Sprint, 7-Up, JCPenney, NY Times, and American Express.

    Norman’s spot for Allergan’s eye drug Restasis was reported by Nielsen as the #1 most memorable TV spot of 2013 among women aged 13 and over. The ad, which delves into one patient’s journey living with chronic dry eye, was listed as the number 9 most memorable spot of the year overall across all demographics.

    Norman’s thoughtful approach to filmmaking can be attributed to the number of years he spent working as an editor. Originally from Alabama, Norman had an editing career that took him to work in major commercial production cities across the US.  It was in the South where a client gave him the opportunity to direct a campaign for a national retailer. The spots each consisted of single-scene performances and went on to win regional and national awards, opening the door to him pursuing directing full time.  >>

    Prior to joining Hello and Company, director Norman was handled by production house Mechaniks.

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    Raoul Peck Resurrects A Once-Forgotten Anti-Apartheid Photographer In “Ernest Cole: Lost and Found”

    Friday, November 22, 2024

    When the photographer Ernest Cole died in 1990 at the age of 49 from pancreatic cancer at a Manhattan hospital, his death was little noted.

    Cole, one of the most important chroniclers of apartheid-era South Africa, was by then mostly forgotten and penniless. Banned by his native country after the publication of his pioneering photography book "House of Bondage," Cole had emigrated in 1966 to the United States. But his life in exile gradually disintegrated into intermittent homelessness. A six-paragraph obituary in The New York Times ran alongside a list of death notices.

    But Cole receives a vibrant and stirring resurrection in Raoul Peck's new film "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found," narrated in Cole's own words and voiced by LaKeith Stanfield. The film, which opens in theaters Friday, is laced throughout with Cole's photographs, many of them not before seen publicly.

    As he did in his Oscar-nominated James Baldwin documentary "I Am Not Your Negro," the Haitian-born Peck shares screenwriting credit with his subject. "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found" is drawn from Cole's own writings. In words and images, Peck brings the tragic story of Cole to vivid life, reopening the lens through which Cole so perceptively saw injustice and humanity.

    "Film is a political tool for me," Peck said in a recent interview over lunch in Manhattan. "My job is to go to the widest audience possible and try to give them something to help them understand where they are, what they are doing, what role they are playing. It's about my fight today. I don't care about the past."

    "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found" is a movie layered with meaning that goes beyond Cole's work. It asks questions not just about the societies Cole documented but of how he was treated as an artist,... Read More

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