Director Max Joseph has joined the roster of Hungry Man which was initially drawn to his “Follow the Frog” work for the Rainforest Alliance. A clever approach to short-form advocacy filmmaking, “Follow the Frog” has garnered industry acclaim, the most recent recognition being its winning Gold at the EPICA Award show in the Public Interest category. The three-minute romp through Central America was written, directed and edited by Joseph.
As a triple threat–conceptualizing, directing and editing–Joseph last year saw his Toms Shoes’ “Get Out And Play” spot earn inclusion into SHOOT‘s “The Best Work You May Never See” gallery (7/8/11). And our end-of-year readers’ poll had that project tied for second as the best of “The Best Work You May Never See” entries for 2011. This spot gave new meaning to the phrase “concert in the park” as folks strip down to white and black skivvies/sweats and lay down in the grass in a configuration that resembles a piano keyboard. Each person in this keyboard is wearing white classic summer Toms shoes. The alternating black and white “keys” move to seemingly produce a piano riff that’s easy on the ears. A super reads, “Get out and play,” with a tag touting Toms’ classic summer shoes.
Joseph made his first mark as creative director of video at GOOD Mag for two-and-a-half years. He honed his filmmaking skills at GOOD, where he wrote and directed over 60 films for clients such as Pepsi, Prius and Ford. He went on to helm the short films Saab Story and Atomic Alert which then screened at festivals such as Sundance and Telluride. His work has screened at LACMA, BAM, The Gagosian Gallery in New York and has been featured many times on the front pages of YouTube, FunnyOrDie, and DailyMotion accumulating over 30 million views so far. He’s also directed and edited commercials for Starbucks and Nike.
Currently Joseph is co-starring in MTV’s new docu-series Catfish, a modified version of–and with the same title as–the noted documentary released in 2010 and directed by Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman (a.k.a. Henry & Rel who are handled by Moxie Pictures for spots and branded content).
Trump Names Brendan Carr To Lead The FCC
President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday named Brendan Carr, the senior Republican on the Federal Communications Commission, as the new chairman of the agency tasked with regulating broadcasting, telecommunications and broadband.
Carr is a longtime member of the commission and served previously as the FCC's general counsel. He has been unanimously confirmed by the Senate three times and was nominated by both Trump and President Joe Biden to the commission.
The FCC is an independent agency that is overseen by Congress, but Trump has suggested he wanted to bring it under tighter White House control, in part to use the agency to punish TV networks that cover him in a way he doesn't like.
Carr has of late embraced Trump's ideas about social media and tech. Carr wrote a section devoted to the FCC in " Project 2025," a sweeping blueprint for gutting the federal workforce and dismantling federal agencies in a second Trump administration produced by the conservative Heritage Foundation.
Trump has claimed he doesn't know anything about Project 2025, but many of its themes have aligned with his statements.
Carr said in a statement congratulating Trump on his win that he believed "the FCC will have an important role to play reining in Big Tech, ensuring that broadcasters operate in the public interest, and unleashing economic growth."
"Commissioner Carr is a warrior for Free Speech, and has fought against the regulatory Lawfare that has stifled Americans' Freedoms, and held back our Economy," Trump said in a statement on Sunday. "He will end the regulatory onslaught that has been crippling America's Job Creators and Innovators, and ensure that the FCC delivers for rural America."
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