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    Jason Musante Becomes Exec Creative Director At Havas Worldwide

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    Jason Musante
    NEW YORK --

    Jason Musante has joined Havas Worldwide’s New York office as an executive creative director. He comes over from Anomaly where he was the creative director leading the Google Glass global launch. Prior to that, he was Co:Collective’s first senior creative hire, leading the re-launch of USA Today and Google+ as well as being a major contributor to the Microsoft business.

    Musante has also held senior digital and innovation roles at BBDO New York and Saatchi NY. While at BBDO, he created one of GE’s first award-winning social initiatives, “The Ecomagination Photo Project,” and worked on everything from FedEx to HBO. At Saatchi, he was part of the team that made the award-winning, funny viral hit “Beware of the Doghouse” for JCPenney. Musante’s creative success started early in his career, with McKinney & Silver’s groundbreaking “Art of the Heist” work for Audi.

    “When it comes to moving seamlessly and brilliantly across content, digital, social and experiential, Jason is one of the very best creatives out there, and he has the awards and business successes to prove it. He’s a courageous leader, smart innovator, and a fighter for great work that works. He’s worked for some of the best people at some of the best agencies on some of the very best brands,” said Darren Moran, chief creative officer, Havas Worldwide NY and North America.

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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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