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    Jeff Beckerman joins Cult Production as executive producer

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    NEW YORK --

    Cult Production has named Jeff Beckerman to serve as executive producer. Beckerman will lead the company’s full-service post capabilities, which include editorial, 2D/3D animation, visual effects, motion graphics and finishing.

    Beckerman joins fellow executive producer Chavvah Stuart, who oversees the company’s live action and creative production services. The company’s talented postproduction staff includes colorist/Smoke artist Michael Dwass and head of 3D, animator Tanguy Bodivit.

    Beckerman first came to know Cult’s work this summer when he served as lead producer on a complex 60-second ad for Ralph Lauren’s “Polo Tech Shirt.”  Launched for the 2014 US Open tennis tournament, the project called for extensive 3D animation, motion graphics, editorial, visual effects and color grading/finishing, all within a tight three-week schedule.

    “Cult championed the 360-production studio model long before it became commonplace, working on high-end projects for some of the world’s top brands such as Apple, Microsoft, Calvin Klein, Nike and Atlantic Records, as well as global agencies like Leo Burnett, Publicis and Laird+Partners,” Beckerman said. “There’s an amazing amount of talent and technology here, and I’m looking forward to furthering Cult’s presence in the entertainment and advertising communities.”

    Previously, Beckerman worked on an array of global ad campaigns and won numerous awards over the last two decades as the founder/executive producer of BOND, which specialized in editorial, animation, motion graphics, CGI and visual effects for leading agencies, brands and TV networks.
     

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    Jules Feiffer, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Cartoonist and Writer, Dies At 95

    Tuesday, January 21, 2025

    Jules Feiffer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and writer whose prolific output ranged from a long-running comic strip to plays, screenplays and children's books, died Friday. He was 95 and, true to his seemingly tireless form, published his last book just four months ago.

    Feiffer's wife, writer JZ Holden, said Tuesday that he died of congestive heart failure at their home in Richfield Springs, New York, and was surrounded by friends, the couple's two cats and his recent artwork.

    Holden said her husband had been ill for a couple of years, "but he was sharp and strong up until the very end. And funny."

    Artistically limber, Feiffer hopscotched among numerous forms of expression, chronicling the curiosity of childhood, urban angst and other societal currents. To each he brought a sharp wit and acute observations of the personal and political relations that defined his readers' lives.

    As Feiffer explained to the Chicago Tribune in 2002, his work dealt with "communication and the breakdown thereof, between men and women, parents and children, a government and its citizens, and the individual not dealing so well with authority."

    Feiffer won the United States' most prominent awards in journalism and filmmaking, taking home a 1986 Pulitzer Prize for his cartoons and "Munro," an animated short film he wrote, won a 1961 Academy Award. The Library of Congress held a retrospective of his work in 1996.

    "My goal is to make people think, to make them feel and, along the way, to make them smile if not laugh," Feiffer told the South Florida Sun Sentinel in 1998. "Humor seems to me one of the best ways of espousing ideas. It gets people to listen with their guard down."

    Feiffer was born on Jan. 26, 1929, in the Bronx. From... Read More

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