Bicoastal production house Supply & Demand has hired Jeff Scruton as managing director and executive producer. Based at Supply and Demand's L.A. office, Scruton will liaise between the creative and business departments headed by founder and managing partner Tim Case and president and managing partner Charles Salice, respectively.
Scruton will take the reins from Kira Carstensen, who after seven years as Supply & Demand's EP/partner, is leaving to open the Pulse USA office as president of its commercial division.
Scruton has spent the past two years as president of Motion Theory (Mth).Prior to that he was at MJZ for 17 years. He joined when the company was in its infancy and helped steer its growth into one of the industry's most dominant players, overseeing hundreds of high profile projects that garnered recognition from Cannes, the DGA, the One Show, the AICP and the D&AD among many others.
Supply & Demand founder, Tim Case, stated, "Kira's departure is bittersweet. I regret her departure but am very happy that she has found a new and exciting opportunity with Pulse. I have heard nothing but good things about them and their team in London. Kira has been a terrific complement to Charles and myself….That said, we feel very, very fortunate that Jeff became available to us just as Kira was considering her options. Jeff and I worked together for some time back when I represented MJZ in the later '90s. Having someone of Jeff's caliber, experience, creativity and character join the company is exciting and hugely comforting for me."
Carstensen said, "Tim, Charles and the entire staff are like family to me and I am sad to be leaving my home of the last seven years. But I am thrilled to be turning the West Coast office over to Jeff's strong hands and excited about my new adventure with Pulse."
Kamala Harris Receives Chairman’s Prize At NAACP Image Awards
Former Vice President Kamala Harris stepped on the NAACP Image Awards stage Saturday night with a sobering message, calling the civil rights organization a pillar of the Black community and urging people to stay resilient and hold onto their faith during the tenure of President Donald Trump.
"While we have no illusions about what we are up against in this chapter in our American story, this chapter will be written not simply by whoever occupies the oval office nor by the wealthiest among us," Harris said after receiving the NAACP's Chairman's Award. "The American story will be written by you. Written by us. By we the people."
The 56th annual Image Awards was held at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in the Los Angeles area.
Harris, defeated by Trump in last year's presidential election, was the first woman and the first person of color to serve as vice president. She had previously been a U.S. senator from California and the state's attorney general.
In her first major public appearance since leaving office, Harris did not reference her election loss or Trump's actions since entering the Oval Office, although Trump mocked her earlier in the day at the Conservative Political Action Conference.
Harris spoke about eternal vigilance, the price of liberty, staying alert, seeking the truth and America's future.
"Some see the flames on our horizons, the rising waters in our cities, the shadows gathering over our democracy and ask 'What do we do now?'" Harris said. "But we know exactly what to do, because we have done it before. And we will do it again. We use our power. We organize, mobilize. We educate. We advocate. Our power has never come from having an easy path."
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