Argonaut, the San Francisco-based advertising agency that is part of Project Worldwide, has brought on Jon Drawbaugh as its new head of production. A seasoned industry executive who has held senior-level production roles at agencies including R/GA, Wieden+Kennedy, Arnold Worldwide and DDB, Drawbaugh will oversee Argonaut’s integrated production discipline, including everything from film, print and interactive to business affairs and production operations. He will report directly to the agency’s founder and chief creative officer, Hunter Hindman.
For the last two years, Drawbaugh has worked with various shops as a freelance EP touching brands like Jack Daniel’s, Hardees, Dupont and Zulily, among others. Prior to that, he worked at Arnold Worldwide as EVP, director of integrated production, tasked with modernizing and integrating the agency’s production offerings across the Boston and New York City offices. Before that, he ran integrated production at DDB San Francisco, working across brands like Oracle, Slim Jim, Brita and Qualcomm, and Mullen LA, where he was charged with building a world-class production department and co-founding Yeti, their in-house production capability. Earlier in his career, he also had stints at FCB West and Goodby Silverstein & Partners.
“Argonaut already has a great production team in place – now it’s time to grow, push the envelope creatively and take the work to the next level. I’m looking forward to shepherding this department as the agency enters its next chapter,” said Drawbaugh. “Plus, I had the good fortune of working with Hunter at Goodby, so the opportunity to work with him again was a no-brainer.”
Drawbaugh’s appointment is the latest in a series of major hires for Argonaut. The agency recently welcomed Chad Leitz as its newest group creative director, tasked with creative oversight across several of the agency’s pieces of business including Fitbit. He joins the team by way of San Francisco-based creative consultancy, Eleven Inc, where he served as creative director overseeing the company’s Virgin America and Columbus Meats accounts. Throughout his career he’s also worked on Frito-Lay, Chevy, Google, Apple, Jack Daniel’s, Ocean Spray, and Progressive, among others.
To help round out the production team, Argonaut has also brought on Jim Vaughan as an executive producer, who’s served stints at The Cabinet, Misfit Workshop, Goodby and Arnold.
After 20 Years of Acting, Megan Park Finds Her Groove In The Director’s Chair On “My Old Ass”
Megan Park feels a little bad that her movie is making so many people cry. It's not just a single tear either — more like full body sobs.
She didn't set out to make a tearjerker with "My Old Ass," now streaming on Prime Video. She just wanted to tell a story about a young woman in conversation with her older self. The film is quite funny (the dialogue between 18-year-old and almost 40-year-old Elliott happens because of a mushroom trip that includes a Justin Bieber cover), but it packs an emotional punch, too.
Writing, Park said, is often her way of working through things. When she put pen to paper on "My Old Ass," she was a new mom and staying in her childhood bedroom during the pandemic. One night, she and her whole nuclear family slept under the same roof. She didn't know it then, but it would be the last time, and she started wondering what it would be like to have known that.
In the film, older Elliott ( Aubrey Plaza ) advises younger Elliott ( Maisy Stella ) to not be so eager to leave her provincial town, her younger brothers and her parents and to slow down and appreciate things as they are. She also tells her to stay away from a guy named Chad who she meets the next day and discovers that, unfortunately, he's quite cute.
At 38, Park is just getting started as a filmmaker. Her first, "The Fallout," in which Jenna Ortega plays a teen in the aftermath of a school shooting, had one of those pandemic releases that didn't even feel real. But it did get the attention of Margot Robbie 's production company LuckyChap Entertainment, who reached out to Park to see what other ideas she had brewing.
"They were very instrumental in encouraging me to go with it," Park said. "They're just really even-keeled, good people, which makes... Read More