Joseph Bell has become general manager of The Mill Los Angeles. Bell brings a wealth of experience from roles at companies such as Lucasfilm. Most recently he was the chief operating officer of film and television VFX company FuseFX.
Bell held a number of producer and EP roles for over a decade, while recently earning an MBA from UCLA. As GM of The Mill LA, he reports to Mill group COO Johnny Moore and will focus on driving the operational efficiencies that underpin The Mill’s continued delivery of groundbreaking creative work.
The Mill is recognized for pioneering creative technology initiatives, such as its recent collaboration with Universal Pictures on the Welcome to Marwen AR App. The Los Angeles studio also added to its portfolio of iconic commercial work with multiple USA Today Ad Meter-rated spots for Super Bowl 53, as well as other work that continues to be recognized with accolades from the AICP Show, Cannes Lions, and The Webbys.
The Mill’s co-founder and CEO Robin Shenfield stated, “This is an exciting hire for our Los Angeles studio. Joseph adds a layer of operational excellence to a studio that is making truly outstanding work for its clients.”
Jules Feiffer, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Cartoonist and Writer, Dies At 95
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