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    Kevin Jones Named Chief Creative Officer Of CP+B LA

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    LOS ANGELES --

    CP+B has promoted Kevin Jones to chief creative officer in L.A. In this new role, Jones will lead the creative department of CP+B’s Los Angeles office and the work created for PayPal, video game franchise NBA 2K and Charles Schwab.  Jones will also head up creative on global work for Infiniti, which is in the process of moving from CP+B Boulder to capitalize on L.A.’s rich automotive culture and be in closer proximity to the Infiniti Design Center teams.

    Since 2014, Jones has acted as executive creative director at CP+B LA, leading creative development on the noted “Be the Story” campaign starring Spike Lee for video game NBA 2K16, which broke franchise sales records and doubled digital revenue over the prior year. Jones also led the winning pitch for the global PayPal account, which resulted in high-profile brand firsts. PayPal’s first UK Christmas spot, titled “No Presents”, was ranked the number three most effective UK Christmas ad by Millward Brown. PayPal’s first ever Super Bowl spot, titled “New Money,” was also well received.

    Jones’ promotion comes after Robin Fitzgerald was upped last week to exec creative director at CP+B LA.

    Jones joined CP+B from Wieden+Kennedy where he spent most of the past 20 years working on numerous high-profile campaigns that have become a part of pop culture. His work has won him back-to-back Emmys for the Chrysler Eminem Super Bowl spot and the noted P&G Olympic spot “Best Job,” the most talked about campaign during the London Summer Olympics. He was also nominated for an Emmy for the powerful Clint Eastwood Chrysler spot. Jones has created award-winning campaigns for Dodge, Coke, Nike, Target and T-Mobile. His work has been honored with eight Gold Lions at Cannes, Best of Show at the AICP, One Show, and Clios, The Grand Effie and a Webby People’s Voice award, among others. His work is in the Library of Congress as well as The Museum of Modern Art’s collection. An accomplished musician and writer, Jones has received fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas, where he is a graduate of their MFA program. He was a finalist for the Keene Prize in literature and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

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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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