Indie ad and marketing agency Eclipse Advertising is expanding its brand strategy and marketing team. Concurrently, Eclipse has named Leila Amirsadeghi as VP, client development. The announcement was made by Steve Dubb, CEO/president, Eclipse.
Amirsadeghi joins one of her former colleagues from Trailer Park who is based at Eclipse, executive creative director Glenn Sanders. The agency is adding to its entertainment industry experience by now offering its extensive creative marketing services to new major brand clients.
Eclipse recently partnered with Disney and Marvel to launch a global campaign for the blockbuster hit film “Captain America: Civil War” through conceptual, visual, and technological innovation. Sanders was at the helm leading the charge creating the official site for the film. Both the movie and the marketing campaign were centered on the face-off between Captain America and Iron Man. The Eclipse digital team combined those elements into a single, groundbreaking mobile user experience through its unique functionality. When the mobile device is upright, the site is dedicated to “Team Cap.” When turned upside-down, it’s concentrated on “Team Iron Man.” Through extensive app development and design, Eclipse seamlessly made the site operate across all devices and browsers.
Prior to joining Eclipse, Amirsadeghi was CEO/founder of MESH, a consulting group focused on growth through strategy and relationships for diverse clients. As VP of client engagement across Trailer Park & Goodness Mfg, Amirsadeghi led business development and strategic client partnerships for brands and entertainment clients.
Before her stint at Trailer Park, Amirsadeghi headed up business development at the digital agency BLITZ, with clients including Xbox, John Mayer, Alpine, Starbucks, Adobe, Activision, Better Place, Dell, Disney, Dole, Mattel, Microsoft and NBC. Earlier, she was director of business development at digital agency iChameleon Group, until it was acquired by Sapient.
The Hottest Ticket At Sundance: Writer-Director Mary Bronstein’s “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You”
Rose Byrne plays a mother in the midst of a breakdown in the experiential psychological thriller "If I Had Legs I'd Kick You."
Anticipation was high for the A24 film, which will be released sometime this year. Its premiere Friday at the Sundance Film Festival was easily the hottest ticket in town, with even ticketholders unable to get in. Those who did make it into the Library theater were treated to an intense, visceral, inventive story from filmmaker Mary Bronstein that has quickly become one of the festival's must-sees.
Byrne plays Linda, who is barely hanging on while managing her daughter's mysterious illness. She's faced with crisis after crisis, big and small — from the massive, gaping hole in their apartment ceiling that forces them to move to a dingy motel, to an escalating showdown with a parking attendant at a care center. The cracks in her psychological, emotional and physical wellbeing are become too much to bear.
"I'd never seen a movie before where a mother is going through a crisis with a child but our energy is not with the child's struggle, it's with the mother's," Bronstein said at the premiere. "If you're a caretaker, you shouldn't be bothering with yourself at all. It should all be about the person you're taking care of, right? And that is a particular kind of emotional burnout state that I was really interested in exploring."
Byrne and Bronstein went deep in the preparation phase, having long discussions about Linda with the goal of making her as real as possible before the quick, 27-day shoot. Byrne said she was obsessed with figuring out who Linda was before the crisis. The film was in part inspired by Bronstein's experience with her own daughter, but she didn't want to elaborate on the... Read More