Kerri Stumpo named head of media & communications strategy; Jake Bayham promoted to head of strategy
Advertising agency Butler, Shine, Stern & Partners (BSSP) has hired Liz Corsini as head of production and Kerri Stumpo as head of media and communications strategy. The Sausalito-based shop has also promoted Jake Bayham to head of strategy. All three will report directly to BSSP CEO Tracey Pattani. Additionally Nicole Schofield has come aboard as executive integrated producer, reporting to Corsini.
Corsini brings over 20 years of experience to her new roost, working for agencies across New York City, Los Angeles and the United Kingdom. During her long freelance career, she worked for shops such as 72andSunny, Anomaly, Cashmere Agency and Tool, and helped create award-winning work for the likes of Apple, Jaguar, Google, Facebook and Activision. Her work has been recognized domestically and globally by Cannes Lions, Clios, One Show Pencils, Communication Arts, Webby’s, AICPs and the London International Awards. At BSSP, Corsini will oversee the production team and manage the agency’s in-house content studio from her homebase in L.A.
An award-winning media leader with 13 years industry experience across the QSR, CPG, financial services, travel and entertainment spaces, Stumpo has a passion for marrying media and creative. In her new role, while based in Chicago, Stumpo will be responsible for leading media intelligence, strategy, investment and performance across all channels, working closely with clients to help evolve their media strategies. She’ll also be collaborating closely with teams across the agency to help grow BSSP’s integrated media/creative capability. Stumpo joins BSSP from OMD, where she served as sr. director, integrated planning, leading integrated media and communications strategy for McDonald’s largest national business unit. Prior to that, Stumpo held senior media positions at PHD Worldwide, Publicis Health Media and MediaHub//Mullen.
Bayham has over the last two years at BSSP overseen strategy on key clients including ESPN, NBA 2K, Sovos Brands, Blue Shield and Mitsubishi, helping uncover insights that have led to the agency’s most memorable work. Prior to joining BSSP, He spent several years at Venables Bell & Partners leading strategy efforts on Chipotle and Reebok.
Executive integrated producer Schofield joins BSSP from CP+B to oversee production on accounts including ESPN, FootJoy and Sovos Brands. She brings a wealth of knowledge, amassed over the past 16 years working at numerous agencies–big and small–which she’ll use to help build out BSSP’s production department and realize ambitious work.
Tilda Swinton Explores Assisted Suicide In Pedro Almodóvar’s 1st English-Language Feature
Although "The Room Next Door" is Pedro Almodóvar's first English-language feature, Tilda Swinton notes that he's never written in a language that anyone else truly speaks.
"He writes in Pedro language, and here he is making another film in another version of Pedro language, which just happens to sound a little bit like English," Swinton said.
Set in New York, Swinton stars as Martha, a terminally ill woman who chooses to end her life on her own terms. After reconnecting with her friend Ingrid, played by Julianne Moore, Martha persuades her to stay and keep her company before she goes through with her decision.
Beyond the film's narrative, Swinton said she believes individuals should have a say in their own living and dying. She acknowledges that she has personally witnessed a friend's compassionate departure.
"In my own life I had the great good fortune to be asked by someone in Martha's position to be his Ingrid (Julianne Moore)," Swinton said.
She said that experience shaped her attitude about life and death: "Not only my capacity to be witness to other people in that situation, but my own living and my own dying."
Swinton spoke about "The Room Next Door," Almodóvar and he idea of letting people die on their own terms. Remarks have been edited for clarity and brevity.
Q: Tackling that role, what was the challenge to get into the character?
SWINTON: I felt really blessed by the opportunity. So many of us have been in the situation Julianne Moore's character finds herself in, being asked to be the witness of someone who is dying. Whether that wanting to orchestrate their own dismount or not, to be in that position to be a witness is something that I've been... Read More