EP John McAdorey moves to NY office which plans to expand its production capabilities
The Martin Agency has hired Letitia Jacobs as sr. VP/executive producer. She most recently served as executive director of content production at Y&R NY. In addition to freelancing on several Martin projects during the years, Jacobs started her career at The Martin Agency as an associate producer from 1995-1999.
Jacobs returns to The Martin Agency with 20 years experience and a strong portfolio of work producing for top flight creative agencies including Wieden + Kennedy, Droga5, Mother and Fallon.
“As a native of Richmond, I am thrilled to be coming home to work with one of the top agencies in the country,” said Jacobs. “Martin is the perfect place to make great work with great people like [EVP/managing director-production & development] Steve Humble and his team who are true believers and supporters of production as a whole.”
In addition to Jacobs’ arrival, The Martin Agency will be expanding production capabilities in its New York office.
“We are doing a swap with New York moving Letitia to Richmond and moving long-time executive producer John McAdorey to our 5th Avenue office to build up our content and digital production capabilities there,” Humble shared.
The Martin Agency maintains offices in Richmond, NY and London.
Review: Director Morgan Neville’s “Piece by Piece”
A movie documentary that uses only Lego pieces might seem an unconventional choice. When that documentary is about renowned musician-producer Pharrell Williams, it's actually sort of on-brand.
"Piece by Piece" is a bright, clever song-filled biopic that pretends it's a behind-the-scenes documentary using small plastic bricks, angles and curves to celebrate an artist known for his quirky soul. It is deep and surreal and often adorable. Is it high concept or low? Like Williams, it's a bit of both.
Director Morgan Neville — who has gotten more and more experimental exploring other celebrity lives like Fred Rogers in "Won't You Be My Neighbor?,""Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain" and "Steve! (Martin): A Documentary in Two Pieces" — this time uses real interviews but masks them under little Lego figurines with animated faces. Call this one a documentary in a million pieces.
The filmmakers try to explain their device — "What if nothing is real? What if life is like a Lego set?" Williams says at the beginning — but it's very tenuous. Just submit and enjoy the ride of a poor kid from Virginia Beach, Virginia, who rose to dominate music and become a creative director at Louis Vuitton.
Williams, by his own admission, is a little detached, a little odd. Music triggers colors in his brain — he has synesthesia, beautifully portrayed here — and it's his forward-looking musical brain that will make him a star, first as part of the producing team The Neptunes and then as an in-demand solo producer and songwriter.
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