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    Matt Blitz Joins DDB Chicago As SVP, Exec Producer

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    Matt Blitz
    CHICAGO --

    Matt Blitz has been named senior VP, executive producer at DDB Chicago. He will report to Diane Jackson, DDB Chicago’s chief production officer.

    With more than 20 years of production experience, Blitz has executed creative ideas, spanning platforms and disciplines, that have garnered global recognition and attention. Blitz joins DDB Chicago from Leo Burnett where he was a sr. VP, exec producer, and led production globally on the Samsung account. Additionally, he was responsible for managing the production teams for Nintendo, Esurance, and UnitedHealthcare, among other brands. Blitz has received accolades across every major award show including Art Directors Club, D&AD and the One Show. Most recently, Blitz won seven Lions at this year’s Cannes Festival of Creativity for Samsung’s “Ostrich.” 
     
    Blitz’s arrival at DDB Chicago supports the agency’s commitment to investing in and attracting top creative talent. DDB Chicago’s Jackson and chief creative officer John Maxham have been focused on cultivating a creative team of inventors, storytellers and artists with a depth and breadth of skills that can deliver innovative ideas. 
     
    “With creative talent at the heart of our business model, Matt will have the opportunity to create a meaningful impact on our client’s business,” said Jackson. 
     
    Prior to joining the agency world, Blitz worked as assistant director on several films and multiple television series, giving him a sense of production not typical for many advertising producers.

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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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