The Mill NY has made a series of new hires: Boo Wong as senior producer of design & content; Danielle Amaral as head of design production; sr. producer Jared Yeater; VFX supervisors Gong Myung Lee and Jeffrey Dates; sr. lighting TD Tom Bardwell; sr. animation TD Jeff Lopez; and art directors Emmett Dzieza and Bowe King.
The additions expand The Mill NY’s resources and expertise in VFX while continuing its diversification into new business offerings.
Wong previously served as head of production/exec producer at Psyop where she EP’d Coca-Cola’s lauded “Happiness Factory,” among other notable projects. Most recently, Amaral was sr. producer at Digital Kitchen, managing agencies and design teams on projects for brands such as Bing.com, Sony Music, and the U.S. Census. Yeater formerly served as head of production at Click 3X. He produced VFX for MTV’s 2009 VMA opening “VMA Side Story,” inspired by West Side Story and featuring Taylor Swift, Katie Perry and Russell Brand. The promo helped MTV director Seyi Peter-Thomas recently earn inclusion into SHOOT‘s 2010 New Directors Showcase.
Prior to joining The Mill, Lee was CG supervisor at Charlex, New York. Dates worked as CG/VFX supervisor for MassMarket, New York. Bardwell had been freelancing as lighting TD/3D artist at several shops, including The Mill. Lopez was most recently on staff at Psyop. Dzieza freelanced at The Mill on two Ford F-150 spots before coming on staff. King had been collaborating on graphics and supplemental design for Iron Man 2 while working with New York-based Perception.
Director Cassandra Brooksbank Joins Monument Content For Spots and Branded Content
Monument Content has signed director Cassandra “Cassie” Brooksbank for U.S. representation spanning commercials and branded content. She brings to her directing and storytelling the experience and skills of a writer, conceptual artist, editor and visual effects artist.
Her body of work as a director includes Pepsi’s “Selfie” featuring Lionel Messi amid a flurry of fans, Barclays madcap women’s Soccer League spot where she collaborated closely with the agency to develop the creative, ultimately winning the Grand Jury Prize at the Sports Industry Awards, and a grass-roots campaign for Fellow Coffee. The latter just didn’t brew buzz; it helped raise $1.2 million on Kickstarter.
Prior to joining Monument Content, Brooksbank had been repped in the U.S. for commercials by production house Hey Wonderful.
On the long-form front, she is repped by CAA for film and television. And on the horizon is her debut feature, My Masterpiece, produced by Sylvester Stallone’s Balboa Productions and backed by Amazon.
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