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    Neil Tardio Jr. Joins Newly Branded MRS. BOND As Director/Partner

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    MARINA DEL REY, Calif --

    Director Neil Tardio Jr. has joined the roster of MRS. BOND for exclusive U.S. spot representation and will be a partner in the newly branded production house which previously operated under the Recommended Media banner. The company is headed by founder Stephen Dickstein and executive producer/partner Jeff Rohrer.

    Tardio is best known for his comedy and storytelling work for clients such as AT&T, Budweiser, Coca-Cola, ESPN, McDonald’s, Nike, Virgin and Volkswagen. He has been honored with multiple Cannes Lions, Clios, Addys, Tellys, London Art Directors Awards and a Peabody, among other accolades. Tardio had most recently been at production house Savage.

    “My passion for dialogue-driven storytelling led me to eventually find comedy,” said Tardio who rose to prominence creating the 1996 Peabody Award-winning “Rock The Vote” special for Madonna. “It’s been quite a journey, and the bottom line is that nothing beats great writing.” After graduating from Boston University, Tardio began his career as an agency producer and writer for such agencies as Saatchi & Saatchi New York and DDB Chicago before launching into a full-time directing career. He went on to direct 32 episodes of a children’s sports program called PE TV, which aired on channel 1, and then ESPN, and co-created and directed the web series, Lifeisode. Tardio has directed music videos for numerous acts, most notably for The Red Hot Chili Peppers and Queen Latifah. He is attached to direct the feature film ShortCut Man based on the critically acclaimed novel by P.G. Sturges. Tardio has received more than 100 honors for his spot work, including an Emmy nod for the Partnership for a Drug-Free America PSA, “Joint Man”.  

    Rohrer described Tardio as “an incredibly strong director whose gifts extend well beyond the easy definition of ‘comedy.’ Neil’s casting and the ability to convey a resonant story in an authentic way are hallmarks of his work.”

    Tardio joins a MRS. BOND roster that includes directors Alexander Paul, Him & Her, Cynthia Wade, Devin Supertramp, David Parker, Ross Cooper, Julian Farino, Phil Abraham, Mark Polish, Arie Posin, Scott Zabielski, Jones, and director/cameraman Mitch Amundsen. 

    MRS. BOND also represents digital content company RODEO SHOW and is affiliated with award-winning experiential agency Fake Love.

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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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