John T. O’Keefe, founder and managing director of Broadcast Pro, has announced that search, recruitment and placement services have been added to the firm’s growing list of capabilities. Broadcast Pro, now in its fifth year, provides sales, marketing, business development, product design & engineering and executive management consulting to manufacturers and service providers in the international broadcast space.
O’Keefe says the addition of search, recruitment and placement services underscores the company’s founding principles. “Broadcast Pro was established to help companies achieve their goals through sales and marketing programs individually designed to leverage strengths and minimize weaknesses. We believe a company’s reputation and success rests on its people, and we’re dedicated to matching companies with candidates that fit in comfortably with the company’s culture and contribute to its productivity. Finding the right candidate for each position is a win-win situation. It will facilitate a long-term business relationship that leads to professional growth for the candidate, and profitability for the company.”
O’Keefe launched Broadcast Pro with over 25 years of experience establishing and supporting worldwide distribution networks, key national accounts and OEM accounts. His track record includes serving as president/CEO of ProSource, an international marketing and sales organization specializing in the import/distribution of broadcast and motion picture equipment, and before that as VP of sales and marketing for Anton Bauer. O’Keefe is a member of NAB, SMPTE and the Digital Cinema Society.
Broadcast Pro’s clientele consists of a wide variety of broadcast suppliers, system integrators, manufacturers, distributors and resellers, including: ARRI, AAdynTech, BHV Broadcast, Chimera, PAG, Shotoku and Vocas Systems.
Review: Writer-Director Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substance”
In its first two hours, "The Substance" is a well-made, entertaining movie. Writer-director Coralie Fargeat treats audiences to a heavy dose of biting social commentary on ageism and sexism in Hollywood, with a spoonful of sugar- and sparkle-doused body horror.
But the film's deliciously unhinged, blood-soaked and inevitably polarizing third act is what makes it unforgettable.
What begins as a dread-inducing but still relatively palatable sci-fi flick spirals deeper into absurdism and violence, eventually erupting — quite literally — into a full-blown monster movie. Let the viewer decide who the monster is.
Fargeat — who won best screenplay at this year's Cannes Film Festival — has been vocal about her reverence for "The Fly" director David Cronenberg, and fans of the godfather of body horror will see his unmistakable influence. But "The Substance" is also wholly unique and benefits from Fargeat's perspective, which, according to the French filmmaker, has involved extensive grappling with her own relationship to her body and society's scrutiny.
"The Substance" tells the story of Elisabeth Sparkle, a famed aerobics instructor with a televised show, played by a powerfully vulnerable Demi Moore. Sparkle is fired on her 50th birthday by a ruthless executive — a perfectly cast Dennis Quaid, who nails sleazy and gross.
Feeling rejected by a town that once loved her and despairing over her bygone star power, Sparkle learns from a handsome young nurse about a black-market drug that promises to create a "younger, more beautiful, more perfect" version of its user. Though she initially tosses the phone number in the trash, she soon fishes it out in a desperate panic and places an order.
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