Olivier Lefebvre has been promoted from executive creative director to president and partner at FF Paris, the creative boutique agency founded by Fred & Farid.
This brings the Paris office in line with FF’s bureaus in Shanghai, Los Angeles, and New York, putting an executive from the creative division in charge of overall operations. FF began this strategic leadership shift in 2012 to be better-placed to respond to the rapid changes currently revolutionizing the marketing industry. FF Paris aims to be even more connected with the group’s three other agencies by intensifying collaboration between international teams and increasing direct contacts between creative people and the clients.
Lefebvre started as a copywriter at DDB Paris and became creative director at CLM-BBDO in less than 10 years. In 2014, he joined FF Paris as executive creative director. Throughout his career, he worked for more than 30 French and international brands such as Mercedes France, Tag Heuer Worldwide, Pepsi-Co International, Mars Group (Mars, Snickers, M&M’s,Whiskas, Suzy Wan), Greenpeace, Audi, Lipton International, Aviva, Eurostar, The Economist (worldwide campaign), EDF Digital, La Redoute, Bouygues Telecom,l’Equipe, Voyagessncf.com, and Inpes Tabaco.
Lefebvre is part of the exclusive Club of French Creative Directors, and is internationally multi-awarded: more than 35 Lions (including 8 golds), 9 D&AD (including 3 Yellow Pencils, 8 Graphite Pencils), 30 One Show awards (including 1 Best of Show), 35 Clio awards, and 50 Eurobest awards.
Full Lineup Set For AFI Fest; Official Selections Span 44 Countries, Include 9 Best International Feature Oscar Submissions
The American Film Institute (AFI) has unveiled the full lineup for this year’s AFI Fest, taking place in Los Angeles from October 23-27. Rounding out the slate of already announced titles are such highlights as September 5 directed by Tim Fehlbaum, All We Imagine As Light directed by Payal Kapadia, The Luckiest Man in America directed by Samir Oliveros (AFI Class of 2019), Zurawski v. Texas from executive producers Hillary Clinton, Chelsea Clinton and Jennifer Lawrence and directors Maisie Crow and Abbie Perrault, and Oh, Canada directed by Paul Schrader (AFI Class of 1969). A total of 158 films are set to screen at the 38th edition of AFI Fest.
Of the official selections, 48% are directed by women and non-binary filmmakers and 26% are directed by BIPOC filmmakers.
Additional festival highlights include documentaries Architecton directed by Victor Kossakovsky; Cheech & Chong’s Last Movie directed by David Bushell; Devo directed by Chris Smith about the legendary new wave provocateurs; Gaucho Gaucho directed by Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw; Group Therapy directed by Neil Berkeley with Emmy® winner Neil Patrick Harris and Tig Notaro; No Other Land directed by a Palestinian-Israeli team comprised of Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor and Hamdan Ballal; Pavements directed by Alex Ross Perry; and Separated directed by Errol Morris. Notable narrative titles include Black Dog (Gou Zen) directed by Guan Hu; Bonjour Tristesse directed by Durga Chew-Bose with Academy Award® nominee Chloë Sevigny; Caught By The Tides directed by Jia Zhangke; Hard Truths directed by Mike Leigh with... Read More