Goldberg Moser O’Neill has appointed Brian O’Neill president/CCO. O’Neill had been executive VP/creative director at the San Francisco-based agency.
Freebairn & Co. has named Christian Griffith new media producer. Prior to joining the Atlanta-based agency, Griffith was an online consultant at Scripps-Howard newspapers, DriDek Corporation and Capital Internet Group.
Chicago-based Jack Levy Associates has added Michael Rivera as senior VP/executive creative director. Rivera comes over to the agency from J. Walter Thompson, Chicago, where he was a creative director.
Don Pogany has been upped from creative director to group creative director at DDB Needham Chicago. He has held the title of VP since ’94. The agency has also promoted Diane Chacharon to broadcast producer. She was formerly an associate producer.
Mintz & Hoke, Avon, Conn., has added senior copywriter David Banta and senior art director David Swartz. Both held the same titles at their previous agencies-Banta with Foote, Cone & Belding, San Francisco, and Swartz at Miami-based Crispin Porter+Bogusky Advertising. The duo will work as a team at Mintz & Hoke.
McCann-Erickson, New York, has promoted senior VPs Gib Marquardt, Paul Behnen, B.J. Kaplan, Doug Welch and Kai Sawatzki, to group creative directors.
Boston-based Arnold Communications has added senior copywriters John Simpson and Grady Winch. Simpson and Winch were copywriters at Ingalls, Boston, and Gearon Hoffman, Boston, respectively. Additionally, Wade Devers has joined the agency as senior art director. Devers was previously at Ingalls, where he held the position of art director. The agency has also promoted Jennifer Hardie to assistant producer. Hardie previously held the title of assistant business affairs manager.
Dick Davis and Doug Goransson have joined Gearon Hoffman in the positions of senior VPs/creative directors. The two were principals of now defunct agency Davis & Goransson. Also former VP/creative director Jon Pietz has been promoted to senior VP/ creative director to round out the new creative structure at the Boston-headquartered agency.
Jonathan Rodgers has rejoined BBDO New York as senior VP/creative director. Rodgers was most recently a VP at Leo Burnett Co., Chicago.
Creative Domain has hired Peter Adee and Tom Kennedy as co-presidents of the Los Angeles-based agency. Adee was a senior marketing executive with DreamWorks SKG, North Hollywood, and Kennedy held the title of senior VP, creative advertising at MGM/UA, Santa Monica.
Oscar-Nominated Director Sean Wang Joins Park Pictures For Spots, Branded Content
Park Pictures has added director Sean Wang to its roster of talent for representation spanning commercials and branded content. His feature-length debut, Dìdi, premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, where it was acquired by Focus Features and released later that summer to critical acclaim.
Wang is a Taiwanese-American filmmaker hailing from Fremont, Calif., and currently based in Los Angeles. Prior to joining Park Pictures, he was repped by Even/Odd Studios. Often pulling from his lived experiences, Wang can turn hyper-specific story points into universally relatable, memorable moments.
Dìdi won the U.S. Dramatic Audience Award and the Special Jury Prize for Best Ensemble Cast at the Sundance Film Festival. His documentary short Nai Nai & Wài Pó premiered at SXSW 2023, where it won the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award, later earning an Oscar nomination. The film following Wang’s two grandmothers is currently streaming on Disney+ and Hulu. Other films from Wang include the lauded documentary shorts 3,000 Miles, H.A.G.S., and Still Here. As a Google Creative Lab 5 Alumnus, Wang has directed several commercial campaigns for Google that highlighted live captions and teased large news from the tech conglomerate, including an ad that aired during the 2017 Emmy Awards.
Wang said of Park Pictures, “I can’t think of a better artistic home for me as a director. The work that comes out of Park Pictures is incredible, and I admire the work they do in advertising and the documentary and narrative space. Everyone I’ve met there is just as obsessed with making great films as I am, and I look forward to growing my career with them as I move into the commercial space.”
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