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    Racket Club adds Adrian Womack

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    NEW YORK --

    Boutique music studio Racket Club has added the producing talents of Adrian Womack to its New York-based team. Womack is a New Orleans native who found his passion for media arts early on, which soon led him to the world of advertising. In his first career role, he served as a production coordinator, working with producers and creatives at TBWAChiatDay and 72andSunny in L.A. He collaborated with brands such as Nissan, Airbnb, Google, and the 2028 LA Olympics bid. Growing weary of simply moonlighting in music outside of his regular working hours, he made his way to Mophonics in 2018, working on both their West and East Coast teams. He has since worked on music placement for many of the brands from his agency days, and more, while expanding his connections with new musical talent and the emerging generation within the creative industry. 

    Home to talented musicians and music supervisors, Racket Club utilizes a global network of composers and performing artists to create custom-tailored musical identities for every project. 

    Racket Club’s sister company is Uppercut, a creative postproduction boutique in New York and Atlanta. Racket Club donates a percentage of all profits to the NAACP Legal Fund, Harlem Village Academies, and Black Lives Matter.

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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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