Finger Music & Sound Design has secured Meredyth Mann as its East Coast representative. Mann is the founder and owner of Bespoke360, a new boutique talent representation firm. She started in the advertising business in Ogilvy & Mather's production department and moved to sales in '05. Prior to Bespoke360, she was head of sales for Compulsive Pictures during a three-and-a-half-year stretch….Cynthia Mudd has joined Holiday Films, Toronto, as director of marketing. Mudd's past experience in commercial film production included sales and marketing positions at Toronto-based production companies Radke Films and Brown Entertainment. At her new roost she will working with Holiday exec producers Derek Sewell and Josefina Nadurata….DP Doug Chamberlain, who's repped by Innovative Artists, recently wrapped the feature project Maladies starring James Franco and Catherine Keener. And production designer Peter Benson, also of Innovative Artists, recently finished a Toyota project directed by Geordie Stephens from Tool of North America and is now available for upcoming film and commercial work….
Director Cassandra Brooksbank Joins Monument Content For Spots and Branded Content
Monument Content has signed director Cassandra “Cassie” Brooksbank for U.S. representation spanning commercials and branded content. She brings to her directing and storytelling the experience and skills of a writer, conceptual artist, editor and visual effects artist.
Her body of work as a director includes Pepsi’s “Selfie” featuring Lionel Messi amid a flurry of fans, Barclays madcap women’s Soccer League spot where she collaborated closely with the agency to develop the creative, ultimately winning the Grand Jury Prize at the Sports Industry Awards, and a grass-roots campaign for Fellow Coffee. The latter just didn’t brew buzz; it helped raise $1.2 million on Kickstarter.
Prior to joining Monument Content, Brooksbank had been repped in the U.S. for commercials by production house Hey Wonderful.
On the long-form front, she is repped by CAA for film and television. And on the horizon is her debut feature, My Masterpiece, produced by Sylvester Stallone’s Balboa Productions and backed by Amazon.
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