Independent sales rep Helen O’Brien has reunited with Bonfire partners Peter Corbett and Jason Mayo as she’s been signed to represent the creative studio in the Midwest markets. For seven years, O’Brien was the Midwest rep for Corbett’s previous studio, Click3X. More recently, she was working with Mayo in his prior position at Chimney before he joined Bonfire last fall as partner and managing director. Bonfire specializes in boutique visual effects, color, design and animation services, provided via its proprietary Bonfire Network remote talent network and by its in-house team of artists, creative directors and producers. The company was founded in 2016 by Flame artist Brendan O’Neil. O’Brien will work closely with Mayo, Corbett and Bonfire’s New York-based director of sales, Clare O’Brien, who’s no relation. Bonfire is the latest addition to Helen O’Brien’s representation roster which includes Storefront Music, Residency Content, Mutt Films, Unicorns&Unicorns, StreetFactory Media and Cultivate Media….
Cinematographers Ronald Richard, CSC and Damian Horan have joined Dattner Dispoto and Associates (DDA) for representation…
Globecast, a Paris-headquartered global solutions provider helping customers with content management and delivery, has moved Denis Genevois and Olivier Zankel into new marketing roles. Genevois, who joined Globecast in 2001, is now VP marketing group and Zankel, who joined Globecast in 2011, is now VP communications group. They will both report to Philippe Bernard, CEO, Globecast, with the two also now sitting on the executive committee. They replace Juliet Walker who has moved to take up a role at parent company Orange Business Services. As VP marketing group, Genevois is now overseeing the defining of service strategies and the way that services work with, or alongside, one another as well reporting sales performance. He is also in charge of defining sales strategies by market and region. Since 2018, Genevois has been in charge of marketing and business development for broadcasters handling international pre-sales activity at Globecast. Zankel has been in charge of global communications and operational marketing since 2018. He is now responsible for defining both internal and external communication strategies, setting strategic directives in terms of visibility and messaging…..