VFX/design boutique Smoke & Mirrors has hired repping team Robin Stevens and Sarah Jenks to handle the Midwest territory….DP Jakob Ihre has recently completed principal photography on End of the Tour (Jesse Eisenberg, Jason Segel) directed by James Ponsoldt and based on Rolling Stone writer David Lipsky’s book, "Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip With David Foster Wallace." Ihre is now available for commercials, television and feature films through The Skouras Agency, Santa Monica….Production designer John Goldsmith has recently completed principal photography on A Most Violent Year directed by J.C. Chandor (All is Lost), starring Jessica Chastain and Oscar Isaac. Goldsmith is available for commercials, television and feature films through The Skouras Agency….
VCCP Hires Trio Of Creative Duos
Global communications network VCCP has brought three creative duos on board: Charli Camber (née Plant) and Laura Saraiva; Lance Boreham and Tom Dyson; and Jack Snell and Joe Lovett.
Associate creative directors Camber and Saraiva are a British-Portuguese duo known for creating entertaining, culturally influential, and emotionally resonant work. They are best known for “Waiting to Live,” a National Health Service (NHS) child organ donation campaign that placed 233 bespoke dolls representing children on the transplant waiting list in medical waiting rooms across the U.K. The campaign won over 50 awards, including three Cannes Lions, the Grand Prix at the Clios, ADC*E and Eurobest, as well as multiple D&AD Pencils.
Camber and Saraiva join VCCP after three years at VML, where they contributed to four agency pitch wins and worked across global brands including Batiste, Beko, and Duracell. They also helped launch the award-winning mentoring app Magpie and created “Check Me Out,” a provocative cervical cancer awareness campaign that gained traction on social media.
Boreham and Dyson join VCCP as a senior creative team. The duo first met on the renowned Watford ad course in 2014 and later reunited at isobel, where they delivered standout campaigns for Reed, Travelodge and Thortful. Their work has been recognized across the industry for its creativity and effectiveness.
Snell and Lovett also join VCCP as a senior creative team, marking a return to the agency where they spent the first seven years of their careers. During their initial tenure at VCCP, they played a pivotal role in launching major campaigns for Domino’s (“The Official Food of Everything”) and Virgin Media O2 (“Supercharge Your World”), as well as crafting... Read More