Ronald Ng has been appointed chief creative officer of BBDO/Proximity Singapore. He most recently served as executive VP and executive creative director at BBDO New York. Ng is scheduled to relocate to Singapore in August.
Ng brings to his new role almost 20 years of advertising experience, the last eight of which have been with BBDO. At BBDO New York he was involved with a number of high-profile account wins including Johnson & Johnson Baby and Orbitz. He also worked on Monster.com, Hyatt and the Ad Council.
Prior to joining BBDO New York, Ng was chief creative officer at BBDO/Proximity Malaysia. Under his leadership, the agency produced the world’s most awarded print campaign in 2009 (for Jeep) and was ranked #15 in the world in The Gunn Report for creativity.
Danny Searle, current chairman and chief creative officer of BBDO/Proximity Singapore, will remain as chairman of the office, but will take on the additional role of vice chairman of BBDO Asia. Searle will work across regional clients in developing cross border creative work. Searle, who has been in Singapore since 2007, has been responsible for several new business wins in Singapore and beyond, and is directly responsible for the creative output of various BBDO regional clients.
Review: Director Payal Kapadia’s “All We Imagine as Light”
The rhythms of bustling, working-class Mumbai are brought to vivid life in "All We Imagine as Light." The stunning narrative debut of filmmaker Payal Kapadia explores the lives of three women in the city whose existence is mostly transit and work. Even that isn't always enough to get by and pay the rent. One of the women, a widow, recently retired from working her whole life at a city hospital, Parvaty (Chhaya Kadam), is even facing eviction.
The other two, roommates and co-workers in the maternity ward are in different parts of life. Prabha (Kani Kusruti) has a husband from an arranged marriage who she doesn't see and rarely speaks to. His life, we learn, is in Germany. She gets an occasional, ominous physical reminder of his existence in objects, like a fancy rice maker, that arrives one day. But she carries the weight of her arrangement everywhere, an invisible anchor on her being.
Anu (Divya Prabha) is even younger, trying to figure out what her life is going to look like and already in something of an impossible situation: She's fallen in love with Shiz (Hridhu Haroon), who is Muslim. She's Hindu. But in a city of over 20 million, a secret relationship can have some room to grow. Yes, they're hiding this from their families, a burden in and of itself, but in the night markets with the city glimmering and moving around them, they're able to just be.
Prabha is a little judgmental of her more carefree (possibly careless) younger housemate. More companions by circumstance than friends exactly, these women have different ideas about life, but we watch as they grow closer and understand one another more. Prabha even allows herself to go for a walk with a doctor who is clearly interested in her. A small act of agency and rebellion against her... Read More