Red Car New York has named Scott Spanjich to the post of managing director. An experienced production and post executive with a diverse background in music videos, commercials and branded content, Spanjich most recently was working with Deluxe in a permalance role where he served in a variety of interim positions at its Beast Editorial division and consulted on motion graphics and VFX business.
Spanjich’s career has been marked by close collaborations with directors, production companies, agencies, music labels and clients. Prior to founding his own consultancy, Scott Spanjich, Inc., he was executive producer of Radical Music, the music-related production arm of @radical.media, a position he held for four years. He came to Radical from Sony Music Entertainment, where he was VP, creative marketing/video production for its Epic label.
Spanjich has worked with an array of artists and brands, ranging from will.i.am and the Black Eyed Peas to Jay Z, Miley Cyrus, Kanye West, Pink, the Dave Matthews Band and many more. Among the advertisers he’s worked with on traditional commercial campaigns, branded content initiatives, broadcast promos and music-related programming are WalMart, MTV, “Saturday Night Live,” Victoria’s Secret, Comcast, and the Obama presidential campaign.
As someone not coming out of an ad agency or post house, Spanjich emerged as unconventional candidate, noted Red Car founder and editor Larry Bridges who explained, “We were attracted to the fact that he brings a fresh and original perspective to the position. We think Scott’s going to change the perception of what a modern postproduction company managing director is going to be.”
Spanjich said about his new role, “Larry is giving me the chance to help shape the future of what Red Car New York is all about. I think as we move forward we’re going to be looking to redefine what a creative editorial and post production company can be in this market, both in terms of the work we do and the relationships we establish.”
At Red Car New York Spanjich will be working with an editorial roster that includes Deidre Bell, Charlie Cusumano, Greg Letson and Keith Olwell, in addition to creative director Chris Bialkowski, who heads up animation, visual effects and design. All Red Car editors are available nationally through the Red Car offices in Dallas, Chicago and Los Angeles. Recent Red Car New York projects includes work for such brands as Olive Garden, Google, Audi and Orbitz, and collaborations with agencies that include Grey Worldwide, Barton F. Graf 9000, Saatchi & Saatchi and Fallon.
Spanjich’s hiring comes on the heels of Red Car Chicago’s recent signing of two new editorial talents, Keith Kristinat and David Rosenblatt. As part of the company’s management team, Spanjich will work with Red Car Chicago managing director Carrie Holecek and executive producer Jon Desir, and Red Car Dallas managing director Carrie Callaway.
Raoul Peck Resurrects A Once-Forgotten Anti-Apartheid Photographer In “Ernest Cole: Lost and Found”
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