Global social media agency We Are Social has brought experienced digital creative director Stephanie Levy on board to assume the newly created role of director of content.
Levy will lead We Are Social’s US creative department, in charge of delivering breakthrough creative thinking and content for the agency’s growing client base. Along with overseeing a team of designers and writers, she will also be instrumental in identifying additional talent as We Are Social expands its creative teams in light of recent new business wins.
Levy has considerable experience in social, having served at leading beauty brand Clinique as its director of creative for social media/online editorial content and before that helping to build out the social media team at Macy’s. Her other experience includes positions at Jack Morton Worldwide, Geometry Global, HarperCollins Publishing and Situation Interactive.
The hiring of Levy is a strong complement to the agency’s well-known expertise in social media strategy and research & insight, bolstering We Are Social’s ability to deliver highly effective social thinking to clients.
“In addition to her breadth of experience and track record, Stephanie perfectly mirrors our roll-your-sleeves-up and collaborative culture,” said Rob FitzGerald, president, We Are Social. “Along with recent investments in our strategy and research & insight teams, her appointment reflects We Are Social’s commitment to continually evolve our delivery of content and creative innovation, which we believe is key to driving successful social media programs for brands.”
Review: Writer-Director Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substance”
In its first two hours, "The Substance" is a well-made, entertaining movie. Writer-director Coralie Fargeat treats audiences to a heavy dose of biting social commentary on ageism and sexism in Hollywood, with a spoonful of sugar- and sparkle-doused body horror.
But the film's deliciously unhinged, blood-soaked and inevitably polarizing third act is what makes it unforgettable.
What begins as a dread-inducing but still relatively palatable sci-fi flick spirals deeper into absurdism and violence, eventually erupting — quite literally — into a full-blown monster movie. Let the viewer decide who the monster is.
Fargeat — who won best screenplay at this year's Cannes Film Festival — has been vocal about her reverence for "The Fly" director David Cronenberg, and fans of the godfather of body horror will see his unmistakable influence. But "The Substance" is also wholly unique and benefits from Fargeat's perspective, which, according to the French filmmaker, has involved extensive grappling with her own relationship to her body and society's scrutiny.
"The Substance" tells the story of Elisabeth Sparkle, a famed aerobics instructor with a televised show, played by a powerfully vulnerable Demi Moore. Sparkle is fired on her 50th birthday by a ruthless executive — a perfectly cast Dennis Quaid, who nails sleazy and gross.
Feeling rejected by a town that once loved her and despairing over her bygone star power, Sparkle learns from a handsome young nurse about a black-market drug that promises to create a "younger, more beautiful, more perfect" version of its user. Though she initially tosses the phone number in the trash, she soon fishes it out in a desperate panic and places an order.
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