Creative agency mono has tapped Steve Lynch to take on the new senior role of director of connections strategy at its Minneapolis office. Bringing almost two decades of experience, he will be responsible for expanding the agency’s channel-planning practice.
Prior to joining mono, Lynch spent 10 years at Olson, leading the company’s connections strategy discipline and increasing the department’s billings tenfold. While at Olson, Steve worked with clients such as General Mills’ yogurt division, McDonald’s, Belize Tourism and Bissell. Before Olson, Steve spent six years at Mithun working with such clients as General Mills’ Nature Valley Granola Bars and Pop Secret Popcorn.
In 2015, mono’s revenue grew 50% with key wins among leading national brands including Sperry, Propel, The North Face, Mozilla Firefox, Advance Auto Parts and SunChips. Most recently mono was named AOR for handbag and accessories brand Vera Bradley. The agency recently expanded to the West Coast with the launch of an office in San Francisco.
Juliette Welfling Takes On A Musical, A Crime Thriller, Comedy and Drama In “Emelia Pérez”
Editor Juliette Welfling has a track record of close-knit, heartfelt collaboration with writer-director Jacques Audiard, a four-time BAFTA Award nominee for Best Film not in the English Language--starting with The Beat That My Heart Skipped in 2006, then A Prophet in 2010, Rust and Bone in 2013, and Dheepan in 2017. He won for The Beat That My Heart Skipped and A Prophet.
Welfling cut three of those features: A Prophet, Rust and Bone, and Dheepan. And that shared filmography has since grown to most recently include Emelia Pérez, the Oscar buzz-worthy film from Netflix. Welfling herself is not stranger to Academy Award banter. In fact, she earned a Best Achievement in Film Editing Oscar nomination in 2008 for director Julian Schnabel’s The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.
Emelia Pérez is a hybrid musical/drama/thriller which introduces us to a talented but undervalued lawyer named Rita (portrayed by Zoe Saldana) who receives a lucrative offer out of the blue from a feared drug cartel boss who’s looking to retire from his sordid business and disappear forever by becoming the woman he’s always dreamt of being (Karla Sofía Gascón in a dual role as Manitas Del Monte/Emilia Pérez). Rita helps pull this off, orchestrating the faked death of Del Monte who leaves behind a widow (Jessi, played by Selena Gomez) and kids. While living comfortably and contently in her/their new identity, Pérez misses the children. Pérez once again enlists Rita--this time to return to family life, reuniting with the kids by pretending to be their aunt, the sister of Del Monte. Now as an aunt, Pérez winds up adopting a more altruistic bent professionally,... Read More