Damian Stevens has returned to the agency side of the business, joining Saatchi & Saatchi Los Angeles in Torrance as its director of broadcast production. The move reunites him with Saatchi LA executive creative director Harvey Marco; the two had worked together at Fallon where Stevens was a West Coast-based producer for the agency while Marco served as a creative director in Minneapolis.
Saatchi LA chief creative officer Steve Rabosky, Marco and Stevens will spearhead the agency initiative in long form, branded content and Internet-based executions, at times integrating these forms into campaigns that include traditional TV spotmaking. Stevens noted that he and his colleagues are exploring TV show, documentary and reality series ideas. He believes this is the opportune time to be at an ad shop like Saatchi.
Stevens most recently served as an executive producer at JGF, Hollywood, which is now bicoastal Sandwick Films. Prior to that he served in an exec producer capacity for bicoastal Moxie Pictures.
Moxie was Steven’s first career production house roost. He came there after having established himself as an agency producer at Fallon’s Southern California office. Earlier, he was a producer at Hal Riney & Partners (now Publicis & Hal Riney), San Francisco.
During his Fallon tenure, Stevens produced PBS’ “Photo Booth,” which won the primetime commercial Emmy Award in 2001. The spot from Fallon, Minneapolis, was directed by Errol Morris who at the time was with bicoastal/international @radical.media. (Morris recently joined Moxie Pictures.)
At JGF, Stevens’ executive producer endeavors saw him collaborate on jobs with such agencies as Crispin Porter+Bogusky, Miami, Cliff Freeman and Partners, New York, The Martin Agency, Richmond, Va., and WongDoody, Seattle.