Director Rob Legato has signed with bicoastal/international Moxie Pictures for exclusive global spot representation. Legato has served as second unit director/cinematographer on such films as Martin Scorsese’s The Departed and The Aviator, and Robert DeNiro’s The Good Shepherd. Additionally, Legato is an Oscar-winning visual effects supervisor for such movies as Titanic and Apollo 13….Wieden+Kennedy (W+K) has hired Tyler Whisnand as co-creative director for the Nike team based in Portland, Ore. He succeeds Steve Luker who was promoted in January to co-creative director for W+K, Portland. Whisnand will partner with Mike McCommon who previously served as W+K creative director for the Electronic Arts account team. Whisnand comes to W+K from KesselsKramer, Amsterdam, where he was a creative director/partner….Director/DP Ben Dolphin has joined the roster of cineconcepto, Miami and Mexico City, and is now exclusively represented in the U.S. Hispanic market by Reel Reps….Editor Geraldine Garcia-Esquivel has joined wild(child) editorial, New York. After attaining a Master’s degree in communications in Chile, she moved stateside, interning at The Well, New York, and then working at 89 Editorial, New York…..Editor Tommy Harden, most recently at Chrome, Santa Monica, has come aboard Portland, Ore.-headquartered Joint, a digital media and post company housed within W+K. Joint operates offices in Portland, New York and Amsterdam….Copywriter Stephanie Crippin, formerly of 180 and W+K, both in Amsterdam, has joined McCann Erickson, New York….
Ron Cicero and Bo Clancey Launch Production House 34North
Executive producers Ron Cicero and Bo Clancey have teamed to launch 34North. The shop opens with a roster which includes accomplished directors Jan Wentz, Ben Nakamura Whitehouse, David Edwards and Mario Feil, as well as such up-and-coming filmmakers as Glenn Stewart and Chris Fowles. Nakamura Whitehouse, Edwards, Feil and Fowles come over from CoMPANY Films, the production company for which Cicero served as an EP for the past nearly five years. Director Wentz had most recently been with production house Skunk while Stewart now gains his first U.S. representation. EP Clancey was freelance producing prior to the formation of 34North. He and Cicero have known each other for some 25 years, recently reconnecting on a job directed by Fowles. Cicero said that he and Clancey “want to keep a highly focused roster where talent management can be one on one--where we all share in the directors’ success together.” Clancey also brings an agency pedigree to the new venture. “I started at Campbell Ewald in accounts, no less,” said Clancey. “I saw firsthand how much work agencies put in before we even see a script. You have to respect that investment. These agency experiences really shaped my approach to production--it’s about empathy, listening between the lines, and ultimately making the process seamless.” 34North represents a meeting point--both literally and creatively. Named after the latitude of Malibu, Calif., where the idea for the company was born, it also embraces the power of storytelling. “34North118West was the first GPS-enabled narrative,” Cicero explained. “That blend of art and technology, to captivate an audience, mirrors what we do here--create compelling work, with talented people, harnessing state-of-the-art... Read More