Todd Riddle has been promoted from group creative director to creative director at Fallon Minneapolis. He succeeds Kerry Feuerman who resigned from the agency last week after just 13 months in the position. Riddle has been group creative director on Travelers Insurance, Holiday Inn and The Bahamas Ministry of Tourism. Prior to Fallon, Riddle worked in Boston at Arnold Worldwide and earlier at Hill Holliday and Houston Effler…..U.K. house Draw Pictures has signed director Michael Williams, formerly of The Mob, London. Highlighting his spot credits is the 2006 World Cup campaign for Pringles featuring athletes Steven Gerrard, Roberto Carlos and Freddie Ljungberg, as well as work for Sony PlayStation. Williams has also been active in music videos (for such artists as Roni Size and Shapeshifters) and documentaries (What Rio Did…”). Additionally Draw has hired commercials producer Greg Magloire….Rachel Kaminek has been named executive producer/director of operations at New York-based motion graphics, 3D animation and visual effects shop Manic. Kaminek previously served as senior producer at Superfad and Brand New School, and executive producer at Sway….
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