Mr. Boomboom, a sister shop to bicoastal/international Believe Media, has added director Laurent Briet to its roster. Briet had been at Little Minx, a division of RSA. His credits include the first short, Rope A Dope, in the Exquisite Corpse-style series of films on littleminx.tv designed to promote that shop’s up-and-coming directors. Also to his credit are spots for such clients as Sprint, Mercedes-Benz and Calvin Klein as well as music videos for Death Cab for Cutie, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Mellowdrone, among others….Passion Pictures, London, has launched Strange Beast, a company that will rep an international roster of emerging filmmaking talent, including Encyclopedia Pictura, Amautalab, Lorenzo Fonda, The Blackheart Gang, Takeo, and James Price. The new venture is committed to developing creative opportunities for these artists across all media platforms including commercials, web based media, music videos, short films and art exhibitions. Strange Beast will be based at Passion’s U.K. premises and is being run by former freelance agency producer Nicola Finn….New York-based design/animation/FX studio Psyop is going public, raising $29.4 million through a deal whereby it will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Fortissimo Acquisition Corp. Following the closing of the transaction, Fortissimo will be renamed Psyop and the company will attempt to have its shares listed on NASDAQ. Psyop’s current creative heads and management team will remain in place, including executive producer Justin Booth-Clibborn who will become CEO of the newly public company….Editor Claudia Reda-Walker has joined Bond, the New York-based creative editorial/visual effects design boutique opened in ’06 by editor Jeff Beckerman. Reda-Walker was most recently at rhinoedit, New York…..
Director Cassandra Brooksbank Joins Monument Content For Spots and Branded Content
Monument Content has signed director Cassandra “Cassie” Brooksbank for U.S. representation spanning commercials and branded content. She brings to her directing and storytelling the experience and skills of a writer, conceptual artist, editor and visual effects artist.
Her body of work as a director includes Pepsi’s “Selfie” featuring Lionel Messi amid a flurry of fans, Barclays madcap women’s Soccer League spot where she collaborated closely with the agency to develop the creative, ultimately winning the Grand Jury Prize at the Sports Industry Awards, and a grass-roots campaign for Fellow Coffee. The latter just didn’t brew buzz; it helped raise $1.2 million on Kickstarter.
Prior to joining Monument Content, Brooksbank had been repped in the U.S. for commercials by production house Hey Wonderful.
On the long-form front, she is repped by CAA for film and television. And on the horizon is her debut feature, My Masterpiece, produced by Sylvester Stallone’s Balboa Productions and backed by Amazon.
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