Original Film, the bicoastal house headed by executive producers Bruce Mellon, Jeff Devlin and Joe Piccirillo, has added four directors to its roster: Australian helmers Brendan Williams and Tim Gibbs; E.J. Foerster, known for his ad work as well as second unit director duties on feature films; and Ben Orisich, who was part of SHOOT’s 2007 New Directors Showcase…..Melissa Thornley has joined production house The Ebeling Group, bicoastal and London, as executive producer. She comes over from editorial company The Whitehouse where she has served as managing director for its four offices–New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and London–for the past three years. At The Ebeling Group, she will continue to work from her base in Chicago, focusing on the Midwest and East Coast markets. Meanwhile Dex Deboree has been named The Ebeling Group’s senior executive producer, promoted from exec producer in the company’s New York office, a role he held for the last two years…..Steve Capp has been promoted from group creative director to chief creative officer of Unit 7, New York. He served as group creative director for Unit 7 (an Omnicom agency) on “Team AT&T,” which merged direct and general disciplines in an integrated effort. He has also worked on such accounts at Unit 7 as MasterCard, ESPN and Pfizer. Prior to joining the agency in ’05, he was an associate creative directors at the Los Angeles offices of Foote, Cone & Belding and Grey….Executive producer Jeanne Mattiussi has teamed with exec producer and her former colleague at Millennium Pictures, exec producer Anthony Mosa, to launch Lemonaide Media in Burbank, Calif. Coming aboard the shop are creative partners/directors Ed Miller, Charlie Tercek and Mark Taylor…
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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