Noel Cottrell–a noted agency creative stateside and in South Africa–has joined Grey New York as an executive creative director. He is the first major hire the agency’s exec VP/chief creative officer Tor Myhren has made since joining Grey in the fall and then helping it to win the E*Trade account in December. Cottrell will work on E*Trade….Tangerine Films, a New York-based production house under the aegis of founder/executive producer Sal Del Giudice, has added three directors to its roster: Earle Sebastian, Tim Gaylord and Todd Bellanca. They join a directorial lineup which also includes Goodguys, John Lindley and Tim Van Patten…..Absolute Post, the post/visual effects house headquartered in London with a satellite in New York, has launched a motion graphics department. Ric Comline has been hired to head the new venture, which is based in London but will work on projects for both Absolute’s U.K. and U.S. offices. Comline comes over from MPC, London, where he spent the past seven years creating motion graphics for assorted commercials, music videos and feature film sequences…..Digital Kitchen has added John Couch to its Los Angeles team, naming him VP of entertainment and creative media strategy. He most recently served as an independent consultant and prior to that was VP and entertainment creative director for CBS Interactive….Director Alex Gibney, whose documentary Taxi to the Dark Side won the Oscar this year, has shifted his spot representation from Saville Productions, Beverly Hillls, to bicoastal Chelsea Pictures….Director Nelson McCormick of Aero Film, Santa Monica, made his feature filmmaking debut with Prom Night which in its first week broke in at number one in U.S. boxoffice returns at $22.7 million…..
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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