Director Nanette Burstein, who won the 2008 Sundance Documentary Directing Award for her film American Teen, has joined bicoastal/international Hungry Man for global spot representation. Slated to open in theaters in July, American Teen tracks the lives of four Indiana high school students over the course of a school year….Santa Monica, Calif.-based TWC has signed director Matt Murphy for stateside representation. Murphy is a New Zealand director also repped by Sydney, Australia-based GoodOil Films. He’s the second GoodOil director to be handled by TWC in the U.S. (following Hamish Rothwell, who signed with TWC two years ago)….Don McKinney, a former partner in Cole & Weber United, Seattle, has joined Grey New York as executive creative director/director of digital development, a new position at the agency. He will work closely with Grey New York exec VP/chief creative officer Tor Myhren to build a creative environment that blends traditional and digital branding…..Director Todd Korgan has come aboard @Large Films, the Portland, Ore.-based shop headed by owner/executive producer Juliana Lukasik….Pennington Ingley has joined Dallas-based animation studio Janimation as its head of gaming. He was most recently at Texas Instruments where he helped craft strategies for entry into the game industry. Janimation produces computer animation, motion design and visual effects for film, broadcast spots and game cinematics….Rick Boyko–director and professor of VCU Brandcenter, and former CCO of Ogilvy & Mather North America–has been named dean of the Roger Hatchuel Academy which teaches a select group of students during a weeklong course at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Fest….
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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