Bay Area-based ad agency producer Stacy McClain has joined digital studio Radium, with facilities in San Francisco, Santa Monica and Dallas, as executive producer. She will head up the San Francisco shop. McClain started her career at Young & Rubicam, San Francisco, before moving over to Goody, Silverstein & Partners, San Francisco, as a producer. She then became head of production at Black Rocket (now Heat), San Francisco, and had most recently been freelancing for several Bay Area agencies. Also coming aboard Radium is designer Angela Ko, who will work out of the Santa Monica studio. Ko had been working as a freelance designer/animator at such studios as Stardust, Logan, Imaginary Forces and Motion Theory….Bluerock has promoted Dana Gerolimatos to full-fledged editor. Formerly an assistant editor at the New York shop, she regularly collaborated with Bluerock cutters Laura Milstein and David Mester….Philadelphia ad agency Red Tettemer has hired Ben Mallory as its first ever interactive creative director and Ryan Blain as interactive designer. Mallory has been tasked with defining the agency’s interactive capabilities, from core functionality to pathways and overall user experience. He will work for clients such as Advanta, Comcast, Hatfield Quality Meats and kajeet, as well as on new business projects. Mallory came to Red Tettemer from Digitas Health where he was creative director responsible for Crestor. Prior to Digitas, Mallory was creative director at SFGT, Philadelphia. His career also includes stints at AOL, Casio, Commerce One, WeMedia, Zentropy Partners and TheKnot.com. Meanwhile Blain was formerly interactive designer at 160over90, a Philly marketing communications agency…..
Review: Director Alex Parkinson’s “Last Breath” Starring Woody Harrelson and Simu Liu
A routine deep sea diving mission in the North Sea goes terribly wrong when a young diver is stranded some 300 feet below the surface in the new film "Last Breath." His umbilical cable has severed. The support vessel above is aimlessly drifting away from the site through violent, stormy waters. And the diver has only ten minutes of oxygen in his backup tank.
As if that wasn't enough, it's also a true story.
If merely reading this is giving you heart palpitations already, you can only imagine the white-knuckle experience of watching this all play out on the big screen. It's 40ish minutes of pure suspense and anxiety as the story shuffles between the man at the bottom of the ocean, Chris Lemons (Finn Cole), his fellow saturation divers (Woody Harrelson as Duncan and Simu Liu as Dave) in the diving bell below the waters who are unable to help and the crew in the support vessel above (including Cliff Cutris and Mark Bonnar) scrambling to get their systems back online and operational as the clock rapidly runs out. Ten minutes has never felt so short โ and then it just gets worse as the clock starts counting up, showing Chris's time without oxygen.
At one point, Liu's character Dave, a no-nonsense, all-business diver says matter-of-factly at that it's a body recovery, not a rescue. Deep sea saturation diving is a dangerous business, described at the start of the film as the most dangerous job on earth. Chris tells his fiancรฉ, in a short introduction, that it's no more dangerous than going to space. She replies that it's funny that he thinks that is comforting.
The real incident happened in September 2012 โ Dave, Duncan and Chris were just one team of divers sent to the ocean floor off the coast of Aberdeen, Scotland, to repair oil... Read More