Bay Area-based ad agency producer Stacy McClain has joined digital studio...
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…..
First-Time Feature Directors Make Major Splash At AFI Fest, Generate Oscar Buzz
Two first-time feature directors who are generating Oscar buzz this awards season were front and center this past weekend at AFI Fest in Hollywood. Rachel Morrison, who made history as the first woman nominated for a Best Cinematography Oscar---on the strength of Mudbound in 2018--brought her feature directorial debut, The Fire Inside (Amazon MGM Studios), to the festival on Sunday (10/27), and shared insights into the film during a conversation session immediately following the screening. This came a day after William Goldenberg, an Oscar-winning editor for Argo in 2013, had his initial foray into feature directing, Unstoppable (Amazon MGM Studios), showcased at the AFI proceedings. He too spoke after the screening during a panel discussion. The Fire Inside--which made its world premiere at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival--tells the story of Claressa “T-Rex” Shields (portrayed by Ryan Destiny), a Black boxer from Flint, Mich., who trained to become the first woman in U.S. history to win an Olympic Gold Medal in the sport. She achieved this feat--with the help of coach Jason Crutchfield (Brian Tyree Henry)--only to find that her victory at the Summer Games came with relatively little fanfare and no endorsement deals. So much for the hope that the historic accomplishment would be a ticket out of socioeconomic purgatory for Shields and her family. It seemed like yet another setback in a cycle of adversity throughout Shields’ life but she persevered, going on to win her second Gold Medal at the next Olympics and becoming a champion for gender equality and equitable pay for women in sports. Shields has served as a source of inspiration for woman athletes worldwide--as well as to the community of... Read More