Director Marcus Wagner has signed with Rockstar Media Group, Los Angeles, for exclusive representation. He is best known for high profile promo work on behalf of such clients as Nickelodeon Movies, Dreamworks Studios, Paramount Pictures, Disney Channel and Major League Baseball. Rockstar is headed by producers Marc Blitstein and Michael Schlenker….Pioneering motion picture technologist Gary Demos has joined Lowry Digital, a Burbank, Calif.-based company specializing in digital restoration and enhancement of motion pictures, as senior algorithm scientist, reporting to chief technology officer John Lowry. Demos received the 2006 Gordon E. Sawyer Award for lifetime technical achievement from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. He was a leader in computer-generated images in the early 1970s, and began working on the processing and compression of high-resolution images by the late 1980s….Pulse Music, New York, has extended its reach to South Africa with an operation under the aegis of executive producer Marc Algranti….
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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