Steven Sills has joined kaboom productions as head of production. He will be based in the company’s Los Angeles office and work closely with owner/exec producer Lauren Schwartz who operates out of kaboom’s San Francisco headquarters. Sills’ experience includes serving as a staff bidder for the former Bruce Dowad Associates, working on jobs for directors Dowad, Robert Logevall, Vincent Ward and Alain Gourrier. Sills then jumped into freelance production managing on commercial projects with such directors as David Cornell, Agust Baldursson, Ulf Johansson, Speck/Gordon, and music video helmer Antti J. Sills then moved to producing and worked on jobs directed by Douglas Avery and Charlie White, among others. In 2006, Sills took a hiatus from commercials to produce an independent film, Sinner, which went on to win several festival awards and will be this fall. He has worked in over 15 countries in productions for film, television and advertising. He brings 16 years of production experience to the kaboom team….Boutique U.K. animation studio Not To Scale, under the aegis of founder/executive producer Dan O’Rourke, has signed London-based directing duo Vincent (John Hill and Rheea Aranha) for worldwide commercials and music video representation. Vincent was formed last year and got off to a fast star with projects including the BBC2 “Christmas” campaign and BBC2’s iconic “Thursdays are Funny.” The directorial duo has also recently wrapped 44 animated idents for Orange’s forthcoming IPTV service through Red Bee which is due for release later in 2008, as well as its first Not To Scale production, a combo live-action/animation job for a forthcoming product launch for Canon, also due out later this year….Impactist, the directing team of Kelly Meador and Daniel Elwing, recently signed with Red Truck Films, Raleigh, N.C., for representation in the Southeast. The duo’s work is an inventive hybrid of real and synthetic elements, visual and musical, emotional and contemporary. Impactist’s credits include Nike, the Peace Corps and Westin….
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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