Director Howard Greenhalgh and the directorial collective Crush have joined the roster of Zoo Film, Hollywood. Greenhalgh had formerly been repped stateside by Believe. He continues to be handled in the U.K. by Home.corp. As for Crush, this is the first time that this team has had U.S. representation….Director Beverley Fortnum has joined the roster of Love, London. She comes over from U.K. house Wanted. Prior to breaking into directing, Fortnum was a leading beauty products creative director in the U.K., having worked at Leo Burnett, Grey and Saatchi & Saatchi….Amy Lazarus, formerly of Mad River Post, has joined the creative editorial company Bluerock in New York as executive producer, reporting to Bluerock president/COO Roe Bressan….Director/designer Daniel Garcia has joined production studio vitamin, Chicago….Ben Fischler has been named VFX supervisor for the CG department of LAIKA/house, Portland, Ore. He comes over from DreamWorks Animation, where he worked as a production lighter on such projects as Madagascar, Bee Movie, Shrek2, Shrek The Third, and Over The Hedge….New York-headquartered JSM Music has hired exec producers Ross Hopman and Tony Harris. Hopman returns to JSM where he began his career. He had most recently been at musical management and representation firm International Artists Agency, where he worked with such artists as The Wu-Tang Clan, Nas and Peter Murphy. Harris comes to JSM with 10 years of agency experience working at BBDO Detroit and Campbell-Ewald as a broadcast producer….Comma, an original music house based in Chicago, has brought exec producer Vicki Ordeshook on board to head the company’s recently launched L.A. office….
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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