Brickyard Filmworks, Santa Monica and Boston, has brought film industry vet Marc Sadeghi on board as a partner, and hired VFX supervisor Sean Devereaux. Sadeghi served as a principal architect of the feature film effects division of Bay Area studio The Orphanage as its exec VP, forming successful vendor relationships with major studios, including Paramount, Warner Bros., Universal, Revolution, Sony, Miramax and New Line. During his tenure at the since shuttered The Orphanage, he oversaw visual effects production on films such as Iron Man, the first and second sequels to Pirates of the Caribbean, Die Hard 4, Superman Returns, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, Sin City, The Day After Tomorrow, Hellboy, Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle and Hero. Meanwhile Devereaux has more than 10 years of visual effects experience on film and commercial projects. He has served as senior VFX artist on feature films including Transformers, Speed Racer, Final Fantasy II and Live Free or Die Hard at Industrial Light + Magic, Digital Domain, Asylum and Hydraulx. He has also worked as a VFX supervisor on spots with such directors as Kinka Usher, Paul Hunter and Joe Pytka….Jonbi Gudmundsson has been named executive producer of international production service company Milk & Honey Films, Prague. He spent the past 11 years at leading Iceland production company Saga Films where he ran the production and production service departments….
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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