BBH New York has promoted Nate Able and Caprice Yu to creative directors. They previously served as associate creative directors. In their new positions, Able will help lead creative on the agency’s Johnnie Walker and UNICEF teams while Yu will do the same for the Cole Haan and Google teams. Able and Yu continue to report to BBH U.S. chief creative officer John Patroulis. Able has tackled assignments for a number of BBH clients, including the recently launched AXE ‘Susan Glenn’ campaign. Prior to joining the agency last year, he spent a majority of his career on the West Coast in San Francisco as an art director at McCann Worldgroup, T.A.G. and agencytwofifteen, where he worked on Halo 3’s “Believe.” Yu helped BBH and Google Creative Lab earn Best of Show at this year’s AICP Show for her work on Google Chrome’s first global TV campaign, “The Web is What You Make Of It,” consisting of the spots “Dear Sophie,” “It Gets Better” and “Bieber.” Earlier she was with Crispin Porter + Bogusky in Boulder, Colo., and 180 Amsterdam…Executive producers Ben Morris and Ron Cicero have launched Clutch, a production studio specializing in an integrated approach to design, live-action and visual effects work for both traditional and non-traditional media. Between then, Morris and Cicero have produced a broad range of projects including live action spots, motion graphics, a video game, a Gold Pencil winning pop-up museum, branded web content shortlisted at One Show Entertainment, flash mobs, and video content for an Opera at MIT. Clutch will represent a roster of six directors: David Edwards, Daniel Levi, Kevin Lau, Clement Bolla, Jens Gehlaar and Eric Stoltz…..
Utah Leaders and Locals Rally To Keep Sundance Film Festival In The State
With the 2025 Sundance Film Festival underway, Utah leaders, locals and longtime attendees are making a final push — one that could include paying millions of dollars — to keep the world-renowned film festival as its directors consider uprooting.
Thousands of festivalgoers affixed bright yellow stickers to their winter coats that read "Keep Sundance in Utah" in a last-ditch effort to convince festival leadership and state officials to keep it in Park City, its home of 41 years.
Gov. Spencer Cox said previously that Utah would not throw as much money at the festival as other states hoping to lure it away. Now his office is urging the Legislature to carve out $3 million for Sundance in the state budget, weeks before the independent film festival is expected to pick a home for the next decade.
It could retain a small presence in picturesque Park City and center itself in nearby Salt Lake City, or move to another finalist — Cincinnati, Ohio, or Boulder, Colorado — beginning in 2027.
"Sundance is Utah, and Utah is Sundance. You can't really separate those two," Cox said. "This is your home, and we desperately hope it will be your home forever."
Last year's festival generated about $132 million for the state of Utah, according to Sundance's 2024 economic impact report.
Festival Director Eugene Hernandez told reporters last week that they had not made a final decision. An announcement is expected this year by early spring.
Colorado is trying to further sweeten its offer. The state is considering legislation giving up to $34 million in tax incentives to film festivals like Sundance through 2036 — on top of the $1.5 million in funds already approved to lure the Utah festival to its neighboring... Read More