Jen Stocksmith has been named creative director at Tribal DDB New York where she will be working on Pfizer Consumer Healthcare. Prior to joining Tribal DDB, Stocksmith provided creative leadership at mcgarrybowen for clients including Sharp Electronics and JPMorgan Chase. She began her ad career in Minnesota, spending time at several Minneapolis shops–such as Fallon and Campbell Mithun–before moving to the NYC….Belgium-based directing duo Norman Bates has joined Stink London….Director Richard Sears has joined Synthetic Pictures for exclusive North American representation. His filmography spans more than 100 commercials, a number of branded content campaigns and shorts. He has already wrapped a job via Synthetic for The Ramey Agency. His other spot credits over the years include such clients as Toyota Prius, University of Phoenix, Nissan, AT&T, Burger King, Sprint and Ole Miss. Sears' short film An Evil Town caught the eyes of creatives from Wieden+Kennedy, helping him to land a Nike assignment which broke him into the ad arena. He has a feature project, Bottom of the World, set to shoot this year….Anthony Roman has joined music production company Black Iris as music supervisor. He will head up the shop's just launched music supervision arm in Brooklyn, NY. Black Iris maintains studios in L.A., Brooklyn and in Richmond, Va. Founder of NYC band Radio 4, Roman has 20 years of music industry experience as performer, composer, producer and music supervisor. He has scored and music supervised film, TV and commercial projects for clients such as Mitsubishi, Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Nike, TriBeCa Films, FX, and Law and Order: SVU. Most recently he was music supervisor for Ira Glass' stage version of This American Life….
Oscar Nominees Delve Into The Art Of Editing At ACE Session
You couldn’t miss Sean Baker at this past Sunday’s Oscar ceremony where he won for Best Picture, Directing, Original Screenplay and Editing on the strength of Anora. However, earlier that weekend he was in transit from the Cesar Awards in Paris and thus couldn’t attend the American Cinema Editors (ACE) 25th annual panel of Academy Award-nominated film editors held at the Regal LA Live Auditorium on Saturday (3/1) in Los Angeles. While the eventual Oscar winner in the editing category was missed by those who turned out for the ACE “Invisible Art, Visible Artists” session, three of Baker’s fellow nominees were on hand--Dávid Jancsó, HSE for The Brutalist; Nick Emerson for Conclave; and Myron Kerstein, ACE for Wicked. Additionally, Juliette Welfling, who couldn’t appear in person due to the Cesar Awards, was present via an earlier recorded video interview to discuss her work on Emilia Pérez. The interview was conducted by ACE president and editor Sabrina Plisco, ACE who also moderated the live panel discussion. Kerstein said that he was the beneficiary of brilliant and generous collaborators, citing, among others, director Jon M. Chu, cinematographer Alice Brooks, and visual effects supervisor Pablo Helman. The editor added it always helps to have stellar acting performances, noting that hearing Cynthia Erivo, for example, sing live was a revelation. Kerstein recalled meeting Chu some eight years ago on a “blind Skype date” and it was an instant “bromance”--which began on Crazy Rich Asians, and then continued on such projects as the streaming series Home Before Dark and the feature In The Heights. Kerstein observed that Chu is expert in providing collaborators with... Read More