Goodby, Silverstein & Partners has hired Joakim Borgstrom as creative director. He comes over from Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam and will be working closely with Rick Condos and Hunter Hindman on Chevrolet….Bicoastal Park Pictures is slated to open its first-ever London office January 1, 2011. The new hub will be run by executive producer Stephen Brierley, former head of production at Stink, London. The U.K. operation will seek out opportunities in Europe for Park Pictures’ directors. Plans also call for selectively building a Park U.K. directorial roster….Montreal-based director Guillaume de Fontenay, has joined production houses Hello! for U.S. representation and Suneeva for projects out of Canada. De Fontenay’s work has earned assorted awards, most notably the Grand Prix and two Golds at the 2006 Cassies for the Quebec Federation of Milk Processors’ “Lait Au Chocolat” for the Quebec Federation of Milk Producers via BBDO, Montreal. He has also garnered two Marcus Awards at the European Car Advertising Film Festival, as well as three Silver Screen Awards®including one for direction–at the U.S. International Film and Video Festival in Chicago….
Ron Cicero and Bo Clancey Launch Production House 34North
Executive producers Ron Cicero and Bo Clancey have teamed to launch 34North. The shop opens with a roster which includes accomplished directors Jan Wentz, Ben Nakamura Whitehouse and Mario Feil, as well as such up-and-coming filmmakers as Glenn Stewart and Chris Fowles.
Nakamura Whitehouse, Feil and Fowles come over from CoMPANY Films, the production company for which Cicero served as an EP for the past nearly five years.
Director Wentz had most recently been with production house Skunk while Stewart now gains his first U.S. representation.
EP Clancey was freelance producing prior to the formation of 34North. He and Cicero have known each other for some 25 years, recently reconnecting on a job directed by Fowles. Cicero said that he and Clancey “want to keep a highly focused roster where talent management can be one on one--where we all share in the directors’ success together.”
Clancey also brings an agency pedigree to the new venture. “I started at Campbell Ewald in accounts, no less,” said Clancey. “I saw firsthand how much work agencies put in before we even see a script. You have to respect that investment. These agency experiences really shaped my approach to production--it’s about empathy, listening between the lines, and ultimately making the process seamless.”
34North represents a meeting point--both literally and creatively. Named after the latitude of Malibu, Calif., where the idea for the company was born, it also embraces the power of storytelling. “34North118West was the first GPS-enabled narrative,” Cicero explained. “That blend of art and technology, to captivate an audience, mirrors what we do here--create compelling work, with talented people, harnessing state-of-the-art... Read More