Hugo Bierschenk and Dean Woodhouse have joined the creative department of BBH New York. The hybrid creative team comes over from BBH London where they spent the past four years, turning out notable campaigns for Axe, Mentos, MySpace and British Airways. Bierschenk and Woodhouse’s collaborations have won 10 Cannes lions, one D&AD, numerous Campaign awards and five Mobile Marketing Awards….Cara Cutrone has joined N.Y.-based design and visual effects studio Spontaneous as VP, managing director. She will lead an innovative creative group and an experienced production team at Spontaneous, overseeing all client and account relationships. Her mandate will also see her partnering with director of sales Amy Zale to spearhead new strategic business opportunities, working with creative director John Leamy to set creative goals and standards across all media screens as well as heading talent recruitment. Prior to Spontaneous, Cutrone was executive producer at BlueRock and a sr. producer at Charlex. Jennifer Lederman will assume BlueRock VP/managing director duties in mid February….Graphic designer Tim Howe, previously with Digital Kitchen in Seattle, has found a new home at 3008, the Dallas editing, audio and FX boutique. Howe’s work at 3008 began with projects for Suddenlink via The Richards Group, and Hasbro via Uproar!/Dallas. The former included four animated commercials illustrating the ease of bundling Internet, TV, phone and security with Suddenlink. For Hasbro, Howe concepted and executed a 2D video for kids participating in the Nerf Battle Of The Ads promotion. Howe joins 3008’s design team of Todd Doane, design/VFX, and Jenna Milano, GFX/After Effects….
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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