BRW USA has signed noted Israeli director Eli Sverdlov for U.S. commercial representation. Prior to joining BRW USA, Svedlov was represented in the U.S. market by rep Sarah Jenks, and continues to be handled globally by Independent, London, and his Tel Aviv-based company, Ginger G….Saneel Radia has been upped to director of innovation at BBH New York, charged with overseeing the design and implementation of agency-wide innovation initiatives. Formerly director of media innovation, Radia joined BBH back in May from Denuo where he was managing director overseeing the Alchemy practice, which created everything from games to apps…. Richie Glickman has been promoted to executive creative director on JWT New York's Royal Caribbean business. During his past four years as creative director at JWT, Glickman helped successfully transform many of the Kimberly-Clark brands. He has a strong body of work including his most recent effort for Huggies jeans diapers, which told us it was cool to “poo in blue.” The spot garnered 3 million views on YouTube. His previous work “Geyser” helped Huggies receive numerous accolades. British film titles designer Richard Morrison, producer and animation expert Dominic Buttimore and negative cutter Mo Henry have teamed to launch Los Angeles-based Morrison Buttimore Henry (MBH), a production company specializing in the deign of film title sequences and end credits….
Martin Scorsese On “The Saints,” Faith In Filmmaking and His Next Movie
When Martin Scorsese was a child growing up in New York's Little Italy, he would gaze up at the figures he saw around St. Patrick's Old Cathedral. "Who are these people? What is a saint?" Scorsese recalls. "The minute I walk out the door of the cathedral and I don't see any saints. I saw people trying to behave well within a world that was very primal and oppressed by organized crime. As a child, you wonder about the saints: Are they human?" For decades, Scorsese has pondered a project dedicated to the saints. Now, he's finally realized it in "Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints," an eight-part docudrama series debuting Sunday on Fox Nation, the streaming service from Fox News Media. The one-hour episodes, written by Kent Jones and directed by Elizabeth Chomko, each chronicle a saint: Joan of Arc, Francis of Assisi, John the Baptist, Thomas Becket, Mary Magdalene, Moses the Black, Sebastian and Maximillian Kolbe. Joan of Arc kicks off the series on Sunday, with three weekly installments to follow; the last four will stream closer to Easter next year. In naturalistic reenactments followed by brief Scorsese-led discussions with experts, "The Saints" emphasizes that, yes, the saints were very human. They were flawed, imperfect people, which, to Scorsese, only heightens their great sacrifices and gestures of compassion. The Polish priest Kolbe, for example, helped spread antisemitism before, during WWII, sheltering Jews and, ultimately, volunteering to die in the place of a man who had been condemned at Auschwitz. Scorsese, who turns 82 on Sunday, recently met for an interview not long after returning from a trip to his grandfather's hometown in Sicily. He was made an honorary citizen and the experience was still lingering in his mind. Remarks have... Read More