Post house Company 3 (CO3) has expanded its New York-based beauty division under the leadership of creative director Randie Swanberg. The division, which handles projects for beauty brands including Avon, Olay and Pantene, has tripled in size since its inception in 2009, adding two Autodesk Flame compositing systems along with multiple seats of The Foundry's Nuke and Adobe After Effects systems. Along with the hire of four staff artists, including senior VFX artist Tom McCullough, a production team and two junior artists in training, senior producer Angela Lupo has been promoted as the department's executive producer….Editor Joel Miller has returned to Cut+Run. He comes over from Nomad. Miller's work over the years has garnered numerous awards, including BTAAs. Creative Circle honors and a BTA Award. His credits include adidas, Coca-Cola, Honda, NY Lotto and Yahoo. He started out as an assistant at Cut+Run and then moved up to the editor's chair….The Association of National Advertisers (ANA) elected six new marketing industry leaders to its board of directors, and named a new chair, vice chair and treasurer. Assuming the role of board chair will be Gary Elliott, VP, Corporate Marketing of Hewlett-Packard Company. Stephen F. Quinn, executive VP and CMO of Walmart U.S. will become vice chair. Mark R. Baynes, VP/global CMO of Kellogg Company will become treasurer. The new members of the ANA Board are: Jill Beraud, CMO, PepsiCo Americas Beverages; Marie T. Devlin, sr. VP, Global Advertising, Media and Sponsorships, American Express Company; Paul Edwards, executive director, Marketing Strategy, General Motors Corporation; Natalia Franco, exec VP/global CMO, Burger King Corporation; Marilyn Mersereau, sr. VP, Corporate Marketing, Cisco Systems, Inc.; and Marc S. Pritchard, global marketing and brand building officer, The Procter & Gamble Company…
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