Director/cameraman Ericson Core has joined Wild Plum, Venice, Calif. Core has been active in both short and long-form fare. His credits include national commercials for such clients as UPS, BMW and Home Depot. On the feature film front, Core directed Disney’s Invincible starring Mark Wahlberg and will soon be taking over directing duties for the XXX franchise staring Vin Diesel…..Aero Film, Santa Monica, has signed director/visual effects artist Sam O’Hare. Based in New York, O’Hare just completed a Lunesta campaign…Los Angeles-based Zoic Studios, known for its visual effects work in commercials, feature films and episodic television, has launched a Design Group, which complements recent company expansions into gaming and integrated media. At the helm of the new Design Group are executive producer Miles Dinsmoor and creative director Derich Wittliff, who are backed by a team of artists and producers….Beacon Street Studios, Venice, Calif., has added Luis Rosario as in-house audio mixer. Rosario had formerly been at Eleven where he worked as an audio post mixer….Gotham Inc has brought Letitia Jacobs on board as head of content/managing partner, a newly created post at the New York-based agency. Jacobs spent the past seven years as a freelance broadcast producer working for such noted ad shops as Crispin Porter+Bogusky, Droga5, The Martin Agency, Wieden+Kennedy, Mother, and BBH….Austin Fonacier has joined agency 72andSunny, Los Angeles and Amsterdam, as sr. digital developer. He will guide the shop’s technology group in developing software engineering best practices. Fonacier previously served as a software engineer at AT&T…
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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