Bicoastal Cohn+Company has added director Harry Patramanis for spots….Director Danny Boyle is joining Hollywood-based SunSpots….Tombo, the Hollywood-headquartered production house founded by executive producer Fred Porter, has signed director Branson Veal….Swedish director Johan Tappert has signed with Compulsive Pictures, New York for commercial representation….VP/executive producer Matthew Charde has exited San Francisco-headquartered Red Sky’s entertainment division and is pursuing other opportunities. The entertainment group was created last fall after Red Sky acquired Boston- and Burbank-based animation/effects/live-action studio Olive Jar, in which Charde was a principal, and Los Angeles-based multimedia firm White Noise (SHOOT, 10/6/00, p. 1). Earlier this year, Red Sky filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection (see SHOOT’s "Street Talk," 7/27, p. 22)….Bicoastal Believe Media has fortified its U.K. presence via an association with Rose Hackney Barber, London. Believe Media’s London operation will be quartered on the Rose Hackney Barber premises, with executive producer Mark O’Sullivan continuing to represent the Believe directorial roster in the U.K….Hollywood-based Orbit Entertainment Group, the parent to commercial production house Orbit Productions, is set to produce Phoenix Pictures’ military thriller Basic. Directed by John McTiernan (Die Hard, The Hunt For Red October) and starring John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson, Basic is the first feature to come out of the strategic alliance entered into last year by Orbit Entertainment Group and Culver City, Calif.-based Phoenix Pictures (SHOOT, 1/21/00, p. 1)….PostWorks, New York, has named visual effects/graphics designer Victor Barroso director of the company’s newly created graphics and visual effects division…Smoke editor Nathan Hurlburt has joined Liquid Light, New York….Jeff Ross has come aboard Glendale, Calif.-based Sunset Digital (formerly Sunset Post) in the newly created role of executive VP/COO. Ross spent the past 11 years at Pacific Ocean Post, Santa Monica, joining as its COO in 1990 and then serving from ’97 on as managing director of POP Film and POP Animation (which have both since been merged into R!OT)….Amy Nicholson, creative director at the New York office of Wieden+Kennedy (W+K), has left the agency. Todd Waterbury, who had been at the Portland, Ore., headquarters of W+K, will succeed Nicholson….Nigel Williams has joined ad agency davidandgoliath, as creative director. He will be based in the shop’s Los Angeles headquarters (the agency also maintains a New York office), and report directly to David Angelo, chief creative officer/managing partner. Williams comes over from Suissa Miller Advertising, Los Angeles….After 15 years in business, Holland Mark Advertising, Boston, has closed. Clients serviced by the agency included Polaroid, which recently filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, Yankee Candle Co., and Veryfine Products’ juice line….
VCCP Hires Trio Of Creative Duos
Global communications network VCCP has brought three creative duos on board: Charli Camber (née Plant) and Laura Saraiva; Lance Boreham and Tom Dyson; and Jack Snell and Joe Lovett.
Associate creative directors Camber and Saraiva are a British-Portuguese duo known for creating entertaining, culturally influential, and emotionally resonant work. They are best known for “Waiting to Live,” a National Health Service (NHS) child organ donation campaign that placed 233 bespoke dolls representing children on the transplant waiting list in medical waiting rooms across the U.K. The campaign won over 50 awards, including three Cannes Lions, the Grand Prix at the Clios, ADC*E and Eurobest, as well as multiple D&AD Pencils.
Camber and Saraiva join VCCP after three years at VML, where they contributed to four agency pitch wins and worked across global brands including Batiste, Beko, and Duracell. They also helped launch the award-winning mentoring app Magpie and created “Check Me Out,” a provocative cervical cancer awareness campaign that gained traction on social media.
Boreham and Dyson join VCCP as a senior creative team. The duo first met on the renowned Watford ad course in 2014 and later reunited at isobel, where they delivered standout campaigns for Reed, Travelodge and Thortful. Their work has been recognized across the industry for its creativity and effectiveness.
Snell and Lovett also join VCCP as a senior creative team, marking a return to the agency where they spent the first seven years of their careers. During their initial tenure at VCCP, they played a pivotal role in launching major campaigns for Domino’s (“The Official Food of Everything”) and Virgin Media O2 (“Supercharge Your World”), as well as crafting... Read More