Michael Phillips is joining Eleven San Francisco as director of digital production and creative technology. He will serve as a senior level thought leader for the agency, helping to plan and execute digital strategies for clients as well as to manage the content development process in collaboration with internal and external teams. Phillips will work closely with Eleven’s creative, digital and account teams in leading and identifying opportunities for growth and profit with both new and existing clients. He comes over from Goodby Silverstein & Partners where he led the BETA Group, the agency’s internal creative-technology and digital innovation team. Prior to that, he was an executive producer at GS&P and led digital-production teams on Google, TD Ameritrade, Nintendo, Elizabeth Arden, Specialized Bicycles and Nature’s Way….Veteran digital and social strategy director Mike Chiavetta has joined bicoastal Stardust. He began his career in the tech start-up space, building tech platforms for entertainment brands. He then went to TBWAChiatDay and built out the social analytics department, working on the Nissan, Pepsi Co and Kraft accounts. He has led digital and social strategy for a variety of brands including Amazon, ExxonMobil, GameStop, Monster.com and Sony….
Writers of “Conclave,” “Say Nothing” Win Scripter Awards
The authors and screenwriters behind the film โConclaveโ and the series โSay Nothingโ won the 37th-annual USC Libraries Scripter Awards during a black-tie ceremony at USCโs Town and Gown ballroom on Saturday evening (2/22).
The Scripter Awards recognize the yearโs most accomplished adaptations of the written word for the screen, including both feature-length films and episodic series.
Novelist Robert Harris and screenwriter Peter Straughan took home the award for โConclave.โ
In accepting the award, Straughan said, โAdaptation is a really strange process, youโre very much the servant of two masters. In a way itโs an act of betrayal of one master for the other.โ He joked that โYou start off with a book that you love, you read it again and again, and then you end up throwing it over your shoulder,โ crediting author Robert Harris for being โso kind, so generous, so open throughout.โ
In the episodic series category, Joshua Zetumer and Patrick Radden Keefe won for the episode โThe People in the Dirtโ from the limited series โSay Nothing,โ which Zetumer adapted from Keefeโs nonfiction book about the Troubles in Ireland.
Zetumer referenced this yearโs extraordinary group of Scripter finalists, saying โprojects like these reminded me of why I wanted to become a writer when I was sitting in USCโs Leavey Library dreaming of becoming a screenwriter. If you fell in love with movies, or fell in love with TV, chances are you fell in love with something dangerous.โ
Special guest for the evening, actress and producer Jennifer Beals, shared her thoughts on the impact of libraries. โIf ever you are at a loss wondering if there is good in the world,โ she said, โyou have only to go to a... Read More