Coral Garvey has come aboard Havas Worldwide’s NY office as head of art. She will report to Jason Musante, managing director and group executive creative director of Havas Worldwide NY. Previously, Garvey served as design director at Silver&Partners and throughout her career has worked with marquee brands such as Kate Spade, Nike, Motorola, Ben and Jerry’s, Samsung, Coca-Cola, Sephora, Levi’s, adidas and Google. Garvey was also one of Anomaly NY’s first creative hires. Her career highlights include serving as lead designer on the Converse brand re-launch and Cannes Grand Prix-winning “Be Stupid” campaign for Diesel….Entertainment branding and marketing innovations agency Troika, headed by founder/CEO Dan Pappalardo, has added live action director and creative director Richard D’Alessio. A commercial helmer with prominent Super Bowl ads to his credit, including “Cedric Date” for Bud Light, D’Alessio is also a creator of branded content series. He currently writes and directs TV promo, web and direct to brand campaigns worldwide for such clients as Volkswagen, Budweiser, Nintendo, Pepsi, Snickers, and General Motors, and TV networks such as Scripps, Showtime and Lifetime….World Famous, a creative collective of directors, designers, editors, writers and artists, has hired David Kleinman as EP and Kelly Green as head of production. Kleinman will be based in World Famous’ new L.A. studio, overseeing business development nationally, including commercials and long-form creative content, working with longtime EP Megan Ball in the Seattle market. Meanwhile Green will oversee creative operations out of World Famous’ Seattle headquarters. Kleinman was most recently managing director of entertainment marketing at mOcean. Green was EP at The New Blank, a motion design firm. She earlier served as a producer at Hal Riney & Partners, and a sr. producer at Publicis in the West….
Writers of “Conclave,” “Say Nothing” Win Scripter Awards
The authors and screenwriters behind the film “Conclave” and the series “Say Nothing” won the 37th-annual USC Libraries Scripter Awards during a black-tie ceremony at USC’s Town and Gown ballroom on Saturday evening (2/22).
The Scripter Awards recognize the year’s 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 “Conclave.”
In accepting the award, Straughan said, “Adaptation is a really strange process, you’re very much the servant of two masters. In a way it’s an act of betrayal of one master for the other.” He joked that “You start off with a book that you love, you read it again and again, and then you end up throwing it over your shoulder,” crediting author Robert Harris for being “so kind, so generous, so open throughout.”
In the episodic series category, Joshua Zetumer and Patrick Radden Keefe won for the episode “The People in the Dirt” from the limited series “Say Nothing,” which Zetumer adapted from Keefe’s nonfiction book about the Troubles in Ireland.
Zetumer referenced this year’s extraordinary group of Scripter finalists, saying “projects like these reminded me of why I wanted to become a writer when I was sitting in USC’s 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.”
Special guest for the evening, actress and producer Jennifer Beals, shared her thoughts on the impact of libraries. “If ever you are at a loss wondering if there is good in the world,” she said, “you have only to go to a... Read More