Augé Reichenberg is joining McCann HumanCare, the consumer-focused health & wellness agency of McCann Health, as executive VP, executive creative director. Reichenberg joins from Rosetta Digital Marketing where she also held the post of executive creative director. Reichenberg led an 87-person creative department at Rosetta Digital Marketing, comprised of art directors, designers, copywriters, UX architects, medical editors, and graphic artists, across three locations, including London. Earlier she held senior creative posts at New York-based Young & Rubicam, MRM//McCann and FCB. Over the years, Reichenberg has worked in virtually every health and wellness category, on both consumer-facing and professional products. Brand launches and relaunches include national campaigns for MetLife, Spiriva, Prolia, Enbrel, Auxilium, Colgate Plus Toothbrushes, Prolia, Gilenya, Xiaflex and Allergan (Europe). She has served as both a Cannes Lion and Effie judge and her work has been recognized by the Art Director’s Club and healthcare awards such as the MM&M Awards, DTC 360o and most recently, the Health Care Clios 2014, and Effies in 2013….The Association of Commercial Stock Image Licensors (ACSIL), a trade association serving the interests of the world’s leading archival footage and stock licensors, has a pair of newly elected co-presidents. Max Segal, director, HBO Archives/March of Time Documentaries, was elected to his third term as co-president, and will continue his work to develop a profile for ACSIL’s members within the international creative communities. Clara Fon-Sing, VP and general manager, Archives Sales & Strategy, NBC News, was elected to her first term as co-president, and will lead a new ACSIL Strategy Group to address industry developments and explore emerging business models to influence the commercial archives ecosystem. Each ACSIL co-president serves a two-year term. Additionally, Matthew White was hired as ACSIL’s executive director. White, who was the first president of ACSIL, has been active in the development of audio-visual archives since 1986, when he founded the WPA Film Library. He has also served in senior management positions at National Geographic Ventures and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, where he was executive director of the American Archive….
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