Sybil McCarthy-Hadfield has joined Los Angeles-based editorial/post house Jigsaw as executive producer. She comes over from the agency side, having served as a senior producer at TBWA/Chiat/Day, Los Angeles, where she worked on nearly every account there, including new automobile model launches for Nissan and Infiniti.
During her nine-year tenure at TBWA/Chiat/Day, McCarthy-Hadfield also worked on Sony PlayStation, the viral/Internet-based Pepsi “Oneify” campaign, and recently headed up the broadcast side of the new business pitch for McDonald’s.
Prior to TBWA/Chiat/Day, she produced at Arnold Worldwide, Boston, with campaigns for such accounts as Volkswagen, Titleist, NYNEX and McDonald’s to her credit.
Of the approach she plans at her new roost, McCarthy-Hadfield related, “If I can carry forth the same spirit of creativity and freedom that I found at TBWA into the postproduction arena at Jigsaw, we will win awards and collaborate more creatively with our clients. My intention is to build an effective support system at Jigsaw for agency creatives and producers. We will set out to demystify the postproduction process and provide solutions.”
McCarthy-Hadfield succeeds Traci Meyer as Jigsaw’s executive producer. Meyer left the business to pursue other interests. The Jigsaw talent roster includes editors Jon Hopp, Justin Trovato, David Trachtenberg and Peter Tarter, and Flame artist Mark Leiss.
Andrea Andrews is head of sales and marketing for Jigsaw. She handles sales nationally and teams with Mark Andrews and Astrid Steele of indie rep firm Where’s the Boards? to cover the West Coast.
Netflix Series “The Leopard” Spots Classic Italian Novel, Remakes It As A Sumptuous Period Drama
"The Leopard," a new Netflix series, takes the classic Italian novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa and transforms it into a sumptuous period piece showing the struggles of the aristocracy in 19th-century Sicily, during tumultuous social upheavals as their way of life is crumbling around them.
Tom Shankland, who directs four of the eight episodes, had the courage to attempt his own version of what is one of the most popular films in Italian history. The 1963 movie "The Leopard," directed by Luchino Visconti, starring Burt Lancaster, Alain Delon and Claudia Cardinale, won the Palme d'Or in Cannes.
One Italian critic said that it would be the equivalent of a director in the United States taking "Gone with the Wind" and turning it into a series, but Shankland wasn't the least bit intimidated.
He said that he didn't think of anything other than his own passion for the project, which grew out of his love of the book. His father was a university professor of Italian literature in England, and as a child, he loved the book and traveling to Sicily with his family.
The book tells the story of Don Fabrizio Corbera, the Prince of Salina, a tall, handsome, wealthy aristocrat who owns palaces and land across Sicily.
His comfortable world is shaken with the invasion of Sicily in 1860 by Giuseppe Garibaldi, who was to overthrow the Bourbon king in Naples and bring about the Unification of Italy.
The prince's family leads an opulent life in their magnificent palaces with servants and peasants kowtowing to their every need. They spend their time at opulent banquets and lavish balls with their fellow aristocrats.
Shankland has made the series into a visual feast with tables heaped with food, elaborate gardens and sensuous costumes.... Read More