Jeremy Leeds has joined San Francisco-based production/post/motion graphics/interactive media studio TEAK as senior interactive producer. He will work closely with executive producer Greg Martinez.
Leeds specializes in managing large-scale, complex interactive and web development projects, working with clients on custom designed websites, microsites and landing pages that have included such features as email messaging platforms, robust content management systems, and interactive interfaces.
Leeds was recently at Mekanism where he produced a pair of marquee projects including a comprehensive Flash video microsite and a social network for Harmonix/EA’s popular Rock Band videogame. While at Mekanism, he also had a hand in comedic tongue-in-cheek interactive site for Tostitos, in which users can watch a fictional organization (the National Organization for Legislation Against Fun-NOLAF) rail against the detrimental effects of Tostitos chips.
Among the other clients for whom Leeds has worked on projects are Ferrari, McAfee, SoBe, Toshiba, TheTourOperator.com, Sony, Oracle, Ask Jeeves, Selectica, Emindhealth.com, Kodak, AirTreks and Charles Schwab.
Prior to Mekanism, Leeds was a senior interactive producer at Loomis Group, interactive producer at Attik, and project manager at Landor & Associates, and Fluid, Inc.
Ron Cicero and Bo Clancey Launch Production House 34North
Executive producers Ron Cicero and Bo Clancey have teamed to launch 34North. The shop opens with a roster which includes accomplished directors Jan Wentz, Ben Nakamura Whitehouse and Mario Feil, as well as such up-and-coming filmmakers as Glenn Stewart and Chris Fowles.
Nakamura Whitehouse, Feil and Fowles come over from CoMPANY Films, the production company for which Cicero served as an EP for the past nearly five years.
Director Wentz had most recently been with production house Skunk while Stewart now gains his first U.S. representation.
EP Clancey was freelance producing prior to the formation of 34North. He and Cicero have known each other for some 25 years, recently reconnecting on a job directed by Fowles. Cicero said that he and Clancey “want to keep a highly focused roster where talent management can be one on one--where we all share in the directors’ success together.”
Clancey also brings an agency pedigree to the new venture. “I started at Campbell Ewald in accounts, no less,” said Clancey. “I saw firsthand how much work agencies put in before we even see a script. You have to respect that investment. These agency experiences really shaped my approach to production--it’s about empathy, listening between the lines, and ultimately making the process seamless.”
34North represents a meeting point--both literally and creatively. Named after the latitude of Malibu, Calif., where the idea for the company was born, it also embraces the power of storytelling. “34North118West was the first GPS-enabled narrative,” Cicero explained. “That blend of art and technology, to captivate an audience, mirrors what we do here--create compelling work, with talented people, harnessing state-of-the-art... Read More