Cross-cultural agency the community, part of SapientNitro, has added Tomás Duhalde, Guilherme Nóbrega and Frederico Nicolás Díaz to its creative team. The new hires come as the agency continues its investment in talent to support its new business growth, which includes recently being named digital agency of record for Beam Suntory’s tequila portfolio.
Duhalde and Nóbrega both join the community as sr. art directors, while Díaz joins as a sr. copywriter. Reporting directly to co-founder and chief creative officer Joaquín Mollá, the trio will work on a variety of the Miami-based agency’s largest clients, including Corona and Modelo. They share 17 Cannes Lions awards between them, as well as various other recognitions from organizations such as the One Club, Clios, Effies and D&AD.
Prior to joining the community, Duhalde was an art director at Ogilvy & Mather Buenos Aires. He also worked as an art director at Grey Buenos Aires. Throughout his career Duhalde has worked for brands such as P&G, Schnieder, Huggies, and Playboy.
Most recently, Nóbrega was an art director at Ogilvy & Mather, with stints in both of its London and São Paulo offices. He also held roles at Widen + Kennedy London, DM9DDB and AlmapBBDO. Nóbrega has developed award-winning work for local and global brands like Coca-Cola, Unilever, Apple, Burger King, Dove, Huggies and Motorola.
Díaz started his career at Grey Buenos Aires and then moved to Don and Ogilvy & Mather, also in Buenos Aires. Throughout his career, he has worked for national and international brands like Reebok, Schneider, Huggies, AMIA, Fibertel and Cablevision.
Rom-Com Mainstay Hugh Grant Shifts To The Dark Side and He’s Never Been Happier
After some difficulties connecting to a Zoom, Hugh Grant eventually opts to just phone instead.
"Sorry about that," he apologizes. "Tech hell." Grant is no lover of technology. Smart phones, for example, he calls the "devil's tinderbox."
"I think they're killing us. I hate them," he says. "I go on long holidays from them, three or four days at at time. Marvelous."
Hell, and our proximity to it, is a not unrelated topic to Grant's new film, "Heretic." In it, two young Mormon missionaries (Chloe East, Sophie Thatcher) come knocking on a door they'll soon regret visiting. They're welcomed in by Mr. Reed (Grant), an initially charming man who tests their faith in theological debate, and then, in much worse things.
After decades in romantic comedies, Grant has spent the last few years playing narcissists, weirdos and murders, often to the greatest acclaim of his career. But in "Heretic," a horror thriller from A24, Grant's turn to the dark side reaches a new extreme. The actor who once charmingly stammered in "Four Weddings and a Funeral" and who danced to the Pointer Sisters in "Love Actually" is now doing heinous things to young people in a basement.
"It was a challenge," Grant says. "I think human beings need challenges. It makes your beer taste better in the evening if you've climbed a mountain. He was just so wonderfully (expletive)-up."
"Heretic," which opens in theaters Friday, is directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, co-writers of "A Quiet Place." In Grant's hands, Mr. Reed is a divinely good baddie — a scholarly creep whose wry monologues pull from a wide range of references, including, fittingly, Radiohead's "Creep."
In an interview, Grant spoke about these and other facets of his character, his journey... Read More