Matt Bonin, formerly VP/integrated head of production at Crispin Porter + Bogusky, Boulder, Colo., will join effective Sept. 1 agency/production hybrid Trailer Park Inc. as senior VP, director of integrated production, a newly created position at the company, which consists of Trailer Park Entertainment, an entertainment marketing agency, and Trailer Park Studios, a division which services non-entertainment clients.
Bonin will be responsible for the strategic guidance and leadership of Trailer Park’s integrated production services spanning the areas of digital, design and film. The combined production departments total 200-plus staff serving a broad range of entertainment and non-entertainment clients.
Bonin helped to shape Crispin’s integrated production department and helped grow it to over 100+ employees. Work he has either produced or supervised has been awarded nearly every industry accolade, including the highly-coveted Cannes Cyber, Titanium and Grand Prix Lions. He’s worked on such clients as Burger King, Volkswagen, Microsoft and Domino’s. Earlier in his career, Bonin was a producer at Y&R New York and DDB.
“Brands have more consumer touch-points than ever . . . Internet, social media, broadcast, retail, mobile and more. Trailer Park’s full-scale, in house production capabilities represent an arsenal of creative tools at our fingertips. It allows us to meet the increased need for content at the pace of the digital marketplace. Trailer Park’s creative staff, combined with its state-of-the-art production facility, enables the agency to truly function real-time,” stated Bonin.
Trailer Park, owned by private equity group Lake Capital, is led by agency veteran Rick Eiserman. Clients include Netflix, Orbitz, 2K Games, Sony, MySpace, Viacom and Disney.
Oscar Nominees Delve Into The Art Of Editing At ACE Session
You couldn’t miss Sean Baker at this past Sunday’s Oscar ceremony where he won for Best Picture, Directing, Original Screenplay and Editing on the strength of Anora. However, earlier that weekend he was in transit from the Cesar Awards in Paris and thus couldn’t attend the American Cinema Editors (ACE) 25th annual panel of Academy Award-nominated film editors held at the Regal LA Live Auditorium on Saturday (3/1) in Los Angeles. While the eventual Oscar winner in the editing category was missed by those who turned out for the ACE “Invisible Art, Visible Artists” session, three of Baker’s fellow nominees were on hand--Dávid Jancsó, HSE for The Brutalist; Nick Emerson for Conclave; and Myron Kerstein, ACE for Wicked. Additionally, Juliette Welfling, who couldn’t appear in person due to the Cesar Awards, was present via an earlier recorded video interview to discuss her work on Emilia Pérez. The interview was conducted by ACE president and editor Sabrina Plisco, ACE who also moderated the live panel discussion. Kerstein said that he was the beneficiary of brilliant and generous collaborators, citing, among others, director Jon M. Chu, cinematographer Alice Brooks, and visual effects supervisor Pablo Helman. The editor added it always helps to have stellar acting performances, noting that hearing Cynthia Erivo, for example, sing live was a revelation. Kerstein recalled meeting Chu some eight years ago on a “blind Skype date” and it was an instant “bromance”--which began on Crazy Rich Asians, and then continued on such projects as the streaming series Home Before Dark and the feature In The Heights. Kerstein observed that Chu is expert in providing collaborators with... Read More