Sound designer/engineer Weston Fonger, whose clients over the years include Coca-Cola, DirecTV, Mitsubishi, Suzuki, Colgate and Lexus, has joined music/sound house Yessian which maintains offices in New York, Detroit, L.A., and Hamburg.
Fonger’s spots for Carmax and Hyundai aired during the 2011 Super Bowl. He has also been judging the Sound Design category at this year’s AICP Show.
Fonger studied Communications and Music at UMass Amherst and Music Production and Engineering at Boston’s Berklee College of Music. He began his career in New York at Howard Schwartz Recording (HSRNY) assisting automated dialogue replacement (ADR) sessions on projects like The Simpsons and X-Men: The Last Stand before migrating his way to audioEngine, also in NYC, where he worked as a mixer/sound designer for almost five years for clients such as HBO, Sony, Converse, Revlon and Visa.
Fonger’s longer format work includes animation films for Academy Award-nominated animator Bill Plympton, several TV pilots for comedian Dave Attell, Brian Iglesias’ documentary film Chosin, the feature film Aardvark by director Kitao Sakurai, and a film about R&B artist Maxwell titled Five Days of Black. Fonger also did mix and sound design for Green by Sophia Takal, a 74-minute drama that won awards at this year’s SXSW Festival.
SUPERLATIVE Signs Director Claudia Abend For Spots and Branded Content
Latin American director/editor and documentary filmmaker Claudia Abend has joined SUPERLATIVE for her first U.S. representation spanning commercials and branded content.
Abend's empathetic docu-style POV has garnered several international awards for the documentary films Hit (2008) and The Flower of Life (2018). Her spotmaking credits include such brands as Procter & Gamble, Nestle and Blue Cross/Blue Shield. SUPERLATIVE has already worked with Abend, together producing a new ad campaign for digital agency Tinuiti and The Honest Company, a consumer goods corporation featuring eco-minded products.
“We found Claudia through her poignant documentaries on the festival circuit,” said SUPERLATIVE creative manager Stefan Dezil. “We are excited about her textured narratives, emotional storytelling, and her powerhouse long-form storytelling abilities, currently on her third feature film. As SUPERLATIVE continues to build our brand after premiering our latest films at Sundance and SXSW, Claudia is the kind of multidimensional artist we are excited to partner with on branded content and beyond. Fluent in English and Spanish, her reel shows real prowess with infants, food and skin products, families both young and old. Great visual storytelling and inspirational doc work.”
Abend began her career in her native Uruguay, studying film and editing in college. “My dad would show me films like Citizen Kane,” she said. “I love cinema and became an editor. It was here that I learned all about communicating human emotion.”
From the get-go, Abend hit it big as a documentary director, teaming with Adrianna Loeff on Hit, a movie chronicling pop artists of Uruguayan music. Abend took home a Best Editing... Read More