Sibling Rivalry Films has brought Kevin Castanheira aboard its directorial roster.
Castanheira began his career working as a DP. He would quickly transition into directing, building a portfolio of successful campaigns for the likes of Marshall Headphones, Huawei, Johnnie Walker, H&M, Casamigos and Rimowa. Castanheira continues to photograph, having shot stills on many of the campaigns he directs.
Craft is at the center of all projects he directs. He focuses on capturing counterculture with a heart, beautiful compositions, and working within a technical framework that accentuates his ability for storytelling–as illustrated by his VFX sensibilities during the Marshall Headphones and Alexa project. Prior to joining bicoastal Sibling Rivalry, Castanheira was repped by production house Friends & Family.
“Kevin is a versatile craftsman,” said Darren Foldes, managing director/executive producer at Sibling Rivalry Films. “His work spans multiple genres and the unifying voice amongst all of it is the high quality, future-facing casting, impeccable craftsmanship, and smart thinking. He makes it all seem so effortless but as we all know there’s a ton of work that goes into that.”
Global Witness Report: TikTok Let Through Disinformation In Political Ads Despite Its Own Ban
Just weeks before the U.S. presidential election, TikTok approved advertisements that contained election disinformation even though it has a ban on political ads, according to a report published Thursday by the nonprofit Global Witness.
The technology and environmental watchdog group submitted ads that it designed to test how well systems at social media companies work in detecting different types of election misinformation.
The group, which did a similar investigation two years ago, did find that the companies โ especially Facebook โ have improved their content-moderation systems since then.
But it called out TikTok for approving four of the eight ads submitted for review that contained falsehoods about the election. That's despite the platform's ban on all political ads in place since 2019.
The ads never appeared on TikTok because Global Witness pulled them before they went online.
"Four ads were incorrectly approved during the first stage of moderation, but did not run on our platform," TikTok spokesman Ben Rathe said. "We do not allow political advertising and will continue to enforce this policy on an ongoing basis."
Facebook, which is owned by Meta Platforms Inc., "did much better" and approved just one of the eight submitted ads, according to the report.
In a statement, Meta said while "this report is extremely limited in scope and as a result not reflective of how we enforce our policies at scale, we nonetheless are continually evaluating and improving our enforcement efforts."
Google's YouTube did the best, Global Witness said, approving four ads but not letting any publish. It asked for more identification from the Global Witness testers before it would publish them and "paused" their account... Read More