June 19, 2018 Feature, commercial and branded content director John Hillcoat, who’s handled in the ad arena by Serial Pictures, has seen Corazón, his 48-minute film about organ donation for Montefiore hospital out of agency JohnXHannes, NY, win the Cannes Lions Health & Wellness Grand Prix. Corazón was lensed by Oscar-nominated (Arrival) cinematographer Bradford Young, ASC, and scored by Oscar-winning composer Atticus Ross (The Social Network)…MJZ earned most honored production company distinction at the AICP Awards (spanning the AICP Show and Next Awards) with 13 honors followed by m ss ng p eces and Craft New York/Traction Creative, which each earned four honors. The Corner Shop, Furlined, O Positive and SMUGGLER each received three honors. Among directors, Spike Jonze and Matthijs van Heijningen, both of MJZ, each received five honors. David Shane of O Positive, Malik Vitthal of The Corner Shop, and Dougal Wilson of Furlined each received three honors. On the agency front, BBDO New York earned 10 honors and Wieden+Kennedy earned eight honors, TBWAMedia Arts Lab had seven honors. McCann New York had five honors, while Saatchi & Saatchi had four. Leo Burnett had three honors, as did the in-house agency at Apple….
June 21, 2013 Director Paris Barclay was elected president of the Directors Guild of America by acclamation at the Guild’s National Biennial Convention held at DGA headquarters in Los Angeles….David Perry, executive VP/head of broadcast production at Saatchi & Saatchi New York for the past 24 years, is leaving that position at the end of July. Succeeding him as head of broadcast production on August 1 will be John Doris, currently an executive producer at Saatchi whom Perry hired from the agency’s London office seven years ago. Perry broke into the agency community as a music director for JWT New York. After four years there, he moved over to BBDO New York and filled the producer’s slot vacated by Jerry Bruckheimer who had gone to Hollywood to see if he could get into the movies. After four years at BBDO, Perry landed his first head of production job, moving over to Scali McCabe Sloves, succeeding Ken Yagoda who had gone over to FCB. Perry spent 10 years at Scali, which included memorable work for Volvo, Maxell and Hertz. Perry then briefly went to the Midwest, heading production at JWT Chicago before returning to NY to begin his tenure at Saatchi…
