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    2014 O’Toole Media and Creative Winners honored at 4A’s Confab

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    LOS ANGELES --

    The 4A’s, the trade association representing the advertising agency business, announced the winners of its 2014 4A’s O’Toole Awards for Creative and Media Excellence during its Transformation: The Idea Effect conference in Los Angeles.

    The O’Toole Creative Awards, were presented by Susan Credle, chief creative officer, Leo Burnett USA, and Victor Ortez, former WBC welterweight champion.

    O’TooleBox: BBDO New York
    Large Agency: BBDO New York
    Mid-Size Agency: Barton F. Graf 9000 LLC
    Small Agency: Baldwin&

    The O’Toole Media Awards are given to member agencies that consistently drive media excellence through innovation, transformation and creativity in media planning and/or buying functions.

    Joe Apprendi, CEO of Collective, presented the O’Toole Media Awards. Collective is the founding sponsor of the Media Awards and will donate $30,000 to the 4A’s Foundation, which uses funds to underwrite scholarships for multicultural students in media and create arts. Each winner will receive $10,000 for a charity of their choice and are encouraged to donate to the 4A’s Foundation.

    Large: Horizon Media
    Mid-Sized: Spark
    Small Agency: Duncan/Channon

    Since 1991, the O’Toole Awards have recognized the highest level of excellence for an agency’s body of work on behalf of multiple clients, with entries open to creative agencies of all sizes, including international agencies. In 2013, the 4A’s added the category for media planning and buying excellence.




    “The Alabama Solution” and “The Stringer” added to Sundance Film Festival lineup

    Wednesday, January 8, 2025
    A scene from "The Alabama Solution" (courtesy of Sundance Institute)

    The nonprofit Sundance Institute announced the addition of two feature films to the current 2025 Sundance Film Festival program, bringing the total feature films at this year’s Festival to 88 projects. The Festival will take place from January 23–February 2, 2025, in person in Park City and Salt Lake City, Utah, with all of the competition films and more available online from January 30–February 2, 2025, for audiences across the country.

    The latest feature films world premiering at the upcoming Festival are documentaries The Alabama Solution and The Stringer, both in the Premieres category. Each of the projects are directed by filmmakers who have presented their works at previous editions of the Sundance Film Festival. The Stringer director Bao Nguyen premiered Be Water (2020) and The Greatest Night in Pop (2024), while The Alabama Solution director Andrew Jarecki has brought three projects to the Festival previously: Capturing the Friedmans (2003), Just a Clown (2004), and The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst (2015).

    “Adding these two nonfiction features to our robust slate of documentary offerings at the Festival, both told by filmmakers who have been a part of our Sundance community for many years, completes our programming with compelling explorations around justice and truth-telling,” said Kim Yutani, Sundance Film Festival director of programming.

    The Sundance Film Festival is an artist program of Sundance Institute, a nonprofit that impacts thousands of artists every year through its year-round artist programs, the Festival, and through Sundance Collab, its online educational filmmaking platform. Profits from Festival ticket sales go to... Read More

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