Havas Media Group has made several key leadership appointments across North America. Greg Walsh, global chief commercial officer, has expanded his role to include oversight of operations, commercial, investment, data, technology, and talent. As a result, he adds chief operations officer, Havas Media NA, to his duties. Amy Ginsberg has been named chief investment officer, responsible for the overall media investment vision and strategy and will join the NA leadership team. Ginsberg comes over from Canvas Worldwide where she led investment efforts since 2016. Prior to joining Canvas Worldwide, Ginsberg built her expertise at agencies Initiative, Ogilvy & Mather, Mindshare, and Zenith Media. She has serviced brands such as Papa Johns, Hyundai and Kia, Burlington, Arby’s, Merck, Ameriprise, and Miller Coors. Jason Kanefesky will serve as managing partner, head of marketplace intelligence, at Havas. This newly created leadership practice will ensure clients receive actionable intelligence and insights on partners, platforms, audiences, and supply and demand dynamics…..
Company 3/Method Studios’ Atlanta location has merged its creative editorial team (formerly provided as Beast Editorial) under the Company 3 banner and is making significant investments in connectivity and remote workflow technology to incorporate the previously siloed editorial team into Company 3’s full suite of post offerings. With the editorial group, led by editors Eddie Kesler and Matt Barron, seamlessly integrated into the company pipeline, “we will be able to enhance collaboration among our visual effects, color and sound departments,” said Company 3 Atlanta’s managing director/colorist Billy Gabor. “We believe this development will be particularly compelling for clients seeking the convenience and quality assurance we provide as an end-to-end, offline-to-delivery post facility.” Recent campaigns produced from offline-to-delivery include: Adidas’ “One More,” Iris Worldwide; and Coca-Cola’s “Coke With Coffee,” KO:OP…..
DOC NYC Unveils Main Slate Lineup: 31 World Premieres; 24 Films Making Their U.S. Debut
DOC NYC--the documentary festival celebrating its 15th anniversary in-person November 13-21 at IFC Center, SVA Theatre and Village East by Angelika, and continuing online through December 1--has unveiled its main slate lineup. The 2024 festival presents more than 110 feature-length documentaries (including yet-to-be-announced Short List and Winner’s Circle titles) among over 200 films and dozens of events, with filmmakers expected in person at most screenings.
Opening the festival on Nov. 13 at SVA Theater will be the U.S. premiere of Sinead O’Shea’s inspiring portrait Blue Road--The Edna O’Brien Story, a breakout hit from the recent Toronto International Film Festival that honors the legendary Irish writer, who passed away just a few months ago at the age of 93.
Closing the festival on Nov. 21, also at SVA Theatre, will be the world premiere of Peter Yost and Michael Rohatyn’s Drop Dead City--New York on the Brink in 1975, a look back at the circumstances and players involved in NYC’s mid-70s financial crisis. The festival’s Centerpiece screening on Nov. 14 at Village East is the World premiere of Ondi Timoner’s All God’s Children (also part of the festival’s U.S. Competition), a chronicle of a Brooklyn rabbi and Baptist pastor who join forces to create greater unity between their two communities, against all odds.
Included are 31 world premieres and 24 U.S. premieres, with eight of those presented in the U.S. Competition, for new American-produced nonfiction films, and another eight featured in International Competition, for work from around the globe. The Kaleidoscope Competition for new essayistic and formally adventurous documentaries continues, while the festival’s long-standing Metropolis... Read More