PS260 has hired Zeke Bowman to head up its Boston studio as executive producer. In this role, he will also run WKTF (We Know the Future), PS260’s integrated production arm that offers advertising solutions across all channels.
Bowman has more than 15 years of experience as an executive producer and has served as head of integrated production on the agency side with MullenLowe US. He’s worked on projects for global clients including Google, JetBlue and Acura. He’s produced, directed, done voiceover work, and now takes over PS260’s Boston outpost from Raná Martin, who has moved over to lead the Los Angeles office.
Recent work out of PS260 includes a three-spot campaign for American Express Business Card Chronicles, cut by PS260 partner/editor Maury Loeb and directed by Brian Beletic, which shortlisted at the AICP Post Awards for National Campaign. “The Bunny” spot in that campaign won Bronze Clios for both editing and B2B, and is nominated for awards from the ADC and One Show. PS260’s recent direct-to-client work includes projects for Titleist, Audible, Mailchimp, Meta, Puma, and YouTube.
Review: Director Morgan Neville’s “Piece by Piece”
A movie documentary that uses only Lego pieces might seem an unconventional choice. When that documentary is about renowned musician-producer Pharrell Williams, it's actually sort of on-brand.
"Piece by Piece" is a bright, clever song-filled biopic that pretends it's a behind-the-scenes documentary using small plastic bricks, angles and curves to celebrate an artist known for his quirky soul. It is deep and surreal and often adorable. Is it high concept or low? Like Williams, it's a bit of both.
Director Morgan Neville — who has gotten more and more experimental exploring other celebrity lives like Fred Rogers in "Won't You Be My Neighbor?,""Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain" and "Steve! (Martin): A Documentary in Two Pieces" — this time uses real interviews but masks them under little Lego figurines with animated faces. Call this one a documentary in a million pieces.
The filmmakers try to explain their device — "What if nothing is real? What if life is like a Lego set?" Williams says at the beginning — but it's very tenuous. Just submit and enjoy the ride of a poor kid from Virginia Beach, Virginia, who rose to dominate music and become a creative director at Louis Vuitton.
Williams, by his own admission, is a little detached, a little odd. Music triggers colors in his brain — he has synesthesia, beautifully portrayed here — and it's his forward-looking musical brain that will make him a star, first as part of the producing team The Neptunes and then as an in-demand solo producer and songwriter.
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