Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2017

Pinterest often gets lumped in with social media apps like Instagram, Snapchat or Facebook, but people don’t use it to meet new people or to keep in touch with old classmates. It’s designed more to let you get in touch with your own interests, tastes and hobbies.

“There other people also...

Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2017

Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos' movies aren't the sort that typically attract a stampede of Hollywood A-listers.

His films, which he writes with Efthymis Filippou, are deadpan, midnight-black comedies that carry out grim allegorical absurdities to extreme ends. Characters speak stiltedly...

Friday, Oct. 27, 2017

Niklas Lindström, known for his production acumen yielding breakthrough work, is a partner in the just launched CALLEN, an independent creative agency in Austin, Texas. Founded by former Wieden+Kennedy (W+K) group creative director Craig Allen with partners Lindström and business entrepreneur...

Thursday, Oct. 5, 2017

Last month, Susan Hoffman, co-chief creative officer at Wieden+Kennedy, was inducted into the One Club for Creativity’s Creative Hall of Fame. Her fellow inductees were Rebeca Mendez, an artist designer and professor at UCLA, Design Media Arts, where she is director of the Counterforce Lab;...

Thursday, Sep. 28, 2017

Last week David Lubars, chief creative officer of BBDO Worldwide and chairman of BBDO North America, was inducted into the One Club for Creativity’s Creative Hall of Fame. 

This week he received the 2017 Clio Lifetime Achievement Award.

The Creative Hall of Fame has a rich heritage...

Tuesday, Sep. 26, 2017

Director Doug Liman loves spy stories and antiheroes, but he didn't anticipate having such a personal connection to the little-known story of TWA Pilot turned Medellin Cartel friend, drug smuggler and Drug Enforcement Agency informant Barry Seal, who became a central figure in the Reagan...

Wednesday, Sep. 13, 2017

If the Toronto International Film Festival has proven one thing, it's that Guillermo del Toro can work a room.

At the premiere of his festival sensation and surefire Oscar contender "The Shape of Water," the good-humored Mexican director had the audience of the Elgin Theatre in his thrall...

Thursday, Sep. 7, 2017

Back on February 1, Ari Weiss assumed his current position as chief creative officer of DDB North America. He came over from BBH New York where he spent six years, leading his teams to 24 Cannes Lions, ultimately serving there as CCO.

Under Weiss’ aegis, BBH NY turned out award-winning...

Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017

Scott Corbett first came to SHOOT’s attention in 2006. After first establishing himself as a freelance copywriter with tours of duty at shops such as TBWA\Chiat\Day and David&Goliath, Los Angeles, Corbett made a successful transition to directing, spurred on in part by inspired spec...

Monday, Aug. 28, 2017

Sabaah Folayan went to Ferguson, Missouri, three summers ago as a pre-med student hoping to find a way to ease the anger engulfing police and residents. She left a filmmaker.

Folayan and her co-director, Damon Davis, stitched together "Whose Streets?" — a documentary looking at the...

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