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 New Signing FINCH add the fantastical Funkuncle to their roster.
18 March 2025 FINCH in Australia has added Funkuncle to its talented line-up of directors, and judging from his work, they've tapped into a supremely strange but hugely talented prospect. Just looking at the work at his website, you find your eyes narrowing, and your moth involuntarily forming the words "what the..." with the swear word of your choice ending the exclamation.
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 New Signing Rollo Scott signs to Bite Collective.
18 March 2025 Food director Rollo Scott says it's a "dream to have been offered a seat at the table" by BITE Collective. "Food has always been my passion", he says, and he's channelled that obsession into commercials, social media, and cookery programmes. A "very happy" Scott is now keen to work with more brands in the vein of Löfbergs, Glenmorangie, Berghaus, and Stella Artois.
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 New Signing Spindle swoops for Bonnie MacRae.
18 March 2025 Spindle has signed a certified up-and-comer in the form of Dundee-born writer and director Bonnie MacRae, who released her debut short film, ‘Mind Yersel’, in 2020. As her hometown reckoned with Covid-19 and a male suicide crisis, MacRae threw herself heart and soul into a film picked up by BBC Scotland and the NHS for its empathy and lyrical power.
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 New Signing MindsEye enlists Carl Sundemo.
14 March 2025 According to his LinkedIn profile, director Carl Sundemo—now on the books at MindsEye—is all about "stupid ideas presented in a serious way". That suits MD Hughie Phillips down to the ground: "We take fun seriously at MindsEye, and Carl's work embodies that philosophy to perfection. His work is equal parts bizarre and brilliant with a solid sprinkling of unexpectedness at every turn."
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 New Signing Matt Lambert arrives at Object & Animal.
13 March 2025 Los Angeles-born, Berlin-based filmmaker, photographer, creative director, and curator Matt Lambert is now represented by Object & Animal everywhere except France and Germany. Known for his incisive exploration of LGBTQ+ themes, Lambert flits between commercials, music videos, and photography with ease—on top of that, he co-directed episodes of 'Eldorado: Everything the Nazis Hate' with Benjamin Cantu for Netflix.
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 New Signing Agile Films welcomes Courtney Phillips.
13 March 2025 Director Courtney Phillips has signed to Agile Films for commercial and music video representation. Head of Sales Georgie Evans says: "I know I speak for the whole team when I say that we are so thrilled to have Courtney join us. His ambition and energy are contagious—each piece of Courtney's work carries a unique identity and cultural significance."
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 New Signing Covert breaks cover to sign with Lemonade Reps.
13 March 2025 Covert, an industrious visual effects and post-production company known for its "audacious humour" and "striking visuals", is now part of the Lemonade Reps gang. Founded in 2016 by Toby Wheeler and Simon Dewey, Covert swore by remote working from the off. When the pandemic hit in 2020, it almost immediately adapted to the new normal.
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News Bite VCCP score six new creatives.
12 March 2025 VCCP has hired not one, not two, but three creative teams: Jack Snell and Joe Lovett; Lance Boreham and Tom Dyson; and Laura Saraiva and Charli Camber (née Plant). Chief Creative Officers Jonny Parker and Chris Birch call them "fearless thinkers who push boundaries," adding: "We're chuffed to have them here helping us make work that properly populates culture".
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 New Signing Daniel & Szymon join Arts & Sciences
11 March 2025 Daniel Schaefer and Szymon Rose began their career at the prestigious Hamburg agency Jung von Matt in 2006, before stints at BBH in London and W+K in Amsterdam extended their experience and knowledge. They then triumphantly returned to Jung von Matt as CC)s, and partners. Over the years, they've worked with some of the biggest brands in the world... and now they're looking forward to a new challenge.
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 New Signing Robbie Samuels heads to Not Just Any.
11 March 2025 Not Just Any's new director is, well, not just any director. Sometimes known as superocketman (like Elton John's 'Rocket Man', only better), Robbie Samuels is a graduate of Central St Martins and Edinburgh College of Art who's made short films like 'Hip Hop Café', directed Brian 'Logan Roy' Cox in a TNT Sports ad, and bought a Moviola for the love of 35mm film.
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 New Signing Kate Halpin's bound for CANADA.
11 March 2025 Australian director Kate Halpin has joined CANADA for representation in the UK, US, and Spain. She says: I've been a fan (and shameless social stalker) of CANADA for a long time. Their dedication to craft and pushing creative boundaries is hugely inspiring, as are the top-notch bunch of producers leading the helm. I’m beyond excited to be joining such a talented roster of directors and by the opportunity to collaborate with creatives at the top of their game."
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News Bite Park Pictures welcome Vyvy Ly in the Netherlands.
11 March 2025 As Park Pictures continues to expand its presence in the Netherlands, the company has brought Vyvy Ly on board as Head of Talent/Executive Producer for Amsterdam. Ly says: "Having had the opportunity to produce work from some of the incredible directors on the Park Pictures roster, I am beyond excited to head up the Amsterdam office. I can't wait to see the magic we create together in this next chapter."
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 Launch Introducing Greenroom Content
10 March 2025 Greenroom Films has gone from strength to strength over the past few years, establishing itself as a force to be reckoned with in London, after developing the business from its original Edinburgh base. Now they are introducing Greenroom Content, which will cater to the ever increasing demand for "engaging content for challenging budgets and tight deadlines".
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 Film & TV 'Spilt Milk' and the Irish Kojak.
4 March 2025 MTP director Brian Durnin's feature debut is one of the brownest films DAVID's ever seen, and he means that as a compliment. Set in 1980s Dublin, 'Spilt Milk' is wonderfully evocative of time and place. Mass unemployment and drug abuse brought the city to its knees, but for eleven-year-old Bobby O'Brien (Cillian Sullivan), where there is Kojak, there is life.
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 New Signing A G Rojas enrols at New—Land.
3 March 2025 It's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new—land for A G Rojas as the director signs for commercials and music videos in the UK, the Netherlands, and Scandinavia. Raised in Los Angeles by a Costa Rican painter and a Colombian poet, Rojas possesses an appreciation for beauty, symbolism, and repetition, rivalled only by his admiration for the company that signed him.
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 New Signing Outsider signs Elisabeth Hoff.
3 March 2025 Director and photographer Elisabeth Hoff has signed to Outsider in the UK and the Netherlands as she bids to make her mark in the commercial realm after a run of successful fashion, lingerie, and beauty campaigns. To be honest, clients like Freya, Garnier, and Bluebella are lucky to have worked with Hoff in the first place.
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 New Signing Editor Charles Gamble joins Cabin Europe
28 February 2025 Award-winning Charles Gamble has thrown in his lot with Cabin Europe and the editing company will be hoping his addition with enable them to continue their meteoric rise on this side of the Atlantic. The young editor won a gold award at the actually meaningful Young Arrows, as well as picking up the Best New Editor prize from the Kinsale Shark jury.
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News Bite New Zealand says everyone must go.
27 February 2025 They say any publicity is good publicity. If that's the case, New Zealand will be 'delighted' with the response to its 'Everyone Must Go' campaign, which is meant to attract more Australian tourists. Detractors, meanwhile, say it trivialises record emigration rates and unemployment, or, as one Kiwi politician puts it, "makes New Zealand sound like we're in a clearance bin at a sale".
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News Bite Edward Berger's all booked up.
27 February 2025 Sweetshop's Edward Berger, director of BAFTA magnet 'Conclave', is set to turn the memoir of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, the first American journalist jailed in Russia since the Cold War, into a film. After the success of 'Conclave' and 'All Quiet on the Western Front', fans have every right to be optimistic about this latest literary adaptation.
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 New Signing Nomad welcomes composer and sound designer Nick Olsouzidis.
27 February 2025 In another life, composer and sound designer Nick Olsouzidis would be a civil engineer. He earned a degree from Coventry University in 2007, then—plot twist— enrolled at the University of York to study music technology. He followed that up with a Master's degree in sound design for film and television, and the rest as they say is history.
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 New Signing Louisa Connolly-Burnham arrives at Mad Cow Films.
25 February 2025 Louisa Connolly-Burnham, director of short films like 'Sister Wives', 'The Call Centre', and 'The Track', believes Mad Cow Films is the absolute best place for her to get stuck into commercials at last. In a career that's taken her fantasy teen drama on CBBC to film festivals around the world, ads were the next logical step for the Solihull-born talent.
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 New Signing Ali Ali signs for Caviar London.
24 February 2025 Caviar London are extremely pleased to have added Ali Ali to their roster of directors in the UK. Head of Sales & EP, Mia Powell leads the cheering celebrations by saying of her new acquisition: "Ali has a guttural instinct when it comes to performance, some may describe his sense of humour as a little disturbed, which is why I’m even more obsessed."
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 New Signing It's Aerin Moreno for Biscuit Filmworks.
24 February 2025 Biscuit Filmworks has completed the signing of director Aerin Moreno, whose credits include 'Spinnin' for Madison Beer and 'Exes' for Tate McRae, to its roster in the United States. Like most of her contemporaries, UCLA graduate Moreno shot and edited her early work single-handedly, making films that captured the American zeitgeist.
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News Bite Technicolor Creative Studios shuts down The Mill and MPC in the US.
24 February 2025 According to reports over the weekend, the US offices of The Mill, MPC Advertising and Mikros Animation have been shut down by parent company Technicolor Creative Studios. The news was reportedly revealed in a company-wide memo to American employees, and represents a hefty blow for the biggest legacy brand in the VFX world. It is not yet known what the implications are, if any, for the European operation, but concerns are likely to be raised.
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News Bite Stitch promote Chris Wilson to full place on edit roster
20 February 2025 Christ Wilson, who joined Stitch in 2017, has been promoted to the role of editor after a number of years as an assistant editor, and he says he's "incredibly excited to step up". MD Angela Hart is also pleased, saying: "We’ve seen Chris grow into a brilliant and versatile editor with an innate sense of storytelling. His work on both music videos and commercials has been exceptional, and we’re incredibly excited to have him move into this new role at Stitch. We can’t wait to see where his talent takes him."
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 New Signing Reynold Gresset's back at Revolver.
20 February 2025 French director Reynald Gresset is back on the books at Revolver Films, and he's keen to pick up where he left off in the Canadian market. "We've done some great jobs for Ikea and President's Choice, we've shared great human moments, full of memories... in life you always have to give priority to human relationships and that chemistry that can't be explained.
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 New Signing FRIEND signs Gabriel Novis.
20 February 2025 Brazilian director and cinematographer Gabriel Novis, whose credits include work for Adidas, Oakley, and Corona Extra, has signed to the good ship Friend for representation on these shores. Novis made waves in 2021 with a sumptuous profile of surfer Ítalo Ferreira for Oakley, who loved what Novis came back with from Baía Formosa ("Beautiful Bay") in north-east Brazil.
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 New Signing Colourist Ana Escorse signs to OkayStudio.
20 February 2025 Brazilian-born, Canada-based colourist Ana Escorse is ready to work with talented directors, cinematographers, and craftspeople in the UK and Europe through OkayStudio. Known for her technical skill and artistic sensibility, she wants to share her love of colour—sparked by her exposure to Baroque art as a child—with clients on the same nuanced wavelength.
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 New Signing Michael Holyk arrives at KODE.
19 February 2025 Nottingham's own Michael Holyk is now on the books at KODE, where he aims to deliver more of the insightful commercials and thoughtful music videos that pepper his reel. The director caught the music bug as an eighteen-year-old when he worked at BBC Radio 1 and Radio 1Xtra, but it all clicked into place when he crossed paths with another up-and-comer.
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 New Signing Studio RM welcomes colourist Jack McGinity.
18 February 2025 Studio RM's bid to make 2025 a year to remember has led to the arrival of colourist Jack McGinity. The company wants to offer brands and agencies an even greater level of creative excellence across film, print, and digital media, so it helps to have a thoroughbred talent like McGinity arrive after stints at Harbor Picture Company, Cheat, Time Based Arts, and Rushes.
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