Global social media agency We Are Social has appointed Jerome Courtial as head of strategy.
Courtial was previously lead global planner at Wieden & Kennedy Amsterdam, working as a global planning director on Coca-Cola and Nokia. Before this, he was engagement planner at BBH London.
More recently, he worked as strategy director at Saint and a freelance planning director for agencies R/GA and Sid Lee Amsterdam. He was also instrumental in the success of Glue London between 2003 and 2006, leading accounts and winning pitches for numerous clients including Nokia, Eurostar and Snickers.
The Tribeca Film Festival (TFF), presented by American Express, today announced its feature film selections in the Spotlight and Midnight sections, projects in the new Storyscapes section and Special Screenings. The 12th edition of the Festival will take place from April 17 to April 28 in New York City.
The Spotlight section features 33 films — 21 narratives and 12 documentaries — that blur the lines of independent and mainstream filmmaking. Twenty-three films in the selection will have their world premieres at the Festival, a record number for the section. The Midnight section – formerly known as Cinemania – will open with Dark Touch and offers an international menagerie of seven raucous and rousing new horror titles. Special screenings this year include the reintroduction of the Restored/Rediscovered program with Charles Lane’s Sidewalk Stories and a special screening of Alberi by Michaelangelo Frammartino at VW Dome at MoMA PS1 Performance Dome, among other selections.
“McConkey” features as Tribeca’s ‘Spotlight’ selection – which offers World Premieres and advance premieres with bold-faced names, topics of interest from both established and emerging filmmakers.
“McConkey”, directed and written by Steve Winter, Murray Wais, Scott Gaffney, David Zieff, and Rob Bruce, examines the life – posthumous – of one of the first action sports pioneers of the last two decades, Shane McConkey. In this new film Red Bull Media House and Matchstick Productions examine the life of a professional athlete who legitimized and pioneered freestyle snow skiing and ski BASE jumping, laying the path for the future of action sports stars to rise – and inspiring everyone from Tony Hawk and Travis Pastrana along the way. Proceeds from the film will go to a trust set up for the McConkey family.“The documentary films in the Spotlight section this year highlight several famous individuals (including one very cute cat) who use their wit and bold personas to make us think and laugh,” said Genna Terranova, Director of Programming. “A mix of established filmmakers and rising talent top off the rest of the section with features exploring some fresh takes on unconventional relationships.”
O2 has recruited the multi Brit award winner Emeli Sandé to be the face of its new music app O2 Tracks in a major new £7.3m through-the-line advertising campaign.
O2 Tracks, available now, brings the UK’s Official Singles Chart Top 40 direct to customers’ phones and reaffirms O2’s commitment to bringing a range of music experiences to its customers, following hot on the heels of O2’s Priority Ticketing activity with Michael Bublé and global megastar Beyoncé.
Emeli stars in a new television ad, directed by Ben Newman, which features her finishing a gig and travelling on the Tube to come face to face with a fan listening to her on O2 Tracks. The ad premiered on O2’s Facebook and Twitter channels on Wednesday 6th March, made its TV debut during Wednesday’s episode of ITV1’s new drama ‘Lightfield’ and can be viewed now at http://o2lin.kr/O2TracksAd.
The fifth Nectar Business Small Business Awards launches today, led by leading business woman and star of BBC 1’s The Apprentice, Karren Brady. These awards – which are free to enter – celebrate the achievements of successful small businesses and business people across the UK.
The Nectar Business Small Business Awards are judged by a panel of respected industry figures including Karren Brady, Nectar Marketing Director James Frost, David Hughes, Marketing Director, Brakes and 2012 winner and MD of Luxury For Less, Chris Li. As well as receiving £2,000 cash and 50,000 Nectar points, entrants are also competing for the unique opportunity of meeting and receiving tailored expert advice from Karren Brady and other industry experts at the Nectar Business Round Table event – to be held later in the year.
Open between 11 March 2013 and 30 April 2013, the awards, which now include the Tradesperson of the Year and the Start Up of the Year categories, celebrate and acknowledge the outstanding achievements of small businesses in the UK. All SMEs, social enterprises, charities and entrepreneurs that demonstrate innovative and sustainable business ideas are invited to enter as many categories as are relevant to their business:
o Small Business of the Year
o Start Up of the Year (Under one year trading)
o Innovation of the Year
o Contribution to the Community
o Entrepreneur of the Year
o Tradesperson of the Year