Moves this week at Godman, Outsider, Park Village, Curious and Perception
London production company Godman have signed directing duo HAM for commercials. The pair were formerly creatives who worked at Grey and CDP Travissully, before moving on to establish agency Fold 7, where they did award winning print work for Diesel. They went on to sign for Addiction, where they worked on a variety of different projects including idents for the National Lottery, a music commercial for Will Young and a viral for chatroom Cycosmos. The pair recently completed a six-part campaign for the Discovery Channel.
Outsider has signed Dutch director Bart Timmer. Timmer, who is represented by Czar on the continent and in the USA. Among others Timmer has shot for Amstel, Cup-a-Soup and the Dutch Lotto.
London production company Park Village has signed two new directors, James Rogan and Aasaf Ainapore. The very precocious James Rogan started his film career at the tender age of fourteen working as a cameraman on the Channel 4/Children's Film Unit's production, Willie's War, moving on thereafter to features (his first of which premiered at Cannes in 2000) and a short. He is currently working on a Honda spot for Wieden + Kennedy. Aasaf joins from Great Guns and has recently finished a new campaign for JWT, having shot for COI, Clearasil and Conquer, and is also working on a collaboration with composer Nitin Sawhney - a biopic of the legendary 60's Sri Lankan motorcycle racer Fricky Khan.
Television comedy director Kenan Moran has signed with Curious Pictures for exclusive commercials representation. He recently directed a seven-spot Comedy Central image campaign through the company on a freelance basis. Moran was most recently with Public Domain, but before that worked in MTV's on-air promo department.
Design and post boutique Perception has taken on Curt Neumann as art director. Neumann joins Perception after having worked with the company as a freelance designer for the past year on projects for Bravo!, AMC, ABC Sports and ESPN.
