
Stink Studios is appointing Beats by Dre global marketer Marlina Fletcher to head up its Los Angeles office as managing director. At Beats, Fletcher led global digital communications and brand for the past four years. She oversaw the creation of Beats Pill+ and work such as the 2014 World Cup campaign “The Game before the Game.” She joined Beats from Nike where she led campaigns like “Nike Sportswear’s The Chance,” a competition to enlist creative reporters from around the world to document the brand’s quest to find the top amateur soccer players. Prior to Nike, she was at Fader, producing events for Levi’s and Converse. Stink is also hiring Pek Yee Lai, general manager at Same Same But Different, the luxury social and digital arm of Dentsu, as managing director of its recently-opened Stink Studios Shanghai. Prior to Dentsu, she was account lead on the Coca-Cola business at Ogilvy & Mather Shanghai.
Station Film is adding Henry/Ssong, the directing duo Henry Chen and Ssong Yang, to its roster for North American representation. The filmmakers were behind Google’s “Saroo Brierley: Homeward Bound” ad, which won a Cannes Young Directors Award in 2014, as well as commercials and content for brands including Honda, American Express, Delta, Elevit, Microsoft and Telenor. Both aged 32, they initially began collaborating while attending Rhode Island School of Design’s film/animation/video program, then teamed up professionally in 2012. In addition to commercials, Chen is developing his first feature, a biopic about a U.S. civil rights figure, while Yang is writing a feature and short film about community support and mental health.
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