Adventure Aquarium of New Jersey challenges kids to find their inner shark with a new spot directed and shot by Protagonist’s James Bartolomeo. Heaps of praise to our stylists for going over budget on hair gel…

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 Purple, an anti-oxidant health drink derived from the Acai berry and sold nationally at GNC stores, has chosen Protagonist Films to produce a 7-spot campaign.  The work comes to us through pals at Stick & Move,  Philadelphia. Shooting will take place this spring in Times Square and Philly. Go Purple!

Couldn’t resist sharing this house of cards.  Thanks to Woody Ranere for the tip…

The gracious star of a new TV campaign for the BSO Holiday Spectacular is Ray Kreuger, Associate Orchestra Librarian responsible, in part, for organizing and annotating the sheet music for each performance.  Protagonist director James Bartolomeo worked with Ray to create a character who is annoyed with costumed spectacles and believes the music should stand for itself. Ray: “What’s festive about indigestion?“ 

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Site editor Nick Parrish describes the films by director James Bartolomeo as “cool and compelling”. The campaign, promoting classical music and the BSO’s new maestra, Marin Alsop to the public, was launched on September 24th as part of the Baltimore Symphony’s new website.

Director James Bartolomeo shoots the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra’s rehearsal under the leadership of Maestra Marin Alsop for the web-based project “Webumentary Film Series with Marin Alsop” now live on the BSO’s new website. Post production was handled by Protagonist as well, with doc editor Geoffrey Richman (Murderball, Sicko) handling the cutting and compression of the 13 short films…

On a recent trip to LA during a rather hot week in August, 13-month old Oliver ran out of clean onesies. The Sofitel staff was accommodating and sent the soiled undershirts to a local laundry. They were returned neatly pressed and on hangers. Guess we should have asked them to hold the starch…

We’d like to thank our friends at IOWA Interactive for a wonderful collaboration. Please check back in the coming weeks for more expansive blogs.