Tag: Focus

  • Focus bags creative duties for Nomarks

    MUMBAI: Focus Circle, the creative and advertising arm of Focus, has bagged the packaging design and creative duties for the entire product range of Nomarks owned by Ozone Ayurvedics.

    Focus Circle won the business following a multi-agency pitch. The incumbent agency on the account is RK Swamy.

    Focus Circle national creative director Rahool Talukdar said, “In this highly competitive segment, it‘s important that a brand is able to connect with its target audience and evoke a conversation. This will lead to high brand recall and build brand preference. Today, the packaging design speaks just as much as the creative dialogue and it is great to have the opportunity to work on both aspects of this brand.”

    The task entrusted to Focus Circle includes building brand awareness and preference for the Nomarks brand in the highly competitive and fast-growing skin care segment in India.

    Talukdar said, “Working with Nomarks across their entire product line will be an exciting mandate as each specific product will need to project its own individual identity and create its own mind space, while ensuring it stays within the brand approach of the Nomarks brand.”

    Ozone Ayuvedics chairman and managing director S C Sehgal said, “We have been aggressively introducing the market with a range of products across age groups and skin types, making it imperative for us to associate with an agency who understands and connects with the respective target group. We are excited to partner with Focus Circle and looking forward to their work for us to be able to create a distinct identity for our various products keeping in mind the essence of the NOMARKS brand overall.”

  • Finolex Cables enters digital space with Focus

    MUMBAI: Integrated communication agency Focus has been roped as Finolex Cables‘ digital media partner.

    Focus has been handling Finolex‘s creative, strategy and media planning services for the past seven years.

    Trinetra Focus Communication (the digital arm of focus) vice president Harsh Wardhan Dave said, “We are glad to be extending our digital offerings for Finolex Cables. Having realised that electrical cable as a category is a difficult one to communicate, our team has put in great efforts towards effective messaging and strategy to create a strong base for a non-core brand like this. A research insight on the target audience affirmed our belief that it was the right time for Finolex to get into the digital marketing space. Through this mandate, we wish to bridge the gap and build sustainable engagements with the core audience.”

    Over the years, Focus has created numerous TVCs, print ads and a large support of in-store activities. This is the first time that Finolex is venturing into the digital media space. The key mandate for its agency would be to concentrate on building the brand awareness along with regular engagement with the target communities.

    Focus, established in 1997, develops integrated strategies aimed at providing business solutions to its clients. Together with Focus Media 360 degrees (Media), Trinetra Focus Communications (Digital) and Focus Circle (Creative and Advertising) forms an integrated media agency that truly believes in building brands holistically from inside out.

  • Third Eye Asian Film fest in Mumbaiin Nov-Dec

    Third Eye Asian Film fest in Mumbaiin Nov-Dec

    MUMBAI: The 10th edition of the Third Eye Asian Film Festival will take place in Mumbai from 22 to 29 December.

    According to the festival‘s director Sudhir Nandgaonkar, over 400 entries have been received from different Asian countries including Iran, China, Japan, Israel, Philippines and Indonesia.

    Out of these, 100 feature films and 50 short films will be shown during the week-long festival.

    Films will be screened under various sections like Spectrum Asia, First/Second Film Competition, Short Film Competition, Focus on one Asian country and Retrospective.

    While Ravindra Natya Mandir at Prabhadevi will be the main venue for the festival, the selected films would also be shown in Thane.

    The P.L. Deshpande Maharashtra Kala Academy has joined hands with Asian Film Foundation to host the festival this year.

  • Positiv TV plans to launch national news channel ‘Focus’

    MUMBAI: Guwahati-based media company Positiv TV is planning to launch a bi-lingual national news channel ‘Focus.’ The target date is 26 January, 2008.

    “We will launch the news channel after the initial dry run. We are aiming at a 26 January launch if there are no procedural delays,” says Positiv TV promoter Manoranjana Sinh.

    With bureaus spread across the country, Focus’ head office will be in located in Noida.

    Positiv TV currently operates a bi-lingual news channel in North-East ‘NE TV’, a bi-lingual entertainment channel NE ‘Hi-Fi’ and a Bengali infotainment channel NE Bangla in West Bengal.

    Sinh says NE Bangla will be re-launched as a news channel on 2 December. NE Bangla operates out of Kolkata. Headed by Ramesh Gandhi, NE Bangla gets its content from Rainbow Productions. Earlier Rainbow Productions provided content to ATN news and DD.

    As reported earlier by Indiantelevision.com, Positiv TV will be also launching two news channels for Jharkhand and Hyderabad.

    The company will first launch Hamar TV in Jharkhand followed by HY TV in Hyderabad.

    North East Multimedia, the radio venture of the company, operates three FM stations in Guwahati, Shillong and Agartala. By the year end, it will roll out the fourth station in Itanagar to complete launching all stations of which it has obtained license.

  • Focus Features to distribute Iraq doc globally

    Focus Features to distribute Iraq doc globally

    MUMBAI: Focus Features has acquired the worldwide rights to Patricia Foulkrod’s documentary feature The Ground Truth: After the Killing Ends.

    The film tells the stories of a half-dozen Americans – men and women who heeded the call for military service in Iraq — as it charts recruitment and training, combat, homecoming, and the struggle to
    reintegrate with families and communities. The conflict in Iraq is a prelude for the even more challenging battles fought by the soldiers returning home — with personal demons, an uncomprehending public, and an indifferent government.

    As these battles take shape, each soldier becomes a new kind of hero, bearing witness and giving support to other veterans, and learning to fearlessly wield the most powerful weapon of all — the truth.

    Focus Features president James Schamus said, “Patricia has made a searing film, one with exclusive footage that will stun audiences. These soldiers are patriotic Americans articulating stories that must be heard, and we think filmgoers around the world are ready to watch and listen.”

    Foulkrod said, “This film has been made from the soldiers’ point of view, and it captures their shattered lives and broken hearts. My intent was to give them a voice, and to inspire viewers to reach out to all soldiers and their families.”

    Focus Features made the most critically acclaimed film of last year Brokeback Mountain.