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Credited with raising the creative bar for entertainment brands, Cantwell & Co. has launched many award-winning media clients across the U.S., Latin America, Europe and Asia. Led by Executive Creative Director Elaine Cantwell. the company is committed to building solutions that are visually unique and strategically accurate, collaborating with such brands as Crown Media's Hallmark Channel and Hallmark Movies & Mysteries, Showtime, Smithsonian Channel, NBC Universo, FYI, TCM. Commercial work includes spots for Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report, SC Johnson, Proctor & Gamble, and the heralded Target retail store campaign that spotlighted the Target brand in an unprecedented style celebrating pop culture.
As CCO at Broadway Video Cantwell was charged with solidifying the creative voice of the company, across all divisions from Branding & Post Production to Digital Services, Film & Television to Enterprises, bringing consistency internally and externally to the well-established entertainment brand. Prior to her tenure at Broadway Video, Cantwell helmed Houndstooth, a creative agency servicing both brand and content in the entertainment space.
Cantwell also founded the creative group Spark Creative Inc., where she conceptualized and implemented creative strategies through branding, marketing and promotional campaigns for ABC, Televisa, Sony Entertainment Television, Scripps, W Network in Canada, Disney's JETIX, the WB, TNT, A&E, Hallmark Channel and Travel Channel, among others. Her work has garnered multiple international design awards from PROMAX, New York Film Festival, ICAD among others including “Best of Show” from the PROMAX for the Showtime relaunch package and a Sports Emmy nomination from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences for ABC Sports. Prior to Spark, Cantwell spent 7 years as Head of Creative Services for 3 Ring Circus, a Hollywood-based design company after moving from Ireland where she began her career as Art Director with Arks Advertising in Dublin working on the Guinness, Levis, and Barry's Tea accounts.
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