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Progress Report
While the sample size in some cases is limited, there are signs of advancement for female directors that have emerged in recent months. For one, 9 of... more...


Coming To Terms With VR, AR, MR
The brave new world of Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Mixed Reality has a lexicon all its own. This prompted Jason Peterson, chairman of Go... more...


Short Takes for October 2017
Venice, Calif.-based production company Rodeo Show and director Sarah Chatfield pay homage to the musical romcom La La Land in a rhythmic new spot... more...


NY Attains Post Incentives Milestone
The Governor’s Office of Motion Picture and Television Development (MPTV) has announced a milestone with 400 applications received in the state’s... more...


VFX/Animation News & Developments: Davidson Joins Brickyard VFX
Brickyard VFX Santa Monica has brought Benji Davidson on board as VFX supervisor. Davidson’s world-class creative experience includes live action... more...


Music Notes
News and developments from the worlds of music production, sound design, audio post, music licensing & publishing and music libraries. more...


People on the Move
Executive and staff hires and promotions at ad agencies, production and post-related companies, networks and studios. more...


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Street Talk for October 27, 2017
Bicoastal production and post company Greenpoint Pictures has signed director E.J. McLeavey-Fisher for US representation. He has created documentary... more...


Rep Report for October 27, 2017
The Directors Network , talent agency for freelance directors and DPs, has further fortified its roster, adding director Benzo Theodore and taking on... more...


Flashback for October 2017
A decade since George Lucas said Star Wars was finished on the big screen, a new trilogy under new ownership is destined for theaters after The Walt... more...




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170 Documentary Features Submitted For 2017 Oscar Race


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Writer/Director Romina Schwedler’s Debut Film "The Visit" Wins The U.S. Short Film Award Of Excellence At The Catalina Film Festival


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Welcome to the Special Fall 2017 Edition of SHOOT’s Directors Series. Our mix of profiles includes several filmmakers whose work has entered this season’s Oscar conversation, including Sean Baker for The Florida Project, Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton for Battle of the Sexes, Stephen Frears for Victoria & Abdul, Craig Gillespie for I, Tonya, Todd Haynes for Wonderstruck, Reginald Hudlin for Marshall and Dee Rees for Mudbound. Within this group, there are strong ties to commercialmaking...
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A delicate balance
While the Cliff Notes’ version of writer/producer/director/editor Sean Baker’s filmography often first points to his revolutionary use of the iPhone camera to lens the critically acclaimed feature Tangerine, it’s about time to get past that breakthrough which in the big picture is a novelty compared to the storytelling itself. Tangerine resonated for the empathy it created for otherwise marginalized people in society, at the same time masterfully balancing elements of pathos and comedy. Fast...
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The "Battle" within
Battle of the Sexes (Fox Searchlight) takes us to 1973 when the eighth wonder of the world—believe it or not, that’s what the Houston Astrodome was called—hosted the tennis match of the century, pitting champion Billie Jean King, age 29, against Bobby Riggs, 55, himself a former champ turned rogue hustler/self-promoter who stoked the fires for a big payday in a battle of the sexes tennis match. He upped the ante by adopting a male chauvinist persona, contending that man was superior to woman—...
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The joy and sadness of collaboration
Among the many collaborators who stand out for director Stephen Frears on the recently released Victoria & Abdul (Focus Features) are two he’s had a long, rewarding track record with; however while both have brought him joy, one of them now evokes sadness. The latter is production designer Alan MacDonald who passed away on Aug. 30 at the age of 61. Victoria & Abdul thus marks the final collaboration between Frears and MacDonald. It’s a working relationship that began on the Best Picture...
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A balancing act on ice
On the surface, many may find the prospect of re-living the Tonya Harding story an unappetizing deja vu. The Olympic ice figure skater along with her then husband, Jeff Gillooly, were implicated in a knee-smashing attack on her prime U.S. skating competitor, Nancy Kerrigan, just prior to the 1994 Winter Olympics. The resulting media circus/feeding frenzy came to be regarded in some circles as a precursor to what is now our society’s increased penchant for sensationalized news and reality TV...
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Parallel paths to discovery
Looking to open up a new world via parallel stories set 50 years apart, director Todd Haynes found his own crew members on Wonderstruck (Amazon Studios) personally discovering and being moved by that very same world almost as if life were imitating the art they were trying to create. Nominated for the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, Wonderstruck introduces us to Rose (portrayed by Millicent Simmonds), a deaf girl who in 1927 runs away from home in New Jersey and makes her way to...
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Doing justice to "Marshall"
At first blush it might seem that director Reginald Hudlin was moving out of his comfort zone when taking on a drama, Marshall, that sought to shed light on Thurgood Marshall, the attorney who successfully argued the landmark civil rights case Brown vs. The Board of Education and later became the first African-American Supreme Court Justice. Initially Hudlin came on board the feature Marshall —an Open Road Films release starring Chadwick Boseman in the title role—as a producer, brought into the...
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Emmy win marks diversification into comedy
Miles Jay first graced the pages of SHOOT’s Directors Series in 2013 when he was included in our Up-and-Coming Directors feature largely on the strength of an interactive short film, Carly’s Cafe, that introduced us to Carly Fleishman, a 17 year old who was diagnosed with severe autism at the age of two. She communicated to her family for the first time by typing on a computer at the age of 11. “In Carly’s Voice—Breaking Through Autism,” a book she co-authored with her father, Fleishman offered...
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Love letter/dance video sparks filmmaking career
A love letter to Michel Gondry that went unanswered and the increasingly integral role played by visuals in the success of music proved to be key catalysts prompting Damian Kulash—lead singer, guitarist and founder of rock band OK Go—to extend his creative reach to filmmaking. His diversification into directing has made an indelible mark as the last two years on the awards show circuit attest. Via Park Pictures, Kulash directed Morton Salt’s “The One Moment” which won assorted accolades...
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A full spectrum of collaboration
Director Dee Rees’ Mudbound has put Netflix squarely in this season’s Oscar conversation. Rees also wrote the screenplay—in tandem with producer Virgil Williams, based on the novel by Hillary Jordan. The story centers on two families—one black, the other white—in the rural American South during World War II. The white McAllen family—headed by Henry (Jason Clarke) and his wife Laura (Carey Mulligan)—moves to the Mississippi Delta from Memphis and isn’t fully ready for the harsh demands of...
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Promising talent poised to make mark for many seasons to come
SHOOT’s fall ensemble of up-and-coming directors includes a noted actress who’s making her directorial debut with an upcoming HBO documentary, and a music video/spot/short film helmer who has diversified into longer form via a Netflix TV series he co-created. Also in the mix is a still photographer who has successfully diversified into moving imagery, directing spots, shorts and branded fare on both sides of the Atlantic. Another filmmaker brings agency creative chops and BBC production...
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Reflections from Rachel Morrison, ASC, Tobias Schliessler, ASC, and Xavier Grobet, ASC, AMC
One DP got the chance to shoot for a director she greatly admired and their collaboration has yielded a Netflix feature that is very much in this season’s Oscar conversation. Another cinematographer is in pre-pro on his sixth feature for the same director; their fifth was released this year, a Disney live-action film that sprung from a beloved animation classic back in 1991. And our third DP also enjoyed a recent return engagement with a director who’s additionally known for his writing chops...
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LOS ANGELES -- The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has voted to present a Special Award--an Oscar® statuette--to director Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s virtual reality installation, “CARNE y ARENA (Virtually Present, Physically Invisible),” in recognition of a visionary and powerful experience in storytelling. “The Governors of the Academy are proud to present a special Oscar to ‘CARNE y ARENA,’ in which Alejandro Iñárritu and his cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki have opened...
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BERLIN -- BBDO New York won agency of the year honors while Smuggler earned the production company of the year mantle, and Henry-Alex Rubin was named the year’s best director at the recently wrapped CICLOPE Festival 2017 in Berlin. All three wins were tied in large part to Sandy Hook Promise’s “Evan,” one of three pieces to earn a CICLOPE Grand Prix--directed by Rubin of Smuggler for BBDO NY. The short film is the story of Evan, a teen counting down the days to summer break, who demonstrates his boredom...
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Special industry screening on the Fox lot will be followed by in-person interviews with the filmmaker and his effects colleague who will discuss the film and their working relationship
LOS ANGELES -- The art of collaboration--in this case between a director/writer and a four-time Oscar-winning visual effects supervisor--will be among the topics of discussion during a special event on the evening of Thursday, Nov. 9, on the Fox Studios lot in Los Angeles. It starts with a screening of War for the Planet of the Apes at 7 pm followed by a live in-person interview session with the film’s director/writer Matt Reeves and sr. visual effects supervisor Joe Letteri. By turns, serious war movie and...
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LOS ANGELES -- One hundred seventy features have been submitted for consideration in the Documentary Feature category for the 90th Academy Awards®. The submitted features, listed in alphabetical order, are: “Abacus: Small Enough to Jail” “Aida’s Secrets” “Al Di Qua” “All the Rage” “All These Sleepless Nights” “AlphaGo” “The American Media and the Second Assassination of President John F. Kennedy” “And the Winner Isn’t” “Angels Within” “Architects of Denial” “Arthur Miller: Writer” “Atomic Homefront” “The B-...
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LOS ANGELES -- Filmmaker and hybrid creative talent Jason Zada has joined FANCY Content for commercial representation in the U.S. An award-winning filmmaker whose first feature, the thriller The Forest , debuted last year, Zada is known for his long associations with such prior production company homes as Prettybird and Tool of North America . Most recently he was at Los York. Zada has earned multiple awards over the course of his directing career, including Cannes Lions, a D&AD Pencil, an Emmy and...
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LOS ANGELES -- Stink Films has signed director Will Mayer for global representation. He joins a company directorial roster which includes Eliot Rausch, Nicolas Winding Refn, Nacho Gayan, and Lauren Caris Cohan. Mayer’s background in documentary filmmaking imbues his work with a sense of authenticity and human connection. He shared, “What I aim for above everything is emotion and honesty.” A recent collaboration with Wieden+Kennedy, Portland, Ore., for Samsung tells the story of Russell Westbrook and the...
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SANTA MONICA, Calif. -- Jerk Store, the directing team consisting of Ben Weinberg and Pat Andrews, has joined the roster of Santa Monica-headquartered Tool. The duo had not been handled previously in the U.S. but continues to be repped in Canada by Steam Films. Jerk Store’s first project for Tool is a spot for Mattress Firm with agency Havas that launched earlier this month. Weinberg and Andrews spent a combined 30 plus years as advertising creatives, honing their craft before making the switch to directing and...
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WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. -- Bullitt has added Sasie Sealy and Jonathan Zames to its directorial roster. Both are conversant in long and short form projects, and work at the intersection of advertising and entertainment. This marks Sealy’s first official U.S. representation. Zames had previously been with Big Block. Sealy first made her mark in the commercial world of fashion and beauty with clients such as Maybelline, Tory Burch, Suave, and Sally Hansen, and her work has been featured in Glamour, Refinery29, and Teen...
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VENICE, Calif. -- Production company Slim has secured sports and action director Manes Duerr for commercials and branded content in the U.S. This marks Duerr’s first production company roost in the U.S. He has already wrapped his first project under the Slim banner, a four-spot Fitbit campaign out of Townhouse New York. Duerr is a lover of American sports and is a committed Packers fan. He also played basketball as a small forward for many years. Originally from Vienna, Duerr started his career as an editor...
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LOS ANGELES -- Branded entertainment production company Gloria Content--which maintains bases of operation in Los Angeles and Mexico City--has signed Brazilian-American director Gandja Monteiro for commercials and branded content in the U.S. She joins a directorial roster which includes company co-founder Diego Luna, Jonas Cuaron, Rodrigo Valdez and Rogelio Sikander. Gloria was launched by Luna along with executive producers Pablo Cruz and Eric Bonniot in 2015. A world traveler with a wide breadth of cultural...
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NEW YORK (AP) -- George Clooney's "Suburbicon" notched one of the most dismal wide-release debuts in recent years on a sluggish pre-Halloween weekend where the horror sequel "Jigsaw" topped all releases despite an underperforming debut. The eighth "Saw" film landed at No. 1 with $16.3 million in North American ticket sales, according to studio estimates Sunday. That came in below industry expectations and suggested the revived "Saw" franchise isn't connecting with audiences the way other recent horror entries...
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We’re taken to a business headquartered in a suburban home where a worker is rewarded for doing a stellar job with the proverbial perk of a “corner office.” The only problem is that the corner office in a residence isn’t quite the power space it is in a highrise. Titled “Corner Office,” this spot for FedEx Ground was directed by Randy Krallman of Smuggler for BBDO New York. It’s one of three spots in a package which features fictional micro-businesses and how FedEx Ground helps them.
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Brent Harris of South Africa’s Egg Films directed “For The Love Of Sport,” Sky Sports’ epic new football ad, produced by Jon Ronbeck with Mapi Brambilla and Paolo Zaninello from Akita Film in Italy for agency Grey United in Milan. When Roma’s Alessandro Florenzi goes down injured, the ad captures the way an entire country joins together to get him back in play. Look out for cameos from the likes of Juventus’ Daniele Rugani, AC Milan’s Alessio Romagnoli, Fiorentina’s Federico Chiesa and Italian...
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Last month, Foot Locker and Timberland(R) teamed up with hip-hop legend Nas to launch the 2017 Timberland Legends Collection limited-release series of boots. To promote the collection, agency Pereira & O’Dell NY turned to bicoastal production house Gentleman Scholar to turn out a campaign consisting of colorful animation ads which document pivotal moments in the rapper’s personal journey to artistic expression and success. Directed by Gentleman Scholar's Chace Hartman, William Campbell and...
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Publicis Conseil has created the first global campaign for AXA, showcasing the new brand propositioning: “Empower people to live a better life.” The campaign is inspired by the true story of an AXA client who was trapped and severely injured during the Nepal earthquake in 2015, while on a humanitarian mission. The AXA team on the ground found her, repatriated her and gave her all the medical and psychological help she needed to make a full recovery. Her story is told in the spot “Kathmandu--...
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To promote BMW’s certified pre-owned vehicles and the new unlimited mileage warranty, BMW and creative agency KBS have created a humorous campaign directed by Master of None ’s Eric Wareheim via production house PRETTYBIRD. The premise is that the warranty helps customers feel so good about their decision to buy a used BMW they will “never want to stop driving.” That even applies to this spot titled “Wedding” in which a father brings the bride down the aisle in a pre-owned BMW. The car itself...
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The odds look pretty slim for fending off an alien invasion with UFOs menacingly hovering about, causing individuals to disappear. Two scientists see the handwriting on the wall, figuring they have better odds if they exit the crisis at hand and instead play the New York Lottery’s Take 5 game which gives players a one in nine chance of winning. Tom Kuntz of MJZ directed this comedy spot conceived by McCann New York, for which a fleet of spaceships was created by Eight VFX.
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TOTO USA, the Americas division of the global plumbing manufacturer TOTO Global Group, has teamed up with advertising agency barrettSF to create a new video for its WASHLET, a high-tech bidet seat. Aimed to change America’s approach to bathroom hygiene, its message is simple: you should use water for personal cleansing. “99% of Americans don’t use bidet seats,” commented barrettSF creative director Aryan Aminzadeh, “But once you do, you realize you’ve been performing a daily activity the wrong...
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