Directors Billy Kent and Diamantino Ferreira have signed with bicoastal Treat for spotwork….Director Bob Grigg has joined Sherman Oaks, Calif.-based Strom Magallon for exclusive spot representation. Grigg’s last formal company affiliation was Industrial Light+Magic Commercial Productions, which closed earlier this year…..Director Alex Winter and Alex Halpern, president/editor of Post Factory, New York, have launched Hyena Films, New York. While a separate entity from Post Factory, clients working with Hyena will have the option of utilizing the editing company’s facilities….Director Marcus Stokes—who moved up the ranks from technical animator to technical director to lead technical special effects director at Industrial Light+Magic, San Rafael, Calif.—has come aboard Big Trout Pictures, San Francisco, for exclusive representation as a spot director….London-based production company Mustard has signed director Thed Lenssen for U.K. representation….Creative Bubble, New York, is opening an audio post/sound design operation under the moniker Burst @ Creative Bubble. A controlling interest in Burst will be maintained by Creative Bubble. Marcelo Gandola, who has been brought aboard to serve as senior audio engineer, will also receive an equity interest in the shop. The new facility is set to open its doors on Sept. 30….Editor Steve Schreiber has joined Steel Rose Editorial, New York, a company that was co-founded by his son, editor Mitch Schreiber. Steve Schreiber had been freelancing for the past two years at Rhinoceros Editorial, New York….New York-headquartered audio post shop Sound Lounge has added mixers Glen Landrum and Keith Reynaud. The signings come as a component of Sound Lounge’s recently completed expansion—which includes a near doubling of the company’s facility space and the launch of a new radio production division headed by Sound Lounge principal Marshall Grupp, who will also continue as head of Marshall Grupp Sound Design, New York…. Music/sound design company Tonefarmer, New York, has named Tiffany Warin as its president/executive producer….CG supervisor Aladino V. Debert, senior computer artist Mary Beth Haggerty, Inferno artist Scott Rader and CG artist Erik Shepherd have joined digital studio Radium. Haggerty and Shepherd will work out of Radium’s San Francisco Studio, while Debert and Rader will be based at the shop’s Santa Monica quarters…..Director Kim Dempster of Greenwich Pictures, New York, has completed principal photography for her first feature, tentatively titled Marmalade, and is now available for commercials….
London Critics Name “The Brutalist” The Film of the Year
The Brutalist, Brady Corbet’s immigrant saga, won the Film of the Year prize at the 45th London Critics’ Circle Film Awards.
While The Brutalist garnered just one award, it was the marquee honor. Meanwhile Nickel Boys, Conclave and A Real Pain all receivd multiple awards, and Zoe Saldaña was honored twice.
Edward Berger’s Vatican thriller Conclave took two awards for British/Irish Film of the Year and Actor of the Year for Ralph Fiennes, while RaMell Ross’s radical Colson Whitehead adaptation Nickel Boys was recognized with Director of the Year and the Technical Achievement Award for Jomo Fray’s first-person cinematography. Jesse Eisenberg’s dark comedy A Real Pain was the night’s other multiple prizewinner, landing Screenwriter of the Year for the actor-filmmaker, and Supporting Actor of the Year for co-star Kieran Culkin.
Payal Kapadia’s Mumbai-set drama All We Imagine as Light was named Foreign Language Film of the Year, while the Palestinian-Israeli collective behind No Other Land took Documentary of the Year.
Alongside Conclave, British productions awarded by the Circle in the top categories included Mike Leigh’s intimate character study Hard Truths, which took Actress of the Year for Marianne Jean-Baptiste, while Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl was named Animated Feature of the Year. In the British/Irish-specific categories, Saoirse Ronan won British/Irish Performer of the Year for her performances in The Outrun and Blitz, 14-year-old Nykiya Adams won Young British/Irish Performer of the Year for her screen debut in Andrea Arnold’s Bird, and Rich Peppiatt won the... Read More