Thor, who is represented in the U.S. by www.madheart.com.>Madheart, has directed a new spot for Czech car maker Škoda and Leagas Delaney, Hamburg, in which a couple goes on a fantastic drive through an urban jungle. The spot, produced by Germany’s TempoMedia with production support in Madrid from The Mamma Team, shows the couple behind the wheel of a Yeti on a city street. When the woman presses the car’s off-road button, the environment around them is magically transformed with a waterfall cascading down the side of a building, tropical birds filling the air and ghostly elephants blocking a street. Another touch of the button makes the wild apparitions disappear.nnThe spot features a highly unusual and difficult to pull of blend of live action and 3D projections. For Thor, the compressed shooting scheduled was challenging due to the number of plates that needed to be shot for visual effects purposes. The production was further complicated by the arrival of a violent storm, but Thor took it all in stride. “We were running two units, one for principal photography and one for the car shots,” he recalls. “I was setting up shots on the fly while running between the two units and dealing with small issues like the windows of our camera car fogging up in the pouring rain.”nnVisual effects for the tour-de-force piece were performed by London’s Absolute.nn
nnwww.madheart.com.>Madheart is based in Los Angeles. For further information, call 213.995.4555 or visit www.madheart.com. The company is represented on the West Coast by Lisa Gimenez Toliver (lisa@lisareps.com), Catherine DeAngelis (Hot Betty) in the Midwest (cat@hot-betty.com) and Dana Dubay on the East Coast (dana@dubay.tv). nnCreditsnTitle: ProjectionsnProduct: ŠkodanAgency: Leagas Delaney, Hamburg. Hermann Waterkamp, executive creative director; Patrick Plogstedt, producer; Florian Schimmer and Michael Götz, creative directors. nProduction: TempoMedia, FrankfurtnDirector: Thor nDirector of photography: Baldur EythorssonnPost: Absolute, London.Lisa Phillips www.madheart.com.>Madheart Executive Producer 213 995 4555 Contact Lisa via email
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“Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution” Nominated For Outstanding Documentary at 36th Annual GLAAD Media Awards
On January 22, 2025, GLAAD announced the nominees for the 36th Annual GLAAD Media Awards, and many of this year’s nominees center diverse and compelling stories about transgender and nonbinary people. Nominated for Outstanding Documentary is Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution – a feature-length documentary that counts Katherine LeBlond of Union Editorial as a producer. LeBlond and Union Partner/Editor James Haygood serve as Co-Executive Producers. Union’s Rodrigo Brazão edited the film, and Union also brought Post Supervisor Veronica ‘V$’ Garcia, Consulting Producer Kaitlin McLaughlin, and Assistant Editor Dion Riley to the project. “To be nominated for a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution is an immense honor,” said LeBlond. “This recognition is a testament to the power of LGBTQ+ voices in comedy and the importance of amplifying those stories. I am incredibly grateful to the GLAAD organization for this acknowledgment.” In Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution, the legacy of LGBTQ comedians is examined, including out trans comedians such as Suzy Izzard and Roz Hernandez. The film had its world premiere on Netflix on June 18, 2024. Written and directed by Page Hurwitz, this is the first feature length documentary to examine the history of queer stand-up comedy. The documentary considers the importance of LGBTQ+ stand up as an instrument for... Read More