A substitution and an addition mark the field of directors reported on last week (SHOOT, 11/7, p. 1) as participating in this year’s series of "Dreams" short films, presented by Sony and Young & Rubicam, New York. Tim Godsall of Biscuit Filmworks, Los Angeles, replaces Biscuit founding partner, director Noam Murro, who had to bow out after garnering his first feature film, The Ring 2. Meanwhile, director Jonathan Darby, who recently joined bicoastal Original Film, has been added to the "Dreams" lineup, which now consists of 10 directors, each set to create and helm a short captured on a Sony 24p HD camera….Director Frank Todaro has agreed to come aboard bicoastal Moxie Pictures for exclusive worldwide representation. He will be wrapping his project commitments with his longtime roost, bicoastal/international @radical.media, through the end of the year. Todaro will be reunited at Moxie with its partner/executive producer Robert Fernandez, who came over from @radical earlier this year….Director Chris Robinson has joined bicoastal HSI Productions for commercials and music videos. He was previously with bicoastal/international Partizan….Director Michele Civetta, formerly of bicoastal HKM Productions, has joined Los Angeles-headquartered RAW/ Progressive Films.…Crossroads Films, bicoastal and Chicago, has signed director Andrew Mudge, who earlier this year was the winner of the second annual Chrysler Million Dollar Film Festival on the strength of his branded short, P.T. Johansen Field Guide….Piyush Pandey, group president and national creative director of Ogilvy & Mather, Mumbai, India, has been appointed jury president of the 2004 Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival’s Film and Press & Outdoor juries. Additionally, Robert M. Greenberg, chairman and chief creative officer of R/GA, New York, has been named Cannes Cyber Lions jury president….Francesca Cohn has been named director of strategic development for Santa Monica-headquartered Ascent Media Creative Services Group. She formerly served as VP, interactive/direct/broadcast at Team One Advertising, El Segundo, Calif., and prior to that was a senior producer at Chiat/Day (now TBWA/ Chiat/Day), Los Angeles.…Bicoastal The Joneses has signed director Gil Cope and the helming team The Goetz Brothers…. All Day Buffet, the year-old New York-based production boutique launched by executive producer Ronan Nagle, director Ben Starkman and editor JJ Lask, has signed comedy director Abe Spear….Audio mixer Loren Silber is leaving POP Sound. He is partnering in a new audio shop, Lime, Santa Monica, with mixer Mark Meyuhaus and business manager/producer Bruce Horwitz….Suzanne Wladar has joined Slingshot Edit and Post, New York, as executive producer. She was formerly executive producer at wild(child) editorial, New York….Partner/executive producer Frank Nitty, partner/producer Jimmy Douglass and creative director Cheroki Pigram have opened The Camp, an urban music production company for advertising and industrials in New York….Jenny Gadd, formerly a senior producer at Fallon’s New York office, has joined bicoastal/international Believe Media as exec producer of its New York office….
Lol Crawley Wins British Society of Cinematographers’ Feature Film Award For “The Brutalist”
For his work on The Brutalist, Lol Crawley, BSC has earned Best Cinematography in a Feature Film at the 69th British Society of Cinematographers Awards on Saturday evening (2/1). The awards ceremony at the Royal Lancaster Hotel was emceed by Edith Bowman and drew some 450 attendees.
This marked Crawley’s first BSC Award win--for his first career nomination.
In the Television Drama (UK Terrestrial) category, Jody Lee Lipes, ASC won for his work on the BBC drama The Listeners. Lipes was the winner in 2023 (for an episode of Dead Ringers) and becomes the first cinematographer to win back to back awards in the Television category. In the Television Drama (International/Streaming) category, Benedict Spence, BSC won his first award for his photography of the Netflix miniseries Eric.
In the newly launched Cinematography In A Music Video category, Daniel Landin BSC was named the winner for his work on the FKA twigs music video “Eusexua.”
The Operators Award, presented by the British Society of Cinematographers (BSC), Association of Camera Operators (ACO) and Guild of British Camera Technicians (GBCT),named Karsten Bloch Jacobsen, DFF and Simon Finney, ACO Assoc BSC the winners for their operating on the film Wicked and in the Television category Chris Plevin ACO Assoc BSC, Robert Patzelt and Michael Ole Nielson were victorious for their work on the HBO show True Detective: Night Country.
As for the competition’s two Short Film categories, Edward Hamilton-Stubber took Best Student Short Film for his National Film and Television School graduation film, Tapeworm. In the BSC Club category Jon Muschamp was victorious for his short film Bookyville.
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