Director Gavin Bowden has come aboard Los Angeles-headquartered A Band Apart for spot and music video representation….Crossroads Films, bicoastal and Chicago, has signed directors Andy Margetson and Julia Jason….CreoCollective, Santa Monica, has opened an office in London with Sean Feeney as executive producer….Berwyn Editorial, New York, has added Fran Gullo to its editorial roster….Zero 2 Sixty, New York, and Comotion Films, Atlanta, have entered into a joint marketing and production partnership. Additionally, director Mark Claywell has been signed by both companies for exclusive commercial representation. Zero 2 Sixty will represent Comotion directors—John Davis, Stephen Moe and Keith Adams—in the Northeast and Central regions, while Comotion will rep Zero’s Robert Mowen, Reginald Hudlin and Andras Mahr in the Southeast and Southwest areas….Fallon has announced the opening of Fallon Tokyo, which will be led by Tamio Koshino, president/chief creative officer, and Mitsuru Kubota, executive VP/managing partner, along with Phil Rubel, managing director. The agency also has offices in Minneapolis, New York, London, Singapore, Hong Kong and São Paulo….Composer Stuart Matthewman, a founding member of Sade and Sweetback, has signed with bicoastal Agent Jackson for spotwork….Mike Levesque Sr. and Mike Levesque Jr. have formed a partnership with Earth2mars, New York, creating audio post shop Nomad Post@Earth2mars…. Match Frame, a postproduction facility with offices in San Antonio and Austin, Texas, has signed Marcel Rodriguez as a creative editor for commercials. Rodriguez has worked in the documentary arena for the past eight years, and has contributed, in various capacities, to the feature films of his brother Robert Rodriguez, who’s repped for commercials via Los Angeles-based A Band Apart. 35mm….
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