Director Paul Street has linked with bicoastal/international Believe Media for U.S. commercial representation. Street, who has not had a stateside spot roost for the past year-plus, maintains his own company, Streetlight Films, London, and Brisbane, Australia. The director’s prior affiliations include stints at Crossroads Films, bicoastal and Chicago, and Los Angeles-headquartered A Band Apart Commercials. At press time, Street was in New Zealand helming a BMW campaign for Fallon, Minneapolis….Director Tom DeNolf has inked a deal with Shadow Pictures, New York, for spot representation….Smythe & Company, New York, has signed noted Brazilian composer/saxophone and flute player Zé Luis for spotwork….Industry veteran Joshua Touber, who most recently served as COO of Ascent Media Creative Services, is launching Touber Media Consulting, Los Angeles. He also continues as a principal in Los Angeles-based Virtuosity….Director Mike Overbeck has signed with San Francisco-based animation studio Wild Brain….Hal Goodtree has joined New York-headquartered production shop This Is TV as executive producer. Directors Lalli Jonsson, Wayne Maule, Denni Karlsson and Darren Ashton have also come onboard, joining This Is TV owner/director Conrad Fink for spotwork….Harvey Marco has been named creative director of Saatchi & Saatchi LA, Torrance, Calif., where he will work closely with chief creative officer Steve Rabosky. Marco formerly served as a creative director at Fallon, Minneapolis….Atlanta-based Matthew Bunting has been promoted to VP/executive producer of Turner Network Television (TNT) on-air creative. Previously, he was director of entertainment promotion at the TNT marketing division where, most recently, he directed and produced Hard Starter, one of two TNT original "mini dramas"—short branded films that screened in theaters this summer. Bunting was a consultant on the second TNT branded film, The Drop, which was written and directed by Glen Owen of Santa Monica-based Storyville Pictures (SHOOT, 6/20, p. 7)….
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