Noted still fashion photographer Elaine Constantine has come aboard bicoastal Moxie Pictures for U.S. spot representation. She is no stranger to the ad arena, having helmed commercials for the Japanese and U.K. markets. At press time, she was slated to embark on her first American spot, a Moxie-produced job for Tillamook Cheese out of agency Four Stories, Portland, Ore…. Acterna Corp., the publicly traded Germantown, Md.-headquartered holding company for such entities as da Vinci Systems, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York. The company reported that it is preparing a reorganization plan with certain key lenders. Da Vinci Systems, headquartered in Coral Springs, Fla., is the manufacturer of the popular da Vinci color correction systems used in many commercial postproduction houses in the U.S. and abroad. A da Vinci spokesperson said that the company is operating business as usual with no impact on customers….Chris Graves has been named executive creative director at Team One Advertising, El Segundo, Calif. He is slated to start there on June 15 and will fill the position vacated by Tom Cordner, who exited the agency in January. Graves comes over from TBWA/Chiat/Day, Los Angeles, where he made his mark as a creative director for the Nissan and Infiniti accounts….Mike Pethel, co-president of Company 3, Santa Monica and New York, has signed a long-term renewal of his contract with the boutique, part of the Ascent Media Group family of companies….Richard Andrews has been named president of Technicolor Creative Services (TCS), which offers postproduction, sound and distribution services, with offices in New York, Montreal, London, Rome, Singapore, Hollywood, Burbank and Glendale, Calif. Most recently, Andrews served as president of TCS’ Distribution Services division, which he joined nearly a year-and-a-half ago when Glendale-based Vid-film was acquired by Technicolor. Andrews had spent the prior 25 years of his career at Vid-film; his last role there was president….FilmCore, San Francisco, has added editor Tim Fender, who had been with Bob ‘n’ Sheila’s Edit World, San Francisco….Treehouse Animation, New York, has expanded its staff by three. Julie Shevach, formerly of Black Logic, New York, joins as producer; Karl Turkel, who was a senior art director at J. Walter Thompson, New York, will serve as director; and Antoine Veliz comes aboard as designer….
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