Feature filmmaker Peter Sollett, who’s gained acclaim for his Raising Victor Vargas, is coming aboard bicoastal Moxie Pictures for exclusive representation as a spot director….Good Films, New York, has signed director Paul Riccio. He had been with Czar Films, New York….Production house veteran Bob Ramos has been named VP/executive producer of Rhinoceros Editorial, New York. Ramos most recently served as exec producer at production house SFI, Long Island City, N.Y. He is best known for his long tenure at the since closed OneSuch Films, where he was president/co-founder….Director/designer Michel Suissa and his New York company Parallax One have linked with Washington Square Films, New York. As part of the strategic alliance, Washington Square will exclusively rep Suissa as a director, and also provide support for design and image-driven projects taken on by Parallax One….Joshua Touber recently resigned from his position as Santa Monica-based COO of Ascent Media Creative Services. He intends to focus his attention on expanding Virtuosity, a Los Angeles-based company that he co-founded with Ascent Media Creative Services chairman Larry Chernoff in the mid-1990s. Virtuosity provides virtual assistants like Wildfire, a speech-activated tool that performs the basic functions of a personal assistant or secretary. Touber also reported that he is in the early stages of launching a company that will focus on consulting and on R&D projects….Los Angeles-based Colibri Films has signed director Andy Fogwill, who’s best known for his work in the Hispanic market….Director Daniel Gruener, who had been working through Mia Films’ Mexico City office, has signed with Mia Films, Miami Beach, for U.S. spot representation….Andy McKenna has joined digital visual effects studio Radium, Santa Monica and San Francisco, as senior compositor. He comes over from GMD, Sydney, where he was a visual effects designer/compositor. While there, he worked on such films as Rabbit Proof Fence, The Quiet American and The Lord of The Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring….Colorist Scott Klein has joined R!OT Santa Monica….The One Club has named Mini USA and Nike as advertisers of the year. Special One Show Pencils will be presented to Mini USA at The One Show and to Nike at The One Show Interactive Awards….
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