Robert Fernandez is coming aboard bicoastal Moxie Pictures as partner/executive producer. Fernandez, who’s enjoyed a long tenure at bicoastal/international @radical.media, will succeed Gary Rose. A month and a half ago, Rose exited Moxie to become an executive producer/partner at bicoastal Go Film (SHOOT, 3/7, p. 1)….Public Domain, the bicoastal production house headed by executive producer Steve Shore, has entered into a strategic affiliation with Czar Films, the European shop headquartered in Amsterdam. Per the deal, Public Domain will provide U.S. representation for Czar’s directors, while Czar will handle Public Domain’s helmers in the European spot market….Will Vinton, founder/ chairman of Vinton Studios, Portland, Ore., was laid off last week from the company that bears his name. The move came just days after he resigned from the studio’s board of directors. Vinton and several others were let go as part of a corporate restructuring; however, the exact reasons behind the end of Vinton’s 27-year tenure at the company weren’t clear at press time….Director Stephen Kessler has come aboard Venice, Calif.-based Trio Films.….Industry vets Michael Raimondi, Werner Mayes and Ron Moler have launched Union Editorial. The Santa Monica shop’s roster includes editors Nico Alba, Einar, Jay Friedkin and Ira Klein. Additionally Rye Dahlman is cutting projects under the Union banner….Editor Mike Douglas has joined ChicKönKey, New York. He comes over from MacKenzie Cutler, New York….New York-based Cine/drsa international has signed UK director/still photographer Harry Rankin for commercials….Kyle Cooper, a co-founder in bicoastal design company Imaginary Forces, is departing the shop to pursue live-action work and feature films, as well as projects for the film and commercial industries….Executive producer Justin Corsbie has launched Synthetic Pictures. The Austin, Texas-headquartered production shop opens with directors Richard Kooris, Robert Strack, Gary Perweiler, Rich Carroll, Ken Lewin, Joe Piccirillo, Walter Pawluk, Eric Pham and Dennis Fagan on its roster….Culver City, Calif.-based barton: holt has signed songwriter/record producer Mike "Smidi" Smith for spot work….Jason Menkes has joined Sacred Noise, New York, as producer. Menkes was most recently executive producer at the New York office of bicoastal tomandandy….Jonathan Airale has been promoted to dailies colorist at Bobine Video, the Santa Monica-based telecine boutique owned by colorist Jais Thierry Lamaire and producer Julie Airale. Jonathan Airale had been Lamaire’s assistant for the past six-plus years…Steve Solomon, a co-founder of the New York Production Alliance (NYPA), has joined the organization’s executive committee. Solomon, who is a principal in New York law firm Hutton & Solomon, replaced Marva Topham, who has retired….
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