By Christine Champagne
While creating a new Holiday Inn spot slated to air on Nickelodeon, the creatives at Fallon, Minneapolis, chose to construct a fairy tale of sorts that would appeal to both the cable network’s primary audience of children, as well as grown-ups (it is estimated that 25 percent of Nickelodeon’s viewers are adults). The result is a charmingly unique :60 called "The Noses," which faithfully follows the typical fairy tale formula—sharing a tragic story, introducing a catalyst and wrapping up with the requisite happy ending.
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CLIENT
Holiday Inn.
PRODUCTION CO.
Biscuit Filmworks, Los Angeles.
Noam Murro, director; Tim Maurice-Jones, DP; Jiri Ostry, first assistant director; Shawn Lacy Tessaro, executive producer; Holly Vega, head of production; Jay Veal, producer. Shot at Studio 10, Komorany, Czech Republic, and on location in Prague.
Stillking Films, Prague.
Zuzana de Pagter, producer; Andrea Havlickova, production manager.
AGENCY
Fallon, Minneapolis.
Bruce Bildstein, creative director; Todd Riddle, creative group head/art director; Reuben Hower, copywriter; Brian DiLorenzo, director of broacast production; Kate Talbott and Robert van de Weteringe Buys, executive producers; Nicholas Gaul, associate producer.
EDITORIAL
The Whitehouse, Santa Monica.
Rick Lawley, editor; Louise Crane, assistant editor; Sue Dawson, executive producer; Joni Wright, associate producer.
POST/VISUAL EFFECTS
Sea Level, Venice, Calif.
Brian Buongiorno, visual effects/Inferno artist; Amy Russo, producer.
Company 3, Santa Monica.
Stefan Sonnenfeld, colorist; Missy Papageorge, producer.
Stardust, bicoastal.
Jake Banks, creative director; Jason Doherty, art director; Matthew Marquis, executive producer; Dan Sormani, producer.
AUDIO POST
Lime Studios, Santa Monica.
Rohan Young, mixer.
MUSIC
Human, New York.
Andy Bloch, Gareth Williams, Morgan Visconti, Lindsay Jehan, Sloan Alexander and Gordon Minette, composers; Marc Altschuler, executive producer.
SOUND DESIGN
Noises Digital, Berkeley, Calif.
Kim Christensen, sound designer.
8 Aspiring DPs Receive Emerging Cinematographer Awards
The International Cinematographers Guild (ICG, IATSE Local 600) presented eight aspiring DPs with 2024 Emerging Cinematographer Awards (ECA) during a ceremony, screening and reception held on Sunday (9/29) in the Television Academy’s Wolf Theatre at the Saban Media Center in North Hollywood.
Also during the ECA proceedings, Rodrigo Prieto, ASC, AMC accepted the Distinguished Filmmaker Award. Prieto is a four-time Best Cinematography Oscar nominee--for Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain, and Martin Scorsese’s Silence, The Irishman and Killers of the Flower Moon.
In his opening awards ceremony remarks, Stephen Poster, ASC--who co-chairs the Guild’s ECA committee with Jimmy Matlosz--estimated that over the 26 years of the ECA, more than 200 up-and-coming lensers have garnered invaluable exposure and recognition early on in their careers. Submissions are open to Local 600 members who are not yet classified as DPs, and a panel of established ICG members from across the country assess the short film entries. The competition has intensified over the past two-plus decades. This year’s eight honorees and their short films were selected from 118 submissions.
The class of 2024 ECA honorees are:
–Dominic Bartolone for the short film Sweet Santa Barbara Brown
–Adam Carboni, INCOMPLETE
–Matthew Halla, The Unreachable Star
–Jessica Hershatter, Pirandello on Broadway
–Allen Ho, Iron Lung
–Nick Mahar, Sands of Fate
–Dylan Trivette, Bearing Witness: A Name & A Voice
–Andrew Trost, Bloom
These emerging cinematographers benefited from more than just the Sunday showcase in North... Read More