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    Framestore Hires Live Action EPs Siegel, Duffin

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    NEW YORK --

    Oscar-winning visual effects and creative content studio Framestore has hired two executive producers of live action: Jennifer Siegel who will work out of the company’s NY shop, and John Duffin, based in the L.A. office.

    Siegel and Duffin will be responsible for overseeing live action and design. Their scope will also allow them to provide valuable input on various projects within Framestore’s Virtual Reality Studio, which opened earlier this year. The studio has recently produced massively popular and diverse Oculus Rift experiences for HBO’s Game of Thrones and Marriott Hotels in partnership with experiential agency Relevent, and for Christopher Nolan’s upcoming film Interstellar.

    Jon Collins, Framestore’s president of Integrated Advertising Worldwide, said, “We’re constantly being approached with extraordinary opportunities that are allowing us to push our limits, enter the game earlier in the creative process, and play with our capabilities across different disciplines. These all-in projects have become the norm here at Framestore, and hiring Jennifer and John to grow and spearhead our Live Action department from both coasts was an essential move to address these unique briefs.”

    Siegel joins Framestore with over 20 years in TV commercial production and has been responsible for all facets of managing production companies. She was most recently executive producer at Shilo TV, where her position spanned oversight of live action, visual effects, animation, CG, design, post and editorial. Prior to that, she was EP at Tool of North America, where she held various positions since 1997.

    Duffin comes to Framestore from Epoch Films, where he served as EP. He began at the company in 1997 to help launch its Los Angeles office.

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    Jules Feiffer, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Cartoonist and Writer, Dies At 95

    Tuesday, January 21, 2025

    Jules Feiffer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and writer whose prolific output ranged from a long-running comic strip to plays, screenplays and children's books, died Friday. He was 95 and, true to his seemingly tireless form, published his last book just four months ago.

    Feiffer's wife, writer JZ Holden, said Tuesday that he died of congestive heart failure at their home in Richfield Springs, New York, and was surrounded by friends, the couple's two cats and his recent artwork.

    Holden said her husband had been ill for a couple of years, "but he was sharp and strong up until the very end. And funny."

    Artistically limber, Feiffer hopscotched among numerous forms of expression, chronicling the curiosity of childhood, urban angst and other societal currents. To each he brought a sharp wit and acute observations of the personal and political relations that defined his readers' lives.

    As Feiffer explained to the Chicago Tribune in 2002, his work dealt with "communication and the breakdown thereof, between men and women, parents and children, a government and its citizens, and the individual not dealing so well with authority."

    Feiffer won the United States' most prominent awards in journalism and filmmaking, taking home a 1986 Pulitzer Prize for his cartoons and "Munro," an animated short film he wrote, won a 1961 Academy Award. The Library of Congress held a retrospective of his work in 1996.

    "My goal is to make people think, to make them feel and, along the way, to make them smile if not laugh," Feiffer told the South Florida Sun Sentinel in 1998. "Humor seems to me one of the best ways of espousing ideas. It gets people to listen with their guard down."

    Feiffer was born on Jan. 26, 1929, in the Bronx. From... Read More

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