ARRI Rental, a leading provider of camera, grip and lighting equipment to the feature film, television, advertising, broadcast and events markets, announced that Sean Strong has joined the camera rental department in New York. In his position as camera rental coordinator he will be responsible for coordinating equipment orders between the rental office and operations department while maintaining strong client relations.
Strong’s extensive experience spans more than 25 years in the industry. He comes from Panavision New York where he managed the camera rental department as prep service manager for the last 11 years. He started his career in 1991 as a prep tech at Camera Service Center in New York (now ARRI Rental) before he became a freelance camera assistant. After nine years in the field he re-joined Camera Service Center as quality control/technical support manager in 2002.
“We are delighted to welcome Sean back to ARRI Rental, where he has rejoined so many friends and colleagues from his previous time with us,” said Simon Broad, president of ARRI Rental in the U.S. “It is a measure of the professional way in which he conducted himself during the intervening period that he has been greeted so warmly and the experience that he has gained will be of immediate benefit not only in New Jersey but throughout the Rental Group.”
Review: Writer-Director Aaron Schimberg’s “A Different Man”
Imagine you could wake up one morning, stand at the mirror, and literally peel off any part of your looks you don't like — with only movie-star beauty remaining.
How would it change your life? How SHOULD it change your life?
That's a question – well, a launching point, really — for Edward, protagonist of Aaron Schimberg's fascinating, genre-bending, undeniably provocative and occasionally frustrating "A Different Man," featuring a stellar trio of Sebastian Stan, Adam Pearson and Renate Reinsve.
The very title is open to multiple interpretations. Who (and what) is "different"? The original Edward, who has neurofibromatosis, a genetic disorder that causes bulging tumors on his face? Or the man he becomes when he's able to slip out of that skin? And is he "different" to others, or to himself?
When we meet Edward, a struggling actor in New York (Stan, in elaborate makeup), he's filming some sort of commercial. We soon learn it's an instructional video on how to behave around colleagues with deformities. But even there, the director stops him, offering changes. "Wouldn't want to scare anyone," he says.
On Edward's way home on the subway, people stare. Back at his small apartment building, he meets a young woman in the hallway, in the midst of moving to the flat next door. She winces visibly when she first sees him, as virtually everyone does.
But later, Ingrid (Reinsve) tries to make it up to him, coming over to chat. She is charming and forthright, and tells Edward she's a budding playwright.
Edward goes for a medical checkup and learns that one of his tumors is slowly progressing over the eye. But he's also told of an experimental trial he could join. With the possibility — maybe — of a cure.
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