Editor Peter Brandt has joined Work’s roster across all three offices in UK, NY and LA for commercials and music videos. Brandt continues to work across Scandinavia out of his own Copenhagen-based company, Little Machine, successfully balancing 20 years of advertising with film and television work.
Brandt’s commercials collaborations include work with director Martin de Thurah and WCRS for British Arrows & D&AD winner BUPA's 'For Owning The Dancefloor," Martin Werner’s DnB comedy classic starring George Clooney, and Interflora 's 'Give Love A Helping Hand' as well as Ronaldo vs Pele in Adam Hashemi’s Emirates "All Time Greats." Andreas Nilsson’s multi award winning Volvo "Epic Split feat. Van Damme" garnered 6 Grand Prix internationally for Forsman & Bodenfors.
“I wanted to work with Peter the moment I saw his work" said Work founder/partner Jane Dilworth. "It’s still incredibly special to see work that has been so well crafted. He has a natural ability for storytelling and conveying emotional nuances. And once we met, it was even clearer his sensibility was so in tune with all of the Work editors. A really open person, he’s one of us.”
Having started out editing commercials and music videos in Denmark, it was acceptance into The National Danish Film School in 2003 that really opened up a series of narrative features. His first collaboration with director Christoffer Boe on psychological thriller Reconstruction was rewarded with the Camera d’Or at Cannes Film Festival, Best Editor at The Robert Awards and The Young Cinema Award at Venice Film Festival. Subsequent productions included the BAFTA-winning Danish political drama Borgen in 2010 (director Søren Kragh-Jacobsen), Cannes Critics Week-nominated When Animals Dream in 2014 (director Jonas Arnby) and The Robert Award for Best Children's Film Antboy (director Ask Hasselbalch). Brandt was also nominated for Best Editing at 2016 Robert Awards for 9 April, a Danish Second World War film by Roni Ezra.
Brandt says: "The variety of commercials and feature length work drives me. The end goal is always the same, to find the structure. But to distil an entire story to 60 seconds and on the other hand hold that one emotional beat throughout exercises all my muscles. So Work Editorial is perfect in terms of size and approach, with an intrinsic understanding of these kind of choices editors make in their career."
Rom-Com Mainstay Hugh Grant Shifts To The Dark Side and He’s Never Been Happier
After some difficulties connecting to a Zoom, Hugh Grant eventually opts to just phone instead.
"Sorry about that," he apologizes. "Tech hell." Grant is no lover of technology. Smart phones, for example, he calls the "devil's tinderbox."
"I think they're killing us. I hate them," he says. "I go on long holidays from them, three or four days at at time. Marvelous."
Hell, and our proximity to it, is a not unrelated topic to Grant's new film, "Heretic." In it, two young Mormon missionaries (Chloe East, Sophie Thatcher) come knocking on a door they'll soon regret visiting. They're welcomed in by Mr. Reed (Grant), an initially charming man who tests their faith in theological debate, and then, in much worse things.
After decades in romantic comedies, Grant has spent the last few years playing narcissists, weirdos and murders, often to the greatest acclaim of his career. But in "Heretic," a horror thriller from A24, Grant's turn to the dark side reaches a new extreme. The actor who once charmingly stammered in "Four Weddings and a Funeral" and who danced to the Pointer Sisters in "Love Actually" is now doing heinous things to young people in a basement.
"It was a challenge," Grant says. "I think human beings need challenges. It makes your beer taste better in the evening if you've climbed a mountain. He was just so wonderfully (expletive)-up."
"Heretic," which opens in theaters Friday, is directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, co-writers of "A Quiet Place." In Grant's hands, Mr. Reed is a divinely good baddie — a scholarly creep whose wry monologues pull from a wide range of references, including, fittingly, Radiohead's "Creep."
In an interview, Grant spoke about these and other facets of his character, his journey... Read More