Flame artist Brandon Danowski has joined Freefolk New York. He comes over after four years at The Mill NY where he spearheaded award-winning jobs like the NFL’s 2015 “Super Bowl Babies” commercial. He has worked on brands like Samsung, The New York Times, HBO, Verizon, HBO, Cadillac, Lincoln and TD Ameritrade.
Danowski started out in the industry in 2010 as an intern with Beast, Company 3 and Method in Atlanta. He was hired after this internship and began to focus on finishing and VFX in Flame.
Celia Williams is EP of Freefolk NYC. Established in London in 2003, Freefolk–a full service post and VFX house offering 2D & 3D visual effects, high-end color grading, shoot supervision, animation, design, concept and direction–opened its second studio, in New York in 2016.
From Restoring To Hopefully Preserving Multi-Camera Categories At The Emmys
When Gary Baum, ASC won his fourth career Emmy Award earlier this month, it was especially gratifying in that the honor came in a category--Outstanding Cinematography for a Multi-Camera Half-Hour Series--that had been restored thanks in part to a grass-roots initiative among cinematographers to drum up entries. Last year the category fell by the wayside when not enough multi-camera entries materialized.
In his acceptance speech, Baum appealed to the Television Academy to keep multi-camera categories alive. He later noted to SHOOT that editors also got their multi-camera recognition back in the Emmy competition this year. Baum hopes that after resurrecting multi-camera categories in 2024, such recognition will be preserved for 2025 and beyond.
A major factor in the decline of multi-camera submissions in 2023 was the move of certain children’s and family programming from the primetime Emmy competition to the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences’ (NATAS) Emmy ceremony. For DPs this meant that multi-camera programs last year were reduced to vying for just one primetime nomination slot in the more general Outstanding Cinematography for a Series (Half-Hour) category. It turned out that this single slot was filled in ‘23 by a Baum-lensed episode of How I Met Your Father (Hulu).
Fast forward to this year’s competition and Baum won for another installment of How I Met Your Father--”Okay Fine, It’s A Hurricane,” which turned out to be the series finale. Two of Baum’s Emmy wins over the years have been for How I Met Your Father, and there’s a certain symmetry to them. His initial win for How I Met Your Father was for the pilot in 2022. So he won Emmys for the very first and last... Read More