Bicoastal Spot Welders has added editor Lucas Spaulding to its editorial team.
Spaulding started his career at Hal Riney and Partners (now Publicis & Riney) in San Francisco where he worked in the production department. From there he spent brief stints at Mad River Post (San Francisco) and V2 editing in New York before landing a job at Mackenzie Cutler, New York. Spaulding spent six years at Mackenzie Cutler working for clients such as Fed Ex, Fox Spots and Heineken. At this point, the native Californian decided to move back to the West Coast and came aboard bicoastal Cosmo Street. He then most recently shifted to bicoastal Bug Editorial.
Spaulding explained that it was at Mackenzie Cutler where he spent key years developing his editing craft, and not surprisingly, his career went on a comedic path. “It’s how I grew up,” Spaulding said. “I like to do other things — but I enjoy helping make people laugh.”
Looking back at his work and experiences, the editor said, “I’ve been really lucky to work at good places and with good people.” Among his favorite jobs was Fed Ex’s “Great Idea,” helmed by Frank Todaro (then of bicoastal/international @radical.media, now of bicoastal/international Moxie Pictures) via BBDO New York, which shows a humorous business meeting during which a boss swipes an idea from an employee. Also during that time, Spaulding cut Budget’s “Skating” for Cliff Freeman & Partners, New York–in which decision makers consider having Budget employees move faster by working on roller skates.
Another favorite, from Cosmo Street, is Wrigley’s “No Dummies”, directed by Craig Gillespie of bicoastal/international MJZ for BBDO New York, which features a dummy in a CPR class that comes to life to make off with a student’s Juicy Fruit.
Spaulding feels he has found a great fit at Spot Welders. “I really have a lot of respect for the editors there, I knew [Spot Welders CEO] David Glean, and when I went to the office, it clicked.”
Spaulding joins an editors’ roster that includes Scott Chestnut, Damion Clayton, Ben Darling, Robert Duffy, Dick Gordon, Haines Hall, Jim Haygood and Michael Heldman.
The talent is represented by Resource in the West and Midwest, and New York-based Zeigler Management handles the East Coast.
“Atropia” and “Twinless” Win Marquee Prizes At Sundance Film Festival
The war satire “Atropia,” about actors in a military role-playing facility, won the grand jury prize in the Sundance Film Festival’s U.S. dramatic competition, while the Dylan O’Brien movie “Twinless” got the coveted audience award.
Juries and programmers for the 41st edition of the independent film festival announced the major prizewinners Friday in Park City, Utah.
Other grand jury winners included the documentaries “Seeds,” about farmers in rural Georgia and “Cutting Through the Rocks,” about the first elected councilwoman in an Iranian village. The Indian drama “Sabar Bonda (Cactus Pears),” about a city dweller mourning his father in the western Indian countryside, won the top prize in the world cinema competition.
“It’s for my dad,” said writer and director Rohan Parashuram Kanawade. His late father, he said, was the one who encouraged him to pursue filmmaking.
Audiences also get to vote on their own awards, where James Sweeney’s “Twinless,” about the bromance between two men who meet in a twin bereavement support group, triumphed in the U.S. dramatic category. O’Brien also won a special jury award for his acting.
The U.S. documentary audience award went to “André is an Idiot,” a life-affirming film about dying of colon cancer. Other audience picks were “Prime Minister,” about former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, and “DJ Ahmet,” a coming-of-age film about a 15-year-old boy in North Macedonia.
Mstyslav Chernov, the Oscar-winning Associated Press journalist, won the world cinema documentary directing award for his latest dispatch from Ukraine, “2000 Meters to Andriivka,” a joint production between the AP and PBS Frontline.
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