Little Minx, a shop in the bicoastal/international RSA family, has signed director Stephanie Green for U.S. and U.K. representation. She had been with bicoastal/international MJZ. A couple of years ago, Green was honored at Young Guns and the Saatchi New Director Showcase at Cannes….Emoto, Santa Monica, has added the British electronic duo Goldfrapp–which consists of Alison Goldfrapp and Will Gregory–to its roster of featured artists for original music creation for advertising, TV and film….Hest & Kramer Music has named director of marketing Christy Van House and Jim Weber, who assumes the role of executive creative director, as partners in the company, which now becomes Hest, Kramer, Van House and Weber and has opened a studio in Venice, Calif….Visual effects supervisor has joined Zoic Studios, which has shops in Los Angeles and Vancouver, B.C.
“Atropia” and “Twinless” Win Marquee Prizes At Sundance Film Festival
The war satire โAtropia,โ about actors in a military role-playing facility, won the grand jury prize in the Sundance Film Festivalโs U.S. dramatic competition, while the Dylan OโBrien movie โTwinlessโ 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 โSeeds,โ about farmers in rural Georgia and โCutting Through the Rocks,โ about the first elected councilwoman in an Iranian village. The Indian drama โSabar Bonda (Cactus Pears),โ about a city dweller mourning his father in the western Indian countryside, won the top prize in the world cinema competition.
โItโs for my dad,โ 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 Sweeneyโs โTwinless,โ about the bromance between two men who meet in a twin bereavement support group, triumphed in the U.S. dramatic category. OโBrien also won a special jury award for his acting.
The U.S. documentary audience award went to โAndrรฉ is an Idiot,โ a life-affirming film about dying of colon cancer. Other audience picks were โPrime Minister,โ about former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, and โDJ Ahmet,โ 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, โ2000 Meters to Andriivka,โ a joint production between the AP and PBS Frontline.
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