Afterhrs., the recently launched L.A.-based content studio under the aegis of producer Thelonious Brooks and director Kai Regan, has secured DeVine Reps to handle representation on both coasts for advertising and branded content projects. Regan was a founding partner of Alldayeveryday and has directed projects for many brands and agencies; Brooks was sr. producer for Gloria Content and EP of his service company, Behemoth Production. He has also been a line producer for such directors as Jeremy Saulnier, Diego Luna and Rodrigo Valdes. Over the years, Brooks and Regan found a calling in the curation of artist development; inclusive and diverse storytelling talent. Among the many artists with whom Afterhrs. is collaborating with on a nonexclusive basis (affording the studio with the flexibility to match the right storyteller to select narrative projects) are Sunbeam (aka Dean Fleischer-Camp and Nick Paley, whose upcoming live action and animated film Marcel the Shell with Shoes On is being released via A24), writer/director Maegan Houang (Three Busy Debras), writer/director Harry Israelson, photographer, curator and filmmaker Manon Macasaet, Australian documentary and spot director Selina Miles, photographer Jason Al Taan, directors Petra Collins, Hans Emanuel and Nick Cammilieri….
Sideshow and Janus Films have acquired North American rights for Jerzy Skolimowski’s EO, a vision of modern Europe as seen through the eyes of a donkey, which has been one of the most discussed films of this year’s Cannes Film Festival, where it premiered in competition and won the Jury Prize. EO is presented by Skopia Film and Jeremy Thomas and stars Sandra Drzymalska, Lorenzo Zurzolo, Mateusz Kosciukiewicz and Isabelle Huppert. It was produced and the screenplay written by Ewa Piaskowska and Skolimowski. Eileen Tasca is co-producer. Jeremy Thomas is EP. Sideshow and Janus Films are planning a fall 2022 theatrical release….
