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    2018 Production Outlook Survey — Michelle Eskin

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    2) 2018 will be a year that continues to break down barriers. Not a year of separated genders, but a year of inclusivity where equal opportunities are open to all genders and races. A year of action, not just words. We all have an opportunity to make a lasting change in the world. I am hoping this is the year that everyone chooses to speak up and be a powerful force of change.

    5) Diversity has been part of Cut+Run’s life-blood since we began, both in terms of gender and ethnicity. We have female, male, and ethnically diverse owners, editorial and VFX talent, and staff. This year we will look for opportunities to push the bar further. We have joined Free The Bid, which champions female talent and is opening up equal opportunities for this incredible talent base. One of the powerful ways our industry can support change is to dedicate time, energy and resources to underrepresented stories and initiatives for change. We are actively looking for projects that will amplify messages and a voice for change. To proudly stand up for our beliefs, and take action.
     

    Michelle Eskin
    managing partner
    Cut+Run

    Martin Scorsese On “The Saints,” Faith In Filmmaking and His Next Film

    Thursday, November 14, 2024

    When Martin Scorsese was a child growing up in New York's Little Italy, he would gaze up at the figures he saw around St. Patrick's Old Cathedral.

    "Who are these people? What is a saint?" Scorsese recalls. "The minute I walk out the door of the cathedral and I don't see any saints. I saw people trying to behave well within a world that was very primal and oppressed by organized crime. As a child, you wonder about the saints: Are they human?"

    For decades, Scorsese has pondered a project dedicated to the saints. Now, he's finally realized it in "Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints," an eight-part docudrama series debuting Sunday on Fox Nation, the streaming service from Fox News Media.

    The one-hour episodes, written by Kent Jones and directed by Elizabeth Chomko, each chronicle a saint: Joan of Arc, Francis of Assisi, John the Baptist, Thomas Becket, Mary Magdalene, Moses the Black, Sebastian and Maximillian Kolbe. Joan of Arc kicks off the series on Sunday, with three weekly installments to follow; the last four will stream closer to Easter next year.

    In naturalistic reenactments followed by brief Scorsese-led discussions with experts, "The Saints" emphasizes that, yes, the saints were very human. They were flawed, imperfect people, which, to Scorsese, only heightens their great sacrifices and gestures of compassion. The Polish priest Kolbe, for example, helped spread antisemitism before, during WWII, sheltering Jews and, ultimately, volunteering to die in the place of a man who had been condemned at Auschwitz.

    Scorsese, who turns 82 on Sunday, recently met for an interview not long after returning from a trip to his grandfather's hometown in Sicily. He was made an honorary citizen and the experience was still lingering in his... Read More

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