Boxer Films has signed Italian director Igor Borghi for U.S. commercial representation. He is currently also repped by Mercurio Film, Milan, for clients and agencies in Italy; Madrid-based Brownie for Spain; Magali, Paris, for the French market; and Cream, Munich, for Germany.
His European credits include spots for Yamaha, UBI Bank and La Cucina Italiana. For the latter, he won Best European Branded Short Film at the 2010 Young Directors Awards, rising his stock further as a sought after filmmaker in Italy after just a couple of years.
Borghi has more Yamaha commercials scheduled to release later this fall and is currently developing several feature projects.
Borghi grew up in Bologne, Italy where he started filmmaking as a teenager. After a stint at the Italian National Film School in Rome, he went on to A.D., serving in what amounted to a directing apprenticeship for some of the country’s leading feature film directors, including Marco Tullio Giordana, while also writing and making short films of his own. Borghi’s first attempt at spotmaking came when a friend asked him to direct a commercial for a wedding planning company. The spot was so well received that he was contacted by production companies throughout Europe.
Alec Baldwin Urges Judge To Stand By Dismissal Of Involuntary Manslaughter Case In “Rust” Shooting
Alec Baldwin urged a New Mexico judge on Friday to stand by her decision to skuttle his trial and dismiss an involuntary manslaughter charge against the actor in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer on the set of a Western movie.
State District Court Judge Mary Marlowe Sommer dismissed the case against Baldwin halfway through a trial in July based on the withholding of evidence by police and prosecutors from the defense in the 2021 shooting of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the film "Rust."
The charge against Baldwin was dismissed with prejudice, meaning it can't be revived once any appeals of the decision are exhausted.
Special prosecutor Kari Morrissey recently asked the judge to reconsider, arguing that there were insufficient facts and that Baldwin's due process rights had not been violated.
Baldwin, the lead actor and co-producer on "Rust," was pointing a gun at cinematographer Halyna Hutchins during a rehearsal when it went off, killing her and wounding director Joel Souza. Baldwin has said he pulled back the hammer — but not the trigger — and the revolver fired.
The case-ending evidence was ammunition that was brought into the sheriff's office in March by a man who said it could be related to Hutchins' killing. Prosecutors said they deemed the ammunition unrelated and unimportant, while Baldwin's lawyers alleged that they "buried" it and filed a successful motion to dismiss the case.
In her decision to dismiss the Baldwin case, Marlowe Sommer described "egregious discovery violations constituting misconduct" by law enforcement and prosecutors, as well as false testimony about physical evidence by a witness during the trial.
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