Director Wrye Martin has joined the roster of Mirror Films. A key creative talent behind Butterfinger 13th, launched on Facebook last week to more than one million Facebook fans, Martin directed the short in collaboration with actor/director Rob Lowe and Threshold Interactive's John Montgomery. Martin's commercial helming credits include such clients as ESPN, Nikon, Disney, Target and Microsoft….Director Michael Downing has joined Partners Film for Canadian representation. Downing continues to be repped by Epoch Films in the U.S. and Independent in London. Previous to joining Partners, Downing was represented in Canada by Suneeva. Downing broke onto the commercial film scene in 2004 with his “Boardroom” spot for Science World via Rethink that earned him two Gold Pencils at the 2005 One Show and a Bronze Lion at Cannes. In 2005, his U.S. Spot “Skydiver” for Bud Light, via DDB Chicago, ranked number one on USA Today's Big Game Ad Meter for the 2005 Super Bowl. Since then he has gone on to direct notable work for Stride, Orbitz, Honda, Toyota, Wendy's, Burger King, Comcast and HBO, among others….Publicis New York has brought Jeremy Holden on board to serve as chief strategy officer, a new position at the agency, effective Nov. 7. Holden was most recently partner/exec VP/director of account planning at McKinney in Durham, N.C., until late last year, when he left to write his first book, Culture Shifts, which examines historical, political, cultural and commercial movements, and will be published by Prometheus books in fall 2012….Longtime Sonic Union, New York staffer Justine Cortale has been promoted to studio manager and has been named an associate director of the company…Pomann Sound, NY, has promoted engineer Josh Moyer to executive producer….
Oscar Nominees Delve Into The Art Of Editing At ACE Session
You couldn’t miss Sean Baker at this past Sunday’s Oscar ceremony where he won for Best Picture, Directing, Original Screenplay and Editing on the strength of Anora. However, earlier that weekend he was in transit from the Cesar Awards in Paris and thus couldn’t attend the American Cinema Editors (ACE) 25th annual panel of Academy Award-nominated film editors held at the Regal LA Live Auditorium on Saturday (3/1) in Los Angeles. While the eventual Oscar winner in the editing category was missed by those who turned out for the ACE “Invisible Art, Visible Artists” session, three of Baker’s fellow nominees were on hand--Dávid Jancsó, HSE for The Brutalist; Nick Emerson for Conclave; and Myron Kerstein, ACE for Wicked. Additionally, Juliette Welfling, who couldn’t appear in person due to the Cesar Awards, was present via an earlier recorded video interview to discuss her work on Emilia Pérez. The interview was conducted by ACE president and editor Sabrina Plisco, ACE who also moderated the live panel discussion. Kerstein said that he was the beneficiary of brilliant and generous collaborators, citing, among others, director Jon M. Chu, cinematographer Alice Brooks, and visual effects supervisor Pablo Helman. The editor added it always helps to have stellar acting performances, noting that hearing Cynthia Erivo, for example, sing live was a revelation. Kerstein recalled meeting Chu some eight years ago on a “blind Skype date” and it was an instant “bromance”--which began on Crazy Rich Asians, and then continued on such projects as the streaming series Home Before Dark and the feature In The Heights. Kerstein observed that Chu is expert in providing collaborators with... Read More