Knucklehead will represent Anonymous Content for commercials in the U.K., Amsterdam and Ireland. The directors represented are Mark Romanek, Alejandro Gonzáles Iñárritu, Armando Bo, Andrew Douglas, Brett Morgen, Daniel Benmayor, Joe Kosinski, Will Gluck, Awesome & Modest, David Kellogg, David Slade and Jeff Blitz. Knucklehead has hired Stevie Holliday to represent the Anonymous Content lineup for the aforementioned markets. Her recent experience includes posts as head of new business at Believe Media, creative manager at 19 Entertainment and directors rep for Biscuit @ Independent…..Limey, the production house headed by executive producer/owner Andrew Denyer, has secured representation in the Canadian market via Toronto-based shop Frank Content. Frank will introduce Limey directors Nick Jones, Graeme Joyce and KN+SAW to agencies in Canada….Lost Highway Films has brought Brandon Rosenberg on board for in-house representation. Formerly a freelance producer, Rosenberg brings to his new roost experience spanning advertising, TV, film, new media and reality TV….Man Made Music has hired Natalia Romiszewski as director of business development and music strategy. Prior to joining Man Made, Romiszewski created Sound Language, a consulting company which worked on projects ranging from music coordination for films, styling runway shows at New York Fashion Week, sound-scaping high profile events and music supervising commercials and video games such as MLB 2K. Previously Romiszewski worked with will.i.am Global and The Black Eyed Peas assisting in business development, partnership, production and strategic marketing initiatives…Dattner Dispoto and Associates (DDA) has signed DPs Autumn Durald, Frederik Jacobi, Frank Perl and James Wall, and production designers Gabriel Abraham and Hannah Beachler….
Martin Scorsese On “The Saints,” Faith In Filmmaking and His Next Movie
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 mind. Remarks have... Read More