Seed Media Arts, headed by exec producer/founder Roy Skillicorn, has secured Perry Schaffer and Corey Rogers of independent rep firm Schaffer/Rogers to handle the East Coast, and indie rep Mark Andrews to cover the West Coast….
New York-based animation boutique Ace & Son Moving Picture Co., LLC, has inked Ilene Silberman of Silberman Productions for East Coast representation and Yvette Represents’ Yvette Lubinsky to handle the West Coast….
Revolabs, a provider of audio solutions for unified communications (UC), enterprise collaboration, and professional audio applications, has appointed Jim Fairweather to executive VP of global sales. Fairweather will be responsible for the worldwide management and recruitment of the sales organization as well as the growth and profitability of the entire portfolio of Revolabs products. Having worked in the high technology industry for over 30 years, Fairweather brings an intimate knowledge of UC to Revolabs. Previously he served as VP of worldwide sales for Hewlett Packard Visual Collaboration Business Unit; and VP, Americas and U.S. sales at Polycom, PictureTel, and MCI WorldCom, and most recently VP of worldwide channel sales for Vidyo….
From Restoring To Hopefully Preserving Multi-Camera Categories At The Emmys
When Gary Baum, ASC won his fourth career Emmy Award earlier this month, it was especially gratifying in that the honor came in a category--Outstanding Cinematography for a Multi-Camera Half-Hour Series--that had been restored thanks in part to a grass-roots initiative among cinematographers to drum up entries. Last year the category fell by the wayside when not enough multi-camera entries materialized.
In his acceptance speech, Baum appealed to the Television Academy to keep multi-camera categories alive. He later noted to SHOOT that editors also got their multi-camera recognition back in the Emmy competition this year. Baum hopes that after resurrecting multi-camera categories in 2024, such recognition will be preserved for 2025 and beyond.
A major factor in the decline of multi-camera submissions in 2023 was the move of certain children’s and family programming from the primetime Emmy competition to the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences’ (NATAS) Emmy ceremony. For DPs this meant that multi-camera programs last year were reduced to vying for just one primetime nomination slot in the more general Outstanding Cinematography for a Series (Half-Hour) category. It turned out that this single slot was filled in ‘23 by a Baum-lensed episode of How I Met Your Father (Hulu).
Fast forward to this year’s competition and Baum won for another installment of How I Met Your Father--”Okay Fine, It’s A Hurricane,” which turned out to be the series finale. Two of Baum’s Emmy wins over the years have been for How I Met Your Father, and there’s a certain symmetry to them. His initial win for How I Met Your Father was for the pilot in 2022. So he won Emmys for the very first and last... Read More