Cutter Productions, a NYC-based house headed by founder/executive producer Hillary E. Cutter, has signed director Jim Fabio who’s been a director for NFL Network and NFL.com since 2008, chronicling the pro football season from training camp through Super Bowl for the Emmy-award winning series, The NFL Season. He also won the Sports Emmy for Outstanding Short Feature for NFL’s Immaculate Remembrance in 2013. Additional directorial credits span such clients as Bloomberg and the University of Notre Dame. His series of live-action documentary segments on social issues, produced in collaboration with PBS, Lookalike Productions, and Sesame Workshop for When Families Grieve, earned him a Primetime Emmy nomination for Children’s programming, a Voice Award and three Cine Golden Eagle awards….Experiential agency Fake Love has added NYC and Dubai-based Kamil Tyebally as global brand engagement lead. His experience ranges from Bollywood to police work and most recently a position at Le Book. Tyebally has found creative opportunities with companies like Nike, Virgin America, Mercedes-Benz, Burton, and Droga5. He will be in charge of expanding Fake Love’s global footprint using his experience and cultural sensibilities. Fake Love’s addition of Tyebally signifies its continued development, particularly in the thriving Middle East market. Fake Love has worked on campaigns for clients such as Google, M∙A∙C Cosmetics, Samsung, Vice, Nike, Heineken, Def Jam, Volvo, Lexus, Marc Jacobs, Shen Wei Dance Arts, British Airways, Microsoft, Acura, U.S. Air Force, Coke, Levis, Universal, and Spin Magazine…Culver City-based VFX house Zoic Studios has added veteran Flame artist Toby Brockhurst. He has contributed to effects-driven spots for major brands such as Kia, Guinness, Volvo, EA Sports and BMW, and worked for shops including MPC, Framestore, The Mill, and most recently Method Studios. He has also amplified the visuals on music videos for the likes of Tori Amos, Air, Annie Lennox, George Michael, Jamiroquai and Missy Elliot, and feature films such as Transformers 3D, Pearl Harbor, Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, Harry Potter and The Big Lebowski. Brockhurst has collaborated with such notable directors as Dante Ariola, Tarsem, and Johan Renck….
Review: Director Naoko Yamada’s “The Colors Within”
Kids movies so often bear little of the actual lived-in experience of growing up, but Naoko Yamada's luminous anime "The Colors Within" gently reverberates with the doubts and yearnings of young life.
Totsuko (voiced by Suzukawa Sayu) is a student at an all-girls Catholic boarding school. In the movie's opening, she explains how she experiences colors differently. She feels colors more than sees them, like an aura she senses from another person. "When I see a pretty color, my heart quickens," she says.
Totsuko, an exuberant, uncensored soul, has the tendency to blurt things out before she quite intends to. She accidentally tells a nun that her color is beautiful. In the midst of a dodgeball game, she's transfixed by the purple and yellow blur of a volleyball hurtling toward her — so much so that she's happily dazed when it smacks her in the head.
Like Totsuko, "The Colors Within" (in theaters Friday) wears its heart on its sleeve. Painted with a light, watercolor-y brush, the movie is softly impressionistic. In one typically poetic touch, a slinky brush stroke shapes the contours of a hillside horizon. That evocative sensibility connects with the movie's spiritual underpinnings. Totsuko prays "to have the serenity to accept the things she can't change." In "The Colors Within," a trio of young loners bond over what makes them uniquely themselves, while finding the courage to change, together.
The ball that knocks down Totsuko is thrown by a classmate named Kimi (Akari Takaishi), who not long after that gym class drops out of school — hounded, we're told, by rumors of a boyfriend. (Boys are off-limits for the boarding school.) Totsuko, curious what's happened to Kimi, sets out to find her, and eventually does. At a local used... Read More