Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner Peter Richardson, who recently made his TV directing debut on Oprah Winfrey’s OWN network with the seven-part documentary series Belief that explores faith around the world, has connected with Hollywood-based Sticks+Stones Studios for commercials and branded content. Richardson first made a splash with his stirring, emotional 2011 documentary about the terminally ill called How to Die in Oregon, which garnered the Documentary Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. Along with his foray into more commercial work and film, Richardson is directing an upcoming series for Showtime, which will debut in the first quarter of 2016….
Venice Beach, Calif.-based creative VFX studio Siren Lab Productions recently launched on the heels of a five-month collaboration with director Cary Joji Fukunaga (True Detective) on his critically acclaimed Netflix original film, Beasts of No Nation. Siren Lab, led by veteran VFX supervisor/Flame artist Karen Heston, collaborated with Fukunaga by overseeing and producing the majority of the VFX shots used in Beasts of No Nation. Upcoming for Siren Lab are commercial projects for Infiniti and Tom Ford. During her decade-plus career, Heston, has worked on a variety of notable commercial and music video projects at established VFX companies including Framestore, MassMarket, Rhino FX, Charlex, and for major brands such as Google, Kohl’s, Macy’s Visa, GE, AT&T, and L’Oreal….
