Saville Productions has signed directorial duo Salazar–consisting of Nathan Drillot and Jeff Petry–for representation in North America. Known for its documentary and commercialmaking, Salazar often focuses on extraordinary individuals and how they fit within their communities. The directing team has worked with world-renowned kinetic artist Theo Jansen on the beaches of The Hague, traveled with IO Tillet Wright across the Deep South to shoot over 1500 portraits of LGBTQ Americans, and have told the story of Osunaarashi, the only Muslim professional sumo wrestler in Tokyo.
Salazar has collaborated on global campaigns for Sony Films, Vice, Red Bull Media House, Aritzia, Tides Canada, and The Trevor Project, earning over 11 Vimeo Staff Picks and recognition from leading arts and culture publications along the way, including National Geographic, IndieWire, Ted, Pitchfork, The Creators Project, and Awardeo. Salazar’s documentary work with Warner Brothers recording artists Tegan and Sara earned Grammy and Juno nominations.
Prior to joining Saville, Salazar had been repped by Workhouse Creative.
Salazar recently completed its documentary Wizard Mode, about the reigning world champion of pinball who also happens to have autism. It is the first Vimeo Original feature film, and premiered at Hot Docs. The trailer has received over 4.5 million views. Salazar’s upcoming project, Handsome and Majestic, is a short documentary about a young trans boy growing up in a remote community in Canada. The film has already received several awards on the festival circuit. It will be released online later this month.
Google Opens Its Defense In Antitrust Case Alleging Monopoly Over Online Ad Technology
Google opened its defense against allegations that it holds an illegal monopoly on online advertising technology Friday with witness testimony saying the industry is vastly more complex and competitive than portrayed by the federal government.
"The industry has been exceptionally fluid over the last 18 years," said Scott Sheffer, a vice president for global partnerships at Google, the company's first witness at its antitrust trial in federal court in Alexandria.
The Justice Department and a coalition of states contend that Google built and maintained an illegal monopoly over the technology that facilitates the buying and selling of online ads seen by consumers.
Google counters that the government's case improperly focuses on a narrow type of online ads — essentially the rectangular ones that appear on the top and on the right-hand side of a webpage. In its opening statement, Google's lawyers said the Supreme Court has warned judges against taking action when dealing with rapidly emerging technology like what Sheffer described because of the risk of error or unintended consequences.
Google says defining the market so narrowly ignores the competition it faces from social media companies, Amazon, streaming TV providers and others who offer advertisers the means to reach online consumers.
Justice Department lawyers called witnesses to testify for two weeks before resting their case Friday afternoon, detailing the ways that automated ad exchanges conduct auctions in a matter of milliseconds to determine which ads are placed in front of which consumers and how much they cost.
The department contends the auctions are finessed in subtle ways that benefit Google to the exclusion of would-be competitors and in ways that prevent... Read More