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    ICG Names 10 Honorees For Emerging Cinematographer Awards

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    LOS ANGELES --

    The International Cinematographers Guild  (ICG, IATSE Local 600) has named 10 honorees for the 2019 Annual Emerging Cinematographer Awards (ECA), spotlighting promising cinematographers and providing crucial exposure needed to succeed in the motion picture industry. The collection of 10 selected short films will be showcased at the ECA premier event in Los Angeles on October 6, 2019, at the Saban Media Center’s Wolf Theatre. Additionally, screenings will follow in New York at the SVA Theatre on October 27, 2019, Atlanta at SCADshow on November 3, 2019, and Chicago at the Logan Theatre on November 3, 2019.
     
    The honorees, who have been selected from 108 submissions, are:

    • Daniel Bombell, Present Day, Athens (1st Assistant)
    • Tinx Chan, Empty Skies (Operator)
    • Marcos Durian, Fish Head (2nd Assistant)
    • Chad Erickson, Eddy (Operator)
    • Geoff George, My Blood (Operator)
    • Shannon Madden, Scratch (Operator)
    • Bongani Mlambo, The Coin (1st Assistant)
    • Jared Moossy, A Lucky Man (Operator)
    • Claudio Rietti, Kid Boxer (Operator)
    • Alejandro Wilkins, El Gallo (Operator)

    Steven Poster, ASC, national president of the ICG, said, “What a fantastic group of talented emerging artists we have this year. We are always excited to see the great diversity of work done by these gifted members and honored to recognize their unique art of cinematography in short films.”

    Jimmy Matlosz, chairman of the Guild’s ECA committee added, “This year we had our largest crop of submissions, making the competition increasingly more challenging and setting a new bar for the outstanding quality of the films and new talent.”
     
    ICG’s Emerging Cinematographer Awards gives Local 600 members an opportunity to present themselves as directors of photography by submitting a short film with a running time of 30 minutes or less for consideration. The awards are open to any member of the Guild who is not already classified as a director of photography. The films are selected by a panel of ICG members from across the country and can be also be seen by a wider audience at selected film festivals throughout the year, including Camerimage in Poland.

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    Supreme Court Allows Multibillion-Dollar Class Action Lawsuit To Proceed Against Meta

    Friday, November 22, 2024

    The Supreme Court is allowing a multibillion-dollar class action investors' lawsuit to proceed against Facebook parent Meta, stemming from the privacy scandal involving the Cambridge Analytica political consulting firm.

    The justices heard arguments in November in Meta's bid to shut down the lawsuit. On Friday, they decided that they were wrong to take up the case in the first place.

    The high court dismissed the company's appeal, leaving in place an appellate ruling allowing the case to go forward.

    Investors allege that Meta did not fully disclose the risks that Facebook users' personal information would be misused by Cambridge Analytica, a firm that supported Donald Trump 's first successful Republican presidential campaign in 2016.

    Inadequacy of the disclosures led to two significant price drops in the price of the company's shares in 2018, after the public learned about the extent of the privacy scandal, the investors say.

    Meta spokesman Andy Stone said the company was disappointed by the court's action. "The plaintiff's claims are baseless and we will continue to defend ourselves as this case is considered by the District Court," Stone said in an emailed statement.

    Meta already has paid a $5.1 billion fine and reached a $725 million privacy settlement with users.

    Cambridge Analytica had ties to Trump political strategist Steve Bannon. It had paid a Facebook app developer for access to the personal information of about 87 million Facebook users. That data was then used to target U.S. voters during the 2016 campaign.

    The lawsuit is one of two high court cases involving class-action lawsuits against tech companies. The justices also are wrestling with whether to shut down a class action against Nvidia.... Read More

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