Psyop has added to its roster the Argentina-based Buda.tv, an animation studio and directing collective formed in 2016 by Martin Dasnoy and Dalmiro Buigues. With respective backgrounds in directing animated films for brands like Google, Nike and the Buenos Aires 2018 Youth Olympics Games, and branding for television networks such as Discovery, Cartoon Network and Nickelodeon, Dasnoy and Buigues combine stylistic character design and motion graphics with beautifully crafted narrative storytelling. While their work tends toward 3D animation, Buda.tv continues to experiment with different styles and aesthetics, always looking to break rules and conventions to convey stories in the most unique way possible. In 2020 Buda created a collaborative project for Mate, the popular Latin American beverage, carefully selecting friends and colleagues with very different visual styles to participate. Within a month of launching, the film gained over 3 million views and 30,000 shares on social media….
Amsterdam-based design and motion graphics studio PlusOne has brought Manuel Ferrari on board as creative director. Ferrari has been making waves in the animation industry since 2003. His wide experience has seen him work with a range of world-class brands and studios over the years including Duvel, Nespresso, Whatsapp, Mini, Ambassadors, Glassworks, Post-Panic, Christian Borstlap, and Louis Vuitton….
FuseFX, a visual effects company that specializes in providing services for TV, film and commercials globally across eight studios, has named Julian Sarmiento as its global director of virtual production and real-time. This is part of FuseFX’s efforts to integrate virtual production and real-time services into the company’s key service offerings. Sarmiento brings 20 years of combined experience in visual effects, location-based entertainment, and virtual production to FuseFX. He has long worked on pioneering technologies such as immersive/interactive media, virtual production, digital characters, and live real-time performance. Prior to joining FuseFX, Sarmiento held positions including VFX supervisor at Mirada Studios and executive creative director at Digital Domain….
Oak Leaf Productions, an independent, minority-owned, full-service production, content and media company in L.A., has appointed Daniel Marin as its head of production. A marketing and media industry vet with more than 20 years of experience, Marin has created, built and led production at firms within Publicis and WPP and most recently at JOAN…
Juliette Welfling Takes On A Musical, A Crime Thriller, Comedy and Drama In “Emelia Pérez”
Editor Juliette Welfling has a track record of close-knit, heartfelt collaboration with writer-director Jacques Audiard, a four-time BAFTA Award nominee for Best Film not in the English Language--starting with The Beat That My Heart Skipped in 2006, then A Prophet in 2010, Rust and Bone in 2013, and Dheepan in 2017. He won for The Beat That My Heart Skipped and A Prophet.
Welfling cut three of those features: A Prophet, Rust and Bone, and Dheepan. And that shared filmography has since grown to most recently include Emelia Pérez, the Oscar buzz-worthy film from Netflix. Welfling herself is not stranger to Academy Award banter. In fact, she earned a Best Achievement in Film Editing Oscar nomination in 2008 for director Julian Schnabel’s The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.
Emelia Pérez is a hybrid musical/drama/thriller which introduces us to a talented but undervalued lawyer named Rita (portrayed by Zoe Saldana) who receives a lucrative offer out of the blue from a feared drug cartel boss who’s looking to retire from his sordid business and disappear forever by becoming the woman he’s always dreamt of being (Karla SofÃa Gascón in a dual role as Manitas Del Monte/Emilia Pérez). Rita helps pull this off, orchestrating the faked death of Del Monte who leaves behind a widow (Jessi, played by Selena Gomez) and kids. While living comfortably and contently in her/their new identity, Pérez misses the children. Pérez once again enlists Rita--this time to return to family life, reuniting with the kids by pretending to be their aunt, the sister of Del Monte. Now as an aunt, Pérez winds up adopting a more altruistic bent professionally,... Read More