Documentary filmmaker Amy Berg has landed her first career representation as a spot director, coming aboard the roster of Los Angeles-based production house Hello!
Berg is best known for her Oscar®-nominated documentary, Deliver Us From Evil, an exposé on the Catholic Church’s cover up of serial rapist Father Oliver O’Grady. The director has also produced Emmy®-winning documentary segments for CBS, ABC News and CNN to name a few.
“Amy infuses her work with a raw realism that we think will translate well to spots,” said Carl Swan, executive producer at Hello!.
Berg recently completed a national PSA campaign for the RAINN Network starring Dylan McDermott, Kevin Bacon, Gabrielle Union and Christina Ricci.
Also among Berg’s credits is Polarized, one of the spotlight short films for the Live Earth campaign sponsored by Al Gore. Polarized, which premiered at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, explores consumer habits and their contribution to the decline of the planet.
Currently Berg is working on two documentaries in different phases of development. The first chronicles the life of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto while the other centers on the infamous Bernard Madoff.
Berg is attached to shoot her first feature, Since Walker Left, which is a remake of the French film Since Depuis Qu’Otar Est Parti. Produced by Anonymous Content, Since Walker Left stars Catherine Keener with production slated for next summer.
Apple and Google Face UK Investigation Into Mobile Browser Dominance
Apple and Google aren't giving consumers a genuine choice of mobile web browsers, a British watchdog said Friday in a report that recommends they face an investigation under new U.K. digital rules taking effect next year.
The Competition and Markets Authority took aim at Apple, saying the iPhone maker's tactics hold back innovation by stopping rivals from giving users new features like faster webpage loading. Apple does this by restricting progressive web apps, which don't need to be downloaded from an app store and aren't subject to app store commissions, the report said.
"This technology is not able to fully take off on iOS devices," the watchdog said in a provisional report on its investigation into mobile browsers that it opened after an initial study concluded that Apple and Google effectively have a chokehold on "mobile ecosystems."
The CMA's report also found that Apple and Google manipulate the choices given to mobile phone users to make their own browsers "the clearest or easiest option."
And it said that the a revenue-sharing deal between the two U.S. Big Tech companies "significantly reduces their financial incentives" to compete in mobile browsers on Apple's iOS operating system for iPhones.
Both companies said they will "engage constructively" with the CMA.
Apple said it disagreed with the findings and said it was concerned that the recommendations would undermine user privacy and security.
Google said the openness of its Android mobile operating system "has helped to expand choice, reduce prices and democratize access to smartphones and apps" and that it's "committed to open platforms that empower consumers."
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