Director Dana Brown, whose credits include the noted surfing documentary Step Into Liquid, has come aboard the roster of Caviar for commercials. This marks the first career spot representation for Brown whose latest long-form credit is Highwater, a feature-length documentary chronicling the 2005 Triple Crown of Surfing on Hawaii’s North Shore. Highwater is slated for release this fall.
Brown’s brings a distinctive filmmaking lineage to Caviar, which maintains offices in Venice, Brussels and Amsterdam. His father is Bruce Brown who helmed the classic surf film, Endless Summer. Dana Brown has collaborated with his father on several projects, including Summer‘s sequels, Endless Summer II and Endless Summer Revisited. Dana Brown directed the latter.
Dana Brown grew up in Dana Point, Calif., and first started making films with his friends at the age of eight. Throughout his teens, he assisted his father on film shoots and later collaborated with him in a more official capacity as a writer, producer and editor on Endless Summer II and Endless Summer Revisited. Dana Brown eventually ventured out on his own with over 50 sports-related productions including the Emmy-nominated series, Surfer’s Journal, and feature-length documentary, Dust to Glory, focused on the Baja 1000 (multi-vehicle race).
Brown’s success with Liquid and Dust to Glory has firmly established him in the non-fiction adventure film genre. “I have always been interested in people and their various obsessions. People with obsessions that might kill them, be it surfing or wartime journalism, are the most fascinating of all,” Brown observed.
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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