SHOOTonline.com will be publishing a Special Directors >e.dition on Monday, March 22, 2010, that will contain the entire Directors’ section from SHOOT‘s March 19th Print Issue
The lineup of profiles includes such notable directors as: Marc Webb who broke into features with the critically acclaimed (500) Days of Summer and is now slated to take on the next Spider-Man movie; Marina Zenovich who in September won two Emmy Awards–one for directing, the other for writing–on the strength of her documentary Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired; Pete Circuitt whose CBS TV primetime special Yes, Virginia for Macy’s and JWT debuted to rave reviews; and Ellen Kuras, who last year received a Best Documentary Oscar nomination for Nerakhoon. Webb is handled for spots and videos by DNA. Zenovich recently secured representation as a commercial director via Saville Productions. Circuitt is with The Ebeling Group. And Kuras settles into the spot director’s chair at Park Pictures.
Also in the mix are profiles of the five nominees for the DGA Award as Best Commercial Director of 2009: Joaquin Baca-Asay of Park Pictures; Garth Davis of Anonymous Content; Craig Gillespie of MJZ; Tom Kuntz of MJZ (who won the DGA Award); and Chris Palmer of Gorgeous Enterprises (repped stateside by Anonymous Content).
Our line-up of Up-And-Coming Directors to watch includes a recent BAFTA Award winner for an animation short; a noted DP who’s making his first foray into commercial helming; an editor who’s diversified into directing; a documentary filmmaking duo who have both Oscar and Emmy nominations; and an artist with a VFX background who’s made a splash with a short film that is featured in our “The Best Work You May Never See” gallery.
Plus our Cinematographers Series feature looks at ASC Lifetime Achievement Award winner Caleb Deschanel, ASC (who is repped as a spot director by Dark Light Pictures); Eric Steelberg, who shot Jason Reitman’s Juno and Up in the Air; and rising music video and spot lenser Shawn Kim.
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."
It's the latest move by regulators on both sides of the Atlantic to crack down on the... Read More