Union actors are again available for spots, ending a nearly six-month-long strike against the advertising industry. The board of directors of SAG and AFTRA voted last Saturday (10/28) to authorize their rank and file to return to work on commercials. Members of the two actors’ unions are expected to formally ratify the contract by the end of this month….Meanwhile, word is that the AICP and the DGA have reached a tentative agreement on a new four-year spot contract. Details to come….Ward Emling, director of the Mississippi Film Office, has been re-elected to a two-year term as president of the Association of Film Commissioners International….Bicoastal RSA USA has added directors Regan Cameron, Thomas Job, Johnny Hardstaff and Carl Rinsch….Director Robert Black and his executive producer, Lynne Pateman, formerly of Santa Monica-based Message, have joined Orbit Productions, Hollywood….Director/3-D animator Dave Foss and live action director/graphic designer Bil White have signed with Class-Key Chew-Po Commercials, Hollywood. Class-Key Chew-Po is the spot division of Hollywood-headquartered animation studio Klasky Csupo….Director Laurent Chanez has joined New York-based Naked Project for spot representation….Chicago-based NuWorld Editorial is slated to close Dec. 1, after its landmark brownstone was sold to investors. The four NuWorld partners–editors Bob Carr, Michael LaBellarte, Joe Malecki and the mono-monikered Yamus–plan to work independently….Barry Snyder has been named president of Post Logic Studios, Hollywood and Santa Monica. He formerly served as VP of postproduction at Warner Bros….Dana Horrell and Kim Massman have joined Santa Monica-based Wojahn Bros. Music as producers. Horrell comes from TVN Entertainment, Burbank, where she most recently served as affiliate sales manager. Massman’s previous roost was Chicago-headquartered Steve Ford Music, working out of Los Angeles as its West Coast sales manager; she also produced for the Ford shop….
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 Sofía 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