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    Believe Media Signs Director Abhinay Deo, Forms Partnership With RDP India

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    Believe Media has signed director Abhinay Deo for commercial representation. Additionally, a strategic partnership has been formed between Believe and Deo’s own India-based production company, RDP.

    Born and raised in Bombay, India, Deo started on the path to film 20 years ago as the in-house director for Ogilvy and Mather India prior to founding RDP in 2000.  Today Abhinay has over 450 spots to his credit, including well-known ads for Nike, Tata Safari, The Times of India, and the soul-stirring Mumbai Mirror newspaper campaign, which earned Abhinay the 2012 Cannes Gold Lion for Direction.  The standout spot, “I am Mumbai,” documents four real citizens as they boldly and publicly vocalize personal accounts of headlines broken in the Mumbai Mirror.  With voices personified by anger and courage, the film amplifies the powerful unheard stories of Mumbaikars that the paper brings to its readers.

    Adding to the list of accolades is the 2013 Clio, Bronze Lion, and six Spikes Asia Awards for Deo’s passion-infused Nike campaign out of JWT India.  In the spot “Parallel Journeys,” he intersperses footage of the daily rituals of the world’s top cricketers with glimpses into the lives of young athletes relentlessly pursuing that level of greatness all across cricket-obsessed India.

    Of the partnership with Believe, RDP’s producer Apurba Sengupta said, “We’re elated that our leading director Abhinay Deo will be represented by Believe internationally and that we will get to represent their roster in India.  We look forward to an extremely exciting and creatively fulfilling collaboration ahead.”

    Believe founder/EP Luke Thornton added, “Believe is thrilled to represent a preeminent filmmaker such as Abhinay Deo and to join forces with India in this ever-expanding market, especially with a partner as established and creatively daring as RDP.”

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    Raoul Peck Resurrects A Once-Forgotten Anti-Apartheid Photographer In “Ernest Cole: Lost and Found”

    Friday, November 22, 2024

    When the photographer Ernest Cole died in 1990 at the age of 49 from pancreatic cancer at a Manhattan hospital, his death was little noted.

    Cole, one of the most important chroniclers of apartheid-era South Africa, was by then mostly forgotten and penniless. Banned by his native country after the publication of his pioneering photography book "House of Bondage," Cole had emigrated in 1966 to the United States. But his life in exile gradually disintegrated into intermittent homelessness. A six-paragraph obituary in The New York Times ran alongside a list of death notices.

    But Cole receives a vibrant and stirring resurrection in Raoul Peck's new film "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found," narrated in Cole's own words and voiced by LaKeith Stanfield. The film, which opens in theaters Friday, is laced throughout with Cole's photographs, many of them not before seen publicly.

    As he did in his Oscar-nominated James Baldwin documentary "I Am Not Your Negro," the Haitian-born Peck shares screenwriting credit with his subject. "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found" is drawn from Cole's own writings. In words and images, Peck brings the tragic story of Cole to vivid life, reopening the lens through which Cole so perceptively saw injustice and humanity.

    "Film is a political tool for me," Peck said in a recent interview over lunch in Manhattan. "My job is to go to the widest audience possible and try to give them something to help them understand where they are, what they are doing, what role they are playing. It's about my fight today. I don't care about the past."

    "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found" is a movie layered with meaning that goes beyond Cole's work. It asks questions not just about the societies Cole documented but of how he was treated as an artist,... Read More

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