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    Comedy Director Rob Pritts Joins Lucky 21

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    LOS ANGELES --

    Director Rob Pritts has come aboard the roster of Lucky 21, the production company with offices in Culver City, Calif.,  and Dallas. Pritts is known for bringing out the comedic foibles of the human condition. At Lucky 21 he joins a directing roster that includes Jeff Bednarz, Tom Ryan and The Chartrands.

    Based in L.A., Pritts has forged a career rooted in presenting familiar situations in uncommon ways for a truly comedic effect. His body of work spans such brands as LG, Charter, AT&T, SEGA, Twix, Snickers, Altoids, Minute Maid, M&M’s, AXE, American Express, ESPN, Dr. Pepper and Molson. 

    Pritts had an affinity for comedy at a young age.  Coming from a large Chicago family and lacking athletic prowess, his improvised defense mechanism of humor led him to acting, film school and ultimately to directing. His very first spot, “Bob In a Box,” won a Gold Clio, and he went on to win the trust of celebrity and athletic talents, including Jerry Seinfeld and Denis Leary, William Shatner, Kobe Byrant, Jeff Gordon and John Elway.

    Pritts comes over to Lucky 21 from Backyard. John Gilliland is Lucky 21’s exec producer.

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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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