Beef Films has signed director Alex Anderson for exclusive spot representation in the U.S. He was included in SHOOT‘s 2009 New Directors Showcase when he was with production house ONE at Optimus largely on the strength of a humorous promo titled “Done” for post/editorial house Optimus.
“Done” was additionally selected for SHOOT‘s “The Best Work You May Never See” gallery (SHOOT, 2/20/09) and that same year won a Chicago/Midwest Emmy for directing.
Among Anderson’s other credits are a promo for the MTV reality show Electric Barbarellas, a campaign for TuneUp starring hip-hop artist and actor Biz Markie and comedian-turned-actor Andy Milonakis, a short film for Google’s Nexus One smartphone, and digital projects for Staples and Trojan Condoms.
Anderson joins a Beef directorial roster that includes Danny Trachtenberg, Ian Schiller, Joe Schaak, Little Red Robot, Michael Pescasio, Nick Spooner, and Seth Townsend.
Beef is headed by partners/exec producers Ashley Adams, Stephen Hens and John Malina, and partner/director Spooner.
DGA Award Nominees Set For TV, Documentaries and Commercials
The Directors Guild of America has unveiled the nominees for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Television, Commercials and Documentary for 2024. The winners will be announced at the 77th Annual DGA Awards on Saturday, February 8, at The Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. Garnering multiple nods in their respective categories of Dramatic Series, Comedy Series and Movies for TV/Limited Series were, respectively, Shogun, The Bear and The Penguin. Three of the five nominations in Dramatic Series went to Shogun--Hiromi Kamata for the “Ladies of the Willow World Episode,” Frederick E.O. Toye for “Crimson Sky” and Jonathan van Tulleken for “Anjin.” The other two nods were garnered by Alex Graves for The Diplomat episode “Dreadnought” and Issa Lopez for the “Part 6” installment of True Detective, Night Country. The Bear also took three out of five nominations, in the Comedy Series category: Directors Ayo Edebiri for the “Napkins” episode, Duccio Fabbri for “Doors,” and Christopher Storer for “Tomorrow.” The other two Comedy Series nods went to Lucia Aniello for the Hacks episode “Bulletproof” and Jeff Schaffer for the Curb Your Enthusiasm episode “No Lessons Learned.” And garnering three of the five nods in Movies For Television and Limited Series was The Penguin: Directors Kevin Bray for “Top Hat,” Jennifer Getzinger for “A Great or Little Thing” and Helen Shaver for “Cent’anni.” Rounding out the category were nominationns for Alfonso Curaon on the strength of Disclaimer, and Steven Zaillian for Ripley. Nominated in the Documentary category were Brendan Bellomo and Slava Leontyev for... Read More