Passport Films, the Santa Monica shop headed by executive producers Patti Coulter and David Coulter, has signed New York-based director Bobby Sheehan for commercial and branded content projects. His filmography spans commercials (adidas, American Express, Chrysler, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Budweiser, McDonald’s, Miller Beer, Motorola, Pepsi, Reebok), features (Seed, Cayman West), documentaries (Listen To The World, Arias With A Twist: The Docufantasy) shorts, (I Thee Wed for the United Nations) and television (The Talent Collector for AMC; reality series Repo Men for TLC and Discovery Networks, TV documentaries Jeff Koons: Beyond Heaven and Mr. Prince, a tribute to Broadway director Hal Prince for the Ovation channel).
Sheehan is currently in post on Doctored, a feature-length documentary that offers and details simple lifestyle choices recommended by the brightest minds from the chiropractic and functional medicine modalities.
Sheehan and his wife, executive producer/partner, Sara Feldmann Sheehan, own long format production and editorial company Working Pictures, New York. Passport is aligning with Working Pictures to co-produce some long format projects and branded content TV shows.
Bobby Sheehan is also a photographer. His work has been exhibited nationally in galleries such as Bridgewater Lustburg in NY, Stephen Cohen Gallery in L.A. and the Vision Gallery in San Francisco. Sheehan graduated from NYU’s film division of the Tisch School of the Arts.
He has most recently been working on varied projects via Working Pictures. Earlier he was repped for commercials by Celsius Films and later did some spot jobs via Socket Films and then Working Pictures.
Sheehan has in development Standing 8 and Blur, two companion films that are both semi-autobiographical and deal with the struggles of being part of the New York underclass desperately looking for hope.
Sheehan recently produced, directed and wrote the original series Motor City Rising for Ovation which shines a light on the vibrant, entwined artistic culture of Detroit and the ways its people are reshaping the city in ways that are small yet profound.
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."
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