Creative editorial house Final Cut has added award-winning editor Antonio Gómez-Pan to its roster for global representation. He will be based out of Final Cut's Los Angeles office.
Antonio Gómez-Pan was born in Madrid and graduated with a BA degree in film editing from the film school ESCAC in Spain. Gómez-Pan has edited advertising projects that have gone on to win gold at Cannes Lions and at the Berlin Film Festival in various categories. He has edited assorted music videos and worked for brands like Coca-Cola, Nike, Amazon, Adidas, Chanel, North Face, Toyota, IKEA, Samsung, and Volkswagen, and has collaborated with agencies including Leo Burnett, Saatchi & Saatchi, Sid Lee, McCann, and JWT. Gómez-Pan has teamed with directors such as Elliot Rausch, Albert Uría, Rodrigo Valdes and Cliqua. He recently finished a documentary series for Quibi, &Music, directed by the Los Angeles-based artist, filmmaker, and historian, Calmatic, out of production company PRETTYBIRD.
Gómez-Pan has edited short films that have been selected for Sundance, Cannes, Clermont-Ferrand, and have won at the L.A. Film Festival (Mi Amigo Invisible) and the Sitges Film Festival (Elefante), among many others. He is the editor of several award-winning feature films including Othello, which won for Best Independent European Movie of the Year at the Paris Film Festival, and Puzzled Love, an official selection at the San Sebastián Film Festival. He has worked with directors including Jaume Collet-Serra on Hooked Up and Michel Gondry on De Quoi Je Me Mêlle. Gomez-Pan was appointed to the Academy of the Spanish Motion Picture Arts & Sciences in 2017.
Gómez-Pan joins other recent Final Cut additions including editor Sam Bould and U.S. managing director Justin Brukman. Final Cut has offices in London, New York, and Los Angeles.
Writers of “Conclave,” “Say Nothing” Win Scripter Awards
The authors and screenwriters behind the film “Conclave” and the series “Say Nothing” won the 37th-annual USC Libraries Scripter Awards during a black-tie ceremony at USC’s Town and Gown ballroom on Saturday evening (2/22).
The Scripter Awards recognize the year’s most accomplished adaptations of the written word for the screen, including both feature-length films and episodic series.
Novelist Robert Harris and screenwriter Peter Straughan took home the award for “Conclave.”
In accepting the award, Straughan said, “Adaptation is a really strange process, you’re very much the servant of two masters. In a way it’s an act of betrayal of one master for the other.” He joked that “You start off with a book that you love, you read it again and again, and then you end up throwing it over your shoulder,” crediting author Robert Harris for being “so kind, so generous, so open throughout.”
In the episodic series category, Joshua Zetumer and Patrick Radden Keefe won for the episode “The People in the Dirt” from the limited series “Say Nothing,” which Zetumer adapted from Keefe’s nonfiction book about the Troubles in Ireland.
Zetumer referenced this year’s extraordinary group of Scripter finalists, saying “projects like these reminded me of why I wanted to become a writer when I was sitting in USC’s Leavey Library dreaming of becoming a screenwriter. If you fell in love with movies, or fell in love with TV, chances are you fell in love with something dangerous.”
Special guest for the evening, actress and producer Jennifer Beals, shared her thoughts on the impact of libraries. “If ever you are at a loss wondering if there is good in the world,” she said, “you have only to go to a... Read More