Editor Greg Letson has returned to Red Car, formerly his editing home from 2000 to ’05. At Hooligan for the past year, Letson was at Fluid before that.
Asked what drew him back to Red Car, Letson explained, “It was a no-brainer, between Larry’s intelligent vision and Mary’s acumen for managing talent,” the references being to Red Car founder/editor Larry Bridges and Red Car New York managing director Mary Knox.
Letson’s work has spanned many styles and genres over the past two-and-a-half decades, from visual storytelling to documentary-style, dramatic dialogue, VFX and comedy. In 2008 he won the AICE Award for outstanding creative editorial in the Public Service category for his work on a PSA titled “Train” for the Library of Congress via the Ad Council.
“Greg’s a tremendous creative resource for all of us at Red Car, not just for his agency clients,” said Bridges. “His curiosity and passion for creative expression, as well as the wide range of contacts and influences he brings to his work every day, are assets we value highly.”
Recent clients and projects Letson has edited include broadcast campaigns for Campbell’s for BBDO, New York City’s Montefiore Hospital and Liberty Bank for agency Cronin & Co., Publix Supermarkets for agency 22squared, Subway for McCarthy Mambro Bertino, and Clamato for mcgarrybowen.
In addition to Letson, the Red Car New York roster includes editors Deirdre Bell, Michael Coletta, Charlie Cusumano, Jonathan Edwards, Paula Halton, Keith Olwell and Josh Towvim, along with creative director Chris Bialkowski and animation director Crankbunny. All are available nationally through the Red Car offices in Dallas, Chicago 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