By Kathy DeSalvo
FilmCore, Santa Monica, has signed editor Alan Nay, who comes over from Seattle-headquartered Pinnacle Studios.
Nay, who was seeking a move to Southern California for greater access to high-profile advertising, submitted a reel to FilmCore that caught the eye of the company’s president, editor Steve McCoy. Of Nay’s work, McCoy assessed: "The choices he made, the use of sound design and graphics—it was very creative and often surprised you. A lot of the work was made special by editing."
Nay spent the past two years at Pinnacle, where he became best known for spots that employed sports imagery and had a contemporary look and musical feel. This was exemplified in Powerade’s "Powerflo" for McCann-Erickson, Seattle; the ad consisted of aggressive sports imagery and vintage stock footage (including a shot of two trains colliding head-on), rapidly juxtaposed within the framework of a divided screen with elegant typography appearing beneath.
During his Pinnacle stay, Nay also cut projects for Publicis, Seattle, such as campaigns for the Seattle Seahawks football team and for wireless communications provider Cell One. In the latter, a woman learns that she can more easily call her family to dinner with her cell phone than by using the old farmhouse triangle.
A native of Cleveland, Nay studied film and video in college before moving to Seattle to pursue a career as a musician. There, he met art director/designer Will Hyde. Nay, who had experience producing and editing music videos for some of the bands he played in, became the editor on the original staff of the Seattle-based design and production studio Hyde founded, Digital Kitchen. It proved to be a natural fit as the first project Nay edited—a corporate video for fitness equipment manufacturer Precor—won several regional awards for editing.
The Long and Short of The IDA Documentary Awards’ Shortlists
The lineups are set as 20 feature-length and 20 short documentaries have been shortlisted for the 40th IDA Documentary Awards.
This year, the IDA Documentary Awards shortlists and nominees are selected by independent committees of 300 documentary makers, curators, critics, and industry experts from 40-plus countries. More than 700 total entries were submitted for all categories from 77 countries.
Additional IDA Awards will be presented in the following categories: Best Director, Best Cinematography, Best Editing, Best Writing, Best Music Score, Best Curated Series, Best Episodic Series, Best Limited Series, Best TV Feature Documentary, Best Music Documentary, Best Audio Documentary, the David L. Wolper Student Documentary Award, the ABC News VideoSource Award, and the Pare Lorentz Award.
All nominees in the above categories will be announced on November 19.
The 40th IDA Documentary Awards Ceremony will be held on December 5 at The Orpheum Theater in Los Angeles.
Here’s a rundown of the feature and short film IDA Documentary Awards’ shortlists.
FEATURES SHORTLIST
Agent of Happiness
Black Box Diaries
Brisa
Dahomey
Ernest Cole: Lost and Found
Hollywoodgate
Igualada
Kamay
Mediha
Motherboard
My Sweet Land
No Other Land
Queendom
Seeking Mavis Beacon
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat
Sugarcane
Tell Them You Love Me
The Last Journey
The Remarkable Life of Ibelin
Water For Life (Agua Es... Read More