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    Editor Peter Brandt goes to Work on both sides of the Atlantic

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    LONDON --

    Editor Peter Brandt has joined Work’s roster across all three offices in UK, NY and LA for commercials and music videos. Brandt continues to work across Scandinavia out of his own Copenhagen-based company, Little Machine, successfully balancing 20 years of advertising with film and television work. 

    Brandt’s commercials collaborations include work with director Martin de Thurah and WCRS for British Arrows & D&AD winner BUPA's 'For Owning The Dancefloor," Martin Werner’s DnB comedy classic starring George Clooney, and Interflora 's 'Give Love A Helping Hand' as well as Ronaldo vs Pele in Adam Hashemi’s Emirates "All Time Greats." Andreas Nilsson’s multi award winning Volvo "Epic Split feat. Van Damme" garnered 6 Grand Prix internationally for Forsman & Bodenfors. 

    “I wanted to work with Peter the moment I saw his work" said Work founder/partner Jane Dilworth. "It’s still incredibly special to see work that has been so well crafted.  He has a natural ability for storytelling and conveying emotional nuances. And once we met, it was even clearer his sensibility was so in tune with all of the Work editors. A really open person, he’s one of us.”

    Having started out editing commercials and music videos in Denmark, it was acceptance into The National Danish Film School in 2003 that really opened up a series of narrative features. His first collaboration with director Christoffer Boe on psychological thriller Reconstruction was rewarded with the Camera d’Or at Cannes Film Festival, Best Editor at The Robert Awards and The Young Cinema Award at Venice Film Festival.  Subsequent productions included the BAFTA-winning Danish political drama Borgen in 2010 (director Søren Kragh-Jacobsen), Cannes Critics Week-nominated When Animals Dream in 2014 (director Jonas Arnby) and The Robert Award for Best Children's Film Antboy (director Ask Hasselbalch). Brandt was also nominated for Best Editing at 2016 Robert Awards for 9 April, a Danish Second World War film by Roni Ezra. 

    Brandt says: "The variety of commercials and feature length work drives me. The end goal is always the same, to find the structure. But to distil an entire story to 60 seconds and on the other hand hold that one emotional beat throughout exercises all my muscles. So Work Editorial is perfect in terms of size and approach, with an intrinsic understanding of these kind of choices editors make in their career."




    Raoul Peck Resurrects A Once-Forgotten Anti-Apartheid Photographer In “Ernest Cole: Lost and Found”

    Friday, November 22, 2024

    When the photographer Ernest Cole died in 1990 at the age of 49 from pancreatic cancer at a Manhattan hospital, his death was little noted.

    Cole, one of the most important chroniclers of apartheid-era South Africa, was by then mostly forgotten and penniless. Banned by his native country after the publication of his pioneering photography book "House of Bondage," Cole had emigrated in 1966 to the United States. But his life in exile gradually disintegrated into intermittent homelessness. A six-paragraph obituary in The New York Times ran alongside a list of death notices.

    But Cole receives a vibrant and stirring resurrection in Raoul Peck's new film "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found," narrated in Cole's own words and voiced by LaKeith Stanfield. The film, which opens in theaters Friday, is laced throughout with Cole's photographs, many of them not before seen publicly.

    As he did in his Oscar-nominated James Baldwin documentary "I Am Not Your Negro," the Haitian-born Peck shares screenwriting credit with his subject. "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found" is drawn from Cole's own writings. In words and images, Peck brings the tragic story of Cole to vivid life, reopening the lens through which Cole so perceptively saw injustice and humanity.

    "Film is a political tool for me," Peck said in a recent interview over lunch in Manhattan. "My job is to go to the widest audience possible and try to give them something to help them understand where they are, what they are doing, what role they are playing. It's about my fight today. I don't care about the past."

    "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found" is a movie layered with meaning that goes beyond Cole's work. It asks questions not just about the societies Cole documented but of how he was treated as an artist,... Read More

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