SHOOTonline.com will be publishing a Special Directors >e.dition on Monday, March 22, 2010, that will contain the entire Directors’ section from SHOOT‘s March 19th Print Issue
The lineup of profiles includes such notable directors as: Marc Webb who broke into features with the critically acclaimed (500) Days of Summer and is now slated to take on the next Spider-Man movie; Marina Zenovich who in September won two Emmy Awards–one for directing, the other for writing–on the strength of her documentary Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired; Pete Circuitt whose CBS TV primetime special Yes, Virginia for Macy’s and JWT debuted to rave reviews; and Ellen Kuras, who last year received a Best Documentary Oscar nomination for Nerakhoon. Webb is handled for spots and videos by DNA. Zenovich recently secured representation as a commercial director via Saville Productions. Circuitt is with The Ebeling Group. And Kuras settles into the spot director’s chair at Park Pictures.
Also in the mix are profiles of the five nominees for the DGA Award as Best Commercial Director of 2009: Joaquin Baca-Asay of Park Pictures; Garth Davis of Anonymous Content; Craig Gillespie of MJZ; Tom Kuntz of MJZ (who won the DGA Award); and Chris Palmer of Gorgeous Enterprises (repped stateside by Anonymous Content).
Our line-up of Up-And-Coming Directors to watch includes a recent BAFTA Award winner for an animation short; a noted DP who’s making his first foray into commercial helming; an editor who’s diversified into directing; a documentary filmmaking duo who have both Oscar and Emmy nominations; and an artist with a VFX background who’s made a splash with a short film that is featured in our “The Best Work You May Never See” gallery.
Plus our Cinematographers Series feature looks at ASC Lifetime Achievement Award winner Caleb Deschanel, ASC (who is repped as a spot director by Dark Light Pictures); Eric Steelberg, who shot Jason Reitman’s Juno and Up in the Air; and rising music video and spot lenser Shawn Kim.
Cinematographer Pepe Avila del Pino Discusses Residente’s “313,” Winning An ASC Award
Pepe Avila del Pino’s second career nomination for an American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Award earned him his first win earlier this week in Los Angeles--for outstanding achievement in music videos on the strength of the Residente-directed “313” featuring performances by Residente, Sílvia Pérez Cruz and Penelope Cruz. The cinematic, stirringly beautiful “313” opens with Penelope Cruz narrating in Spanish, reflecting on the meaning of life and the passage of time. She is joined by ballet dancers who are said to represent time while Cruz represents life itself. The ethereal music video brings us the essence of time in our lives. Residente’s life and time are seemingly controlled, respectively, by Cruz and the dancers from the outset. But towards the end of the video, Residente starts to orchestrate his own time and life. What can’t be denied, though, is that time is fleeting as Cruz and Residente begin to disappear before our eyes. Avila del Pino, AMC, is best known for his work in television and features. In fact, his alluded to first ASC Award nomination came in 2018 on the basis of the TV pilot for The Deuce, directed by Michelle MacLaren. Over the past seven years, Avila del Pino has lensed select music videos--all for his friend, Residente (a.k.a. Rene Perez Joglar). The Residente videos have thus become passion projects, done out of “pure love” with the same close-knit team. The “313” song and video were especially personal to Residente in that they were both inspired by a friend who had died about a year earlier. To win an ASC Award for this particular project is most gratifying for Avila del Pino--not only because of the video’s significance to Residente, but also the deep feelings the DP has for the ASC.... Read More