SHOOTonline will publish a Special Directors >e.dition on Monday, March 30, that will contain the entire Directors Series section from SHOOT ’s March 27 print issue (including extended versions of some stories).
The lineup of Director Profiles includes: Ava DuVernay, lauded for her feature Selma (Paramount Pictures); Lisa Cholodenko, who won the DGA Award last month for the HBO miniseries Olive Kitteridge; Lesli Linka Glatter, another DGA winner for an episode of Showtime’s Homeland; and the directing duo The Mercadantes–Daniel and Katina Mercadante–who were nominated for the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Commercials.
Cholodenko and Glatter were two of four women to win DGA Awards in major categories this year (the others being Laura Poitras who topped the Documentary competition with Citizenfour; and Jill Soloway for Comedy Series on the basis of an episode of the Amazon show Transparent). And Katina Mercadante is one of only three women to receive a nomination in the DGA Commercials category since its inception in 1980.
Our lineup of profiles also includes: Nicolai Fuglsig who won this year’s DGA Award for his commercialmaking; and noted feature filmmakers who have successfully diversified into the spot/branded content space–Christopher Guest (Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, A Mighty Wind); Doug Liman (Go, Swingers, The Bourne Identity, Edge of Tomorrow); and the team of Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman (American Splendor, which earned them a Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar nomination, and Ten Thousand Saints, which recently debuted at the Sundance Film Festival).
Meanwhile our lineup of promising, up-and-coming directorial talent includes: an accomplished agency creative director whose directorial touch came to the fore with a moving, thought-provoking PSA; and three different helming teams.
In our Cinematographers & Cameras Series we meet an Oscar-winning (Life of Pi) DP who just finished a creative journey to Tomorrowland with director Brad Bird; an ASC Award winner last month for an episode of Boardwalk Empire (HBO), marking the fourth time in five years that he has garnered the coveted honor in a TV category; and a cinematographer who not only picked up his first career ASC Award for the pilot of the TV series Manhattan (WGN America) but also comes off a year which saw him lens St. Vincent (The Weinstein Company), which earned Golden Globe nominations for Best Motion Picture Comedy and Best Actor in a Comedy Series.
And next Monday’s special e.dition will include a feature not in the print issue: coverage of last month's DGA “Meet The Feature Nominees” session. Panelists were: Alejandro González Iñárritu who went on to win the coveted Guild Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film for Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) and the other four DGA nominees–Wes Anderson for The Grand Budapest Hotel; Clint Eastwood for American Sniper; Richard Linklater for Boyhood; and Morten Tyldum for The Imitation Game.
