SHOOTonline will publish a Special Directors & DPs >e.dition on Monday, October 29, that will contain the entire Directors & DPs section from SHOOT’s October 26th print issue.
The lineup of profiles includes three notables whose latest features are already generating Oscar buzz: David O. Russell, director of Silver Linings Playbook which just won the Toronto International Film Festival’s Audience Award; Ang Lee whose Life Of Pi recently debuted at the New York Film Festival; and Juan Antonio Bayona whose The Impossible has garnered critical acclaim.
Among the other directors profiled are: Emmy-nominated Mad Men director Phil Abraham who recently wrapped an online romantic comedy for Target; Peter Sorcher who helmed arguably the year’s most profoundly positive social awareness project–the documentary I Want To Say–for Goodby Silverstein & Partners; Filip Engstrom whose whimsical “Color Changes Everything” spot for Target has been a darling on the awards show circuit; lauded indie feature filmmaker Ramin Bahrani who’s looking to make a splash in commercials and branded content by securing spot representation via a prominent production house; and two-time DGA Award-winning director (The Kennedys, 24) Jon Cassar who broke new ground with this year’s AT&T online series Daybreak out of BBDO New York.
And our profiled cinematographers are: two-time Oscar winner (Braveheart, Legends of the Fall) John Toll, ASC, who teamed with DP Frank Griebe to shoot Cloud Atlas, another Academy Awards contender; and Ben Richardson who earlier this year own the Best Cinematography Award at the Sundance Film Festival for the acclaimed Beasts of the Southern Wild.
Plus our featured Up-and-Coming Directors rundown includes: A filmmaker whose spec submission to a commercial competition gained airplay on this year’s Super Bowl to great comedic effect; another who scored with a spec piece based on an agency creative concept that was originally intended for the Super Bowl; a director whose comedy shorts, including an Apple iPhone spot spoof, have found a major audience online; a creative collective whose brand of action sports storytelling and penchant for connecting with the youth culture is now being brought to the ad marketplace; a director selected for the AFI Directing Workshop for Women and whose short film was recently screened at the DGA Theater as part of the Emerging Cinematographer Awards; and an accomplished filmmaker from Spain who has connected with a production house in L.A. and landed her first U.S. spot gig.
SUPERLATIVE Signs Director Claudia Abend For Spots and Branded Content
Latin American director/editor and documentary filmmaker Claudia Abend has joined SUPERLATIVE for her first U.S. representation spanning commercials and branded content.
Abend's empathetic docu-style POV has garnered several international awards for the documentary films Hit (2008) and The Flower of Life (2018). Her spotmaking credits include such brands as Procter & Gamble, Nestle and Blue Cross/Blue Shield. SUPERLATIVE has already worked with Abend, together producing a new ad campaign for digital agency Tinuiti and The Honest Company, a consumer goods corporation featuring eco-minded products.
“We found Claudia through her poignant documentaries on the festival circuit,” said SUPERLATIVE creative manager Stefan Dezil. “We are excited about her textured narratives, emotional storytelling, and her powerhouse long-form storytelling abilities, currently on her third feature film. As SUPERLATIVE continues to build our brand after premiering our latest films at Sundance and SXSW, Claudia is the kind of multidimensional artist we are excited to partner with on branded content and beyond. Fluent in English and Spanish, her reel shows real prowess with infants, food and skin products, families both young and old. Great visual storytelling and inspirational doc work.”
Abend began her career in her native Uruguay, studying film and editing in college. “My dad would show me films like Citizen Kane,” she said. “I love cinema and became an editor. It was here that I learned all about communicating human emotion.”
From the get-go, Abend hit it big as a documentary director, teaming with Adrianna Loeff on Hit, a movie chronicling pop artists of Uruguayan music. Abend took home a Best Editing... Read More