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    Epoch Films Signs Director Michael Lawrence

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    LOS ANGELES --

    Director Michael Lawrence has joined bicoastal Epoch Films for representation in the U.S. He was previously handled by @radical.media in the American ad market and continues to be repped by Skin and Bones in Canada.

    Lawrence has worked extensively in the U.S., Europe and Canada with commercials for such brands as ESPN, Nike (China), Google, Twitter (Canada) and New Era. His ad endeavors have earned recognition and awards from the ADCC, Applied Arts, Bessies and Communication Arts, among others.

    Lawrence’s “Supernatural” spot for Mizuno engages on a level that is completely holistic by weaving high-energy flashes of breathtaking natural landscapes with footage of a superhuman runner in training. His CIBC campaign “In Her Shoes” follows a woman’s battle with breast cancer by using the camera from a first person perspective. Through her eyes, viewers experience the full arc of her story, from diagnosis through cancer treatment. The result is shockingly intimate and rife with emotion.

    Lawrence, a Buffalo, NY native, came to Los Angeles by way of Indonesia, where he worked as a photographer focusing on gender rights and social causes in addition to cultivating his skills as a cinematographer. After relocating to California, Lawrence transitioned to directing full-time, creating music videos for the likes of Wiseblood, Dirty Beaches and Porcelain Raft.

    Epoch is headed by founder Mindy Goldberg and executive producers Melissa Culligan and Youree Henley.

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    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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