February 2, 2001 Directors Dante Ariola of Propaganda Films, Bryan Buckley of Hungry Man, David Cornell of Headquarters, Leslie Dektor of Dektor Film, and Lenard Dorfman of @radical.media have been nominated for the Directors Guild of America (DGA) Award for best commercial director….Bicoastal HKM Productions has entered into a strategic alliance with Filter Media, a New York-based enhanced television and convergence strategy consulting and content-development shop….Director Neil Tardio, Jr., has signed with A Band Apart Commercials, Los Angeles….Satellite has expanded its roster, signing directors Christophe Navarre and Pascual Sisto…..
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February 2, 1996 Bicoastal Johns+Gorman Films is launching a music video division, which will operate out of its Hollywood office, and be headed by managing director Jeanne Mattiussi, formerly of the Polygram Label Group….Quark, a Denver-headquartered developer of publishing software has bought a partial ownership stake in Colossal Pictures, San Francisco….Tim Timpanaro is joining Multi Video Group/Rhinoceros, New York, as executive VP/operations. He comes over from Manhattan Transfer/Edit….Reel FX, Dallas, a visual effects and animation shop, has bought West End Post, Dallas….
The authors and screenwriters behind the film โConclaveโ and the series โSay Nothingโ won the 37th-annual USC Libraries Scripter Awards during a black-tie ceremony at USCโs Town and Gown ballroom on Saturday evening (2/22).
The Scripter Awards recognize the yearโs most accomplished adaptations of the written word for the screen, including both feature-length films and episodic series.
Novelist Robert Harris and screenwriter Peter Straughan took home the award for โConclave.โ
In accepting the award, Straughan said, โAdaptation is a really strange process, youโre very much the servant of two masters. In a way itโs an act of betrayal of one master for the other.โ He joked that โYou start off with a book that you love, you read it again and again, and then you end up throwing it over your shoulder,โ crediting author Robert Harris for being โso kind, so generous, so open throughout.โ
In the episodic series category, Joshua Zetumer and Patrick Radden Keefe won for the episode โThe People in the Dirtโ from the limited series โSay Nothing,โ which Zetumer adapted from Keefeโs nonfiction book about the Troubles in Ireland.
Zetumer referenced this yearโs extraordinary group of Scripter finalists, saying โprojects like these reminded me of why I wanted to become a writer when I was sitting in USCโs Leavey Library dreaming of becoming a screenwriter. If you fell in love with movies, or fell in love with TV, chances are you fell in love with something dangerous.โ
Special guest for the evening, actress and producer Jennifer Beals, shared her thoughts on the impact of libraries. โIf ever you are at a loss wondering if there is good in the world,โ she said, โyou have only to go to a... Read More
