By Christine Champagne
Office workers find all sorts of interesting ways to spend their downtime. While some make personal phone calls and others surf the Internet, the guys featured in a new spot for Nextel created by TBWA/Chiat/Day, New York, and directed by Jim Jenkins of bicoastal/international Hungry Man are shown taking a more cardiovascular approach: They hold a dance party right in their office.
CS Lee, Brian McCaskill, Owen Burke and Doud Heida were the principal actors in this spot. The SAG/AFTRA Commercials Contract Standing Committee has granted a waiver to allow commercials to be available for viewing on SHOOTonline.com. The spots cannot be copied, downloaded or e-mailed.
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CLIENT
Nextel.
PRODUCTION CO.
Hungry Man, bicoastal/international.
Jim Jenkins, director; Tim Ives, DP; Steve Orent and Dan Duffy, executive producers; Ralph Laucella, producer. Shot on location in Fort Wayne, N.J.
AGENCY
TBWA/Chiat/Day, New York.
Gerry Graf, executive creative director; Scott Vitrone, creative director/art director; Ian Reichenthal, creative director/copywriter; Nathy Aviram, senior producer.
EDITORIAL
MacKenzie Cutler, New York.
Dave Koza, editor; Mona Salma, assistant editor, Melissa Miller, executive producer.
POST
Schmigital, New York.
Matt Monson, online editor.
Company 3, New York.
Tim Masick, colorist; Luana Ayres, producer.
AUDIO POST
Sound Lounge, New York.
Philip Loeb, mixer.
8 Aspiring DPs Receive Emerging Cinematographer Awards
The International Cinematographers Guild (ICG, IATSE Local 600) presented eight aspiring DPs with 2024 Emerging Cinematographer Awards (ECA) during a ceremony, screening and reception held on Sunday (9/29) in the Television Academy’s Wolf Theatre at the Saban Media Center in North Hollywood.
Also during the ECA proceedings, Rodrigo Prieto, ASC, AMC accepted the Distinguished Filmmaker Award. Prieto is a four-time Best Cinematography Oscar nominee--for Ang Lee’s Brokeback Mountain, and Martin Scorsese’s Silence, The Irishman and Killers of the Flower Moon.
In his opening awards ceremony remarks, Stephen Poster, ASC--who co-chairs the Guild’s ECA committee with Jimmy Matlosz--estimated that over the 26 years of the ECA, more than 200 up-and-coming lensers have garnered invaluable exposure and recognition early on in their careers. Submissions are open to Local 600 members who are not yet classified as DPs, and a panel of established ICG members from across the country assess the short film entries. The competition has intensified over the past two-plus decades. This year’s eight honorees and their short films were selected from 118 submissions.
The class of 2024 ECA honorees are:
–Dominic Bartolone for the short film Sweet Santa Barbara Brown
–Adam Carboni, INCOMPLETE
–Matthew Halla, The Unreachable Star
–Jessica Hershatter, Pirandello on Broadway
–Allen Ho, Iron Lung
–Nick Mahar, Sands of Fate
–Dylan Trivette, Bearing Witness: A Name & A Voice
–Andrew Trost, Bloom
These emerging cinematographers benefited from more than just the Sunday showcase in North... Read More