Recently formed, New York-based live-action production house Nola Pictures has added director Juan Delcan to its roster. He last served in a creative director/director capacity at Spontaneous Combustion, New York.
Among Delcan’s clients have been AT&T, Coca-Cola, Ikea, Maybelline, PBS and Verizon. He has an extensive background in broadcast design with credits that include promos and station IDs for the likes of NBC, CBS and ESPN. Over the years, Delcan’s work has garnered such honors as a London International Advertising and Design Award, gold and silver at the Broadcast Designers’ Association (BDA) Awards, and a Telly Award.
U2 took notice of Delcan’s prowess in design and illustration, commissioning his work to be animated and to serve as a backdrop for the artists’ live performance of the hit song “Yahweh” on the 2005 Vertigo tour.
Educated in Madrid, Delcan studied architecture at Superior Architecture School there. After a year with a small architecture firm in Madrid, he branched out into drawing storyboards, one of which helped a commercial production house land a job. In 1987, he started freelancing regularly as a storyboard artist in Spain and later began directing, establishing himself in the market.
In ’95, Delcan came to Southern California for a creative director/director position at now defunct design house Pittard Sullivan. At the end of ’98, he moved to New York to take on the same dual role at Lee Hunt Associates (which later became Razorfish). Then in late ’99, Delcan returned to the West Coast as a creative director/director at production company V12, Santa Monica. In ’03, he went over to Spontaneous Combustion.
He now joins a directors’ lineup at Nola Pictures consisting of Kim Dempster, Rick Knief, Kenny Morrison and Jerry Simpson. Nola is headed by executive producer Charlie Curran, formerly of Crossroads, bicoastal and Chicago.
DGA Feature Nominees: Audiard, Baker, Berger, Corbet and Mangold
The field of feature nominees for the Directors Guild of America (DGA) Awards spanning two categories is set. Nominated for the DGA honor for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film for 2024 are: Jacques Audiard for Emilia Pérez, Sean Baker for Anora, Edward Berger for Conclave, Brady Corbet for The Brutalist, and James Mangold for A Complete Unknown.
The DGA also revealed the nominees for the Michael Apted Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in First-Time Theatrical Feature Film. The first-time narrative feature directors are: Payal Kapadia for All We Imagine as Light, Megan Park for My Old Ass, RaMell Ross for Nickel Boys, Halfdan Ullman Tondel for Armand, and Sean Wang for Diddy.
“2024 has been a truly extraordinary year for storytelling--and today’s nominees have created audacious and unique films that expand the possibilities of cinematic excellence,” said DGA president Lesli Linka Glatter. “I am thrilled to congratulate all our nominated directors for their brilliant work, which is visionary, inspirational and speaks to the depth of the human experience. To be chosen by one’s peers is the true marker of outstanding directorial achievement and what makes these nominations so very special.”
The winners will be announced at the 77th Annual DGA Awards on Saturday, February 8.
Here’s a fuller rundown of the nominees in both DGA Award categories:
THEATRICAL FEATURE FILM
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film for 2024 (in alphabetical order):
JACQUES AUDIARD
Emilia Pérez
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