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    Kidane Upped At Blue Rock

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    Sewra G. Kidane, formerly of Raw Talent, New York, has been upped to editor at Blue Rock Editing Company, New York. Raw Talent is a division of Blue Rock that handles up-and-coming editors.

    Kidane joined Raw Talent as an assistant editor in 1998, and has worked on commercials for clients such as Ames, Pantene, Lever 2000 and Kleenex. Additionally, she has cut music videos for Maxwell, Room Service and Joey John. The editor started in postproduction as an apprentice, then assistant editor, at Blue Rock. While an assistant at Blue Rock, she worked closely with editor Peter Klaus on several projects, including a spot package for Salomon Smith Barney. In addition to cutting commercials, Kidane hopes to continue working on music videos.

    Kidane joins a Blue Rock roster of Avid editors which includes Steve Bodner, Michael Charles, David Cornman, Lenny Friedman, Maciek Godlewski, Ilene Hochman, Reb Kessler, Peter Klaus, Laura Milstein, Richard Morse, Brent Prince, Oren Sarch, Nico Sheers, Chip Smith, Gregg Suskin, Elaine Volpe, Oliver Wicki and bicoastal editors Sylvette Artinian and Sloane Klevin, all of whom are repped by company president Ethel Rubinstein and Blue Rock head of sales Corey Fenstermacher.

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    Writers of “Conclave,” “Say Nothing” Win Scripter Awards

    Sunday, February 23, 2025

    The authors and screenwriters behind the film “Conclave” and the series “Say Nothing” won the 37th-annual USC Libraries Scripter Awards during a black-tie ceremony at USC’s Town and Gown ballroom on Saturday evening (2/22).

    The Scripter Awards recognize the year’s 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 “Conclave.”

    In accepting the award, Straughan said, “Adaptation is a really strange process, you’re very much the servant of two masters. In a way it’s an act of betrayal of one master for the other.” He joked that “You start off with a book that you love, you read it again and again, and then you end up throwing it over your shoulder,” crediting author Robert Harris for being “so kind, so generous, so open throughout.”

    In the episodic series category, Joshua Zetumer and Patrick Radden Keefe won for the episode “The People in the Dirt” from the limited series “Say Nothing,” which Zetumer adapted from Keefe’s nonfiction book about the Troubles in Ireland.

    Zetumer referenced this year’s extraordinary group of Scripter finalists, saying “projects like these reminded me of why I wanted to become a writer when I was sitting in USC’s 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.”

    Special guest for the evening, actress and producer Jennifer Beals, shared her thoughts on the impact of libraries. “If ever you are at a loss wondering if there is good in the world,” she said, “you have only to go to a... Read More

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