Lauren Bleiweiss has been hired as executive producer at creative editorial house Final Cut New York. She had been exec producer of music/sound house Human where she was involved in developing the brand as well as extending the company’s global reach with additional offices in London and Los Angeles. She oversaw assorted notable jobs for Human, spanning such clients as Coca-Cola, Nike, Stella, American Express, Jameson, UPS and Fanta.
Prior to Human, Bleiweiss worked at Zander Reps, representing such companies as Backyard and Brand New School.
Final Cut maintains offices in New York, L.A. and London. New York editors include Ashley Kreamer, JD Smyth, Jeff Buchanan, Michael Dart Wadsworth, Patrick Colman, Sarah Iben, Sonejuhi Siniha, Stephane Dumonceau. Final Cut’s talent roster also sports sound designer Terressa Tate.
Martin Scorsese On “The Saints,” Faith In Filmmaking and His Next Movie
When Martin Scorsese was a child growing up in New York's Little Italy, he would gaze up at the figures he saw around St. Patrick's Old Cathedral. "Who are these people? What is a saint?" Scorsese recalls. "The minute I walk out the door of the cathedral and I don't see any saints. I saw people trying to behave well within a world that was very primal and oppressed by organized crime. As a child, you wonder about the saints: Are they human?" For decades, Scorsese has pondered a project dedicated to the saints. Now, he's finally realized it in "Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints," an eight-part docudrama series debuting Sunday on Fox Nation, the streaming service from Fox News Media. The one-hour episodes, written by Kent Jones and directed by Elizabeth Chomko, each chronicle a saint: Joan of Arc, Francis of Assisi, John the Baptist, Thomas Becket, Mary Magdalene, Moses the Black, Sebastian and Maximillian Kolbe. Joan of Arc kicks off the series on Sunday, with three weekly installments to follow; the last four will stream closer to Easter next year. In naturalistic reenactments followed by brief Scorsese-led discussions with experts, "The Saints" emphasizes that, yes, the saints were very human. They were flawed, imperfect people, which, to Scorsese, only heightens their great sacrifices and gestures of compassion. The Polish priest Kolbe, for example, helped spread antisemitism before, during WWII, sheltering Jews and, ultimately, volunteering to die in the place of a man who had been condemned at Auschwitz. Scorsese, who turns 82 on Sunday, recently met for an interview not long after returning from a trip to his grandfather's hometown in Sicily. He was made an honorary citizen and the experience was still lingering in his mind. Remarks have... Read More