Production company B-Reel has brought veteran producer Michael McQuhae on board as executive producer and managing director. He will be running B-Reel Commercials together with managing director/exec producer Susan Rued Anderson.
McQuhae brings over 15 years of producing experience to B-Reel, including most recently a decade-long run as executive producer at HSI Productions.
Prior to HSI, McQuhae has worked at Propaganda, FM Rocks and Believe Media, producing award-winning jobs for high-profile directors, including Simon Cole, Brett Ratner, Joseph Kahn, Chris Applebaum, Ryan Ebner, and Michael Haussman.
Pelle Nilsson, founding partner at B-Reel said that McQuhae strengthens and solidifies the company's production team in Los Angeles. With offices in L.A., New York City, London, Barcelona, Berlin and Stockholm, B-Reel is an international production company with three divisions: Commercials and Branded Content, Digital, and Feature Films.
B-Reel Commercials' directorial roster includes: Drake Doremus, Anders Hallberg, Filip Tellander, Miles Jay, Steven Tsuchida, Josh Miller, Kief Davidson, Patrik Bergh, Tom Malmros, Emil Moller, Johan Perjus, Jens Sjรถgren, Anders Forsman, Mikael Marcimain and Jon+Torey.
Writers of “Conclave,” “Say Nothing” Win Scripter Awards
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