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    Milk & Honey Links With Ultra Films, Mexico City

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    By MILLIE TAKAKI

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    Milk & Honey Production Services, headquartered in Los Angeles, has formed an alliance with Mexico City-based production services shop Ultra Films, which is under the aegis of president Jean-Michel Lacor. Per the deal, Ultra will oversee commercial shoots in Mexico for Milk & Honey’s ad agency and production company clients. Previously these spot projects were handled by Milk & Honey Films/Mexico, but that firm, headed by executive producer Jose Ludlow, now shifts its focus to feature, telefilm and miniseries production.

    Milk and Honey Production Services’ partner/executive producer Howard Woffinden explained that in order to "expand Milk & Honey’s commercial capabilities in Mexico and better serve our clients, we decided to separate commercial and longform responsibilities." He cited Lacor’s ties to Mexico’s filmmaking community and access to top crew and equipment. Ultra recently provided production support to such jobs as Pepsi’s "Goal" directed by Joe Pytka of Venice, Calif.-based PYTKA for BBDO New York; and "Qualcomm" for the telecommunications firm of the same name, directed by David Ramser of bicoastal/international The Artists Company.

    Conversely, Woffinden and Milk & Honey partner Greg Gold will represent Ultra stateside, expanding its North American reach. In addition to providing commercial production services, Ultra Films executive produces and produces features for the European and Mexican markets.

    Founded by partners/executive producers Woffinden, Gold and Tomas Krejci in ’96, Milk & Honey Films is an international entertainment company with two divisions. Milk & Honey Production Services; and Milk & Honey Pictures (MHP). The latter produces creative content for the feature, television, and home video markets. Meanwhile, Milk & Honey Production Services maintains offices in Prague, Montreal, Toronto, Mexico City, Moscow, Rome (through its alliance with Panorama Films) and London (through its alliance with First City Films), and orchestrates shoots for the feature film, television, commercial, and music video arenas.

    Among Milk & Honey Production Services’ latest endeavors was facilitating production in Prague for the new Timex i-Control watch campaign directed by Tim Burton via A Band Apart 35mm, Los Angeles, for Fallon, Minneapolis. One of those commercials, "Mannequin," was named a SHOOT "Top Spot" (6/9).

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    Steven Soderbergh Has A Multi-Faceted “Presence” In His Latest Film

    Wednesday, January 22, 2025

    Steven Soderbergh isn't just the director and cinematographer of his latest film. He's also, in a way, its central character.

    "Presence" is filmed entirely from the POV of a ghost inside a home a family has just moved into. Soderbergh, who serves as his own cinematographer under the pseudonym Peter Andrews (his father's name), essentially performs as the presence, a floating point-of-view that watches as the violence that killed the mysterious ghost threatens to be repeated.

    For even the prolific Soderbergh, the film, which opens Friday in theaters, was a unique challenge. He shot "Presence" with a small digital camera while wearing slippers to soften his steps.

    The 62-year-old filmmaker recently met a reporter in a midtown Manhattan hotel in between finishing post-production on his other upcoming movie ("Black Bag," a thriller Focus Features will release March 14) and beginning production in a few weeks on his next project, a romantic comedy that he says "feels like a George Cukor movie."

    Soderbergh, whose films include "Out of Sight," the "Ocean's 11" movies, "Magic Mike" and "Erin Brockovich," tends to do a lot in small windows of time. "Presence" took 11 days to film.

    That dexterous proficiency has made the ever-experimenting Soderbergh one of Hollywood's most widely respected evaluators of the movie business. In a wide-ranging conversation, he discussed why he thinks streaming is the most destructive force the movies have ever faced and why he's "the cockroach of this industry."

    Q: You use pseudonyms for yourself as a cinematographer and editor. Were you tempted to credit yourself as an actor for "Presence"?

    SODERBERGH: No, but what I did is subtle. For the first and... Read More

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