Mirror Films, the Hollywood shop headed by exec producer/owner Eric Barrett, has expanded its directorial roster, adding Greg Pritikin and Robin Hays. The company has also secured Lorraine Schreyer as its director of production.
Feature filmmaker Pritikin’s credits include Dummy starring Adrien Brody, Illeana Douglas and Milla Jovovich. Recently, Pritikin stepped into the digital limelight for directing season two of the IKEA webseries Easy To Assemble starring Douglas, Jeff Goldblum, Jane Lynch, Justine Bateman and Harry Shearer, among others. Douglas created the comedy success which has garnered 5.1 million views and counting.
Pritikin’s first film, the cult favorite Totally Confused, and his latest film Surviving Eden, a satire about reality TV, both comedies, share a sensibility that deals with, in the writer/director’s words, “small triumphs by small people. I like to take actors out of their comfort zone; putting a serious actor in a comedic role creates a challenge for both the actor and the director. And, it’s often funnier to play out the reality of a funny situation than just play a funny part.”
Pritikin is currently in postproduction on a TV pilot called Monster of the House, that he wrote and directed, produced by Allan Loeb. Pritikin has been hired to direct a horror film for producer Joel Silver at Warner Brothers as well as a drama starring Disney’s Wizards of Waverly Place star, David Henrie.
Robin Hays
Also joining the roster at Mirror Films is Robin Hays who earned inclusion into SHOOT‘s 2009 New Directors Showcase. Her body of work includes a series of web spots for Honda’s “Blue Skies For Our Children” campaign. The ambitious project consists of 15 short films which feature children speaking about the planet and our future. The films were completely unscripted and unrehearsed. Each piece is built into the fabric of the website where animated flowers each reveal a story. The work garnered Silver at the 2009 Digital Marketing Awards.
Among Hays’ other credits are spots for clients Visa, Bank of Montreal, adidas, and Dr.Oekter.
She and Pritikin join a Mirror directorial roster that includes Kevin Kerslake, Doug Walker, Chris Woods, Mark Williams, Louis Pascal Couvelaire and Bobby Montero.
Lorraine Schreyer
Director of production Schreyer comes over to Mirror from the agency side at Ogilvy West where she produced projects for clients Cisco, Mattel, and BP/ampm. As head of Ogilvy’s in-house production studio, she supervised production of broadcast TV, web content, editorial and VFX.
Schreyer brings to Mirror an extensive background as a line producer on commercials, music videos and long-form videos. With independent features in New York as her training ground, she landed a gig at NBC’s Saturday Night Live and quickly rose through the ranks of production working at Epoch Films and Marcus Nispel’s Portfolio Artists Network. Schreyer would spend the next seven years in Los Angeles, working for production companies such as HSI, RSA, DNA and A Band Apart. She has produced videos for top artists Justin Timberlake, Avril Lavigne, Christina Aguilera and Kanye West, among others, and commercials for brands like McDonald’s, Chrysler, Sprite.
Mirror is repped by Kim Griswold and Doug Sherin of Options in the West and Texas, Reelize Reps in the Midwest, and Michael Eha on the East Coast.
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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