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.
Kamala Harris Receives Chairman’s Prize At NAACP Image Awards
Former Vice President Kamala Harris stepped on the NAACP Image Awards stage Saturday night with a sobering message, calling the civil rights organization a pillar of the Black community and urging people to stay resilient and hold onto their faith during the tenure of President Donald Trump.
"While we have no illusions about what we are up against in this chapter in our American story, this chapter will be written not simply by whoever occupies the oval office nor by the wealthiest among us," Harris said after receiving the NAACP's Chairman's Award. "The American story will be written by you. Written by us. By we the people."
The 56th annual Image Awards was held at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in the Los Angeles area.
Harris, defeated by Trump in last year's presidential election, was the first woman and the first person of color to serve as vice president. She had previously been a U.S. senator from California and the state's attorney general.
In her first major public appearance since leaving office, Harris did not reference her election loss or Trump's actions since entering the Oval Office, although Trump mocked her earlier in the day at the Conservative Political Action Conference.
Harris spoke about eternal vigilance, the price of liberty, staying alert, seeking the truth and America's future.
"Some see the flames on our horizons, the rising waters in our cities, the shadows gathering over our democracy and ask 'What do we do now?'" Harris said. "But we know exactly what to do, because we have done it before. And we will do it again. We use our power. We organize, mobilize. We educate. We advocate. Our power has never come from having an easy path."
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