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Joey Santiago, lead guitarist of the post-punk band The Pixies, has joined bicoastal Elias Arts as a featured artist, working exclusively in TV commercials. Santiago will serve as a composer and a creative director on spots; he will work out of Elias, New York….Ten Music, Venice, Calif., has signed independent music label Polyvinyl, based in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. Per the deal, Ten will represent Polyvinyl’s extensive catalog for opportunities in traditional and nontraditional advertising media. Ten plans to pursue licenses and other extended branded opportunities for Polyvinyl…..Hum, Santa Monica, has wrapped a three-spot Lexus campaign–“Goosebumps,” “Debut” and “Robots”–directed by Victor Garcia of bicoastal/international MJZ for Team One USA, El Segundo, Calif. Jeff Koz served as creative director for Hum, with David Norland as composer, Dan Hart as sound designer, and Debbi Landon the executive producer…..DeWolfe Music, New York, recently contributed an entire game’s worth of music for 2K Games’ “Hummer Badlands” for Xbox. The intense in-game action is scored with more than 10 DeWolfe tracks….POP Sound, Santa Monica, created sound design and performed a 5.1 mix for a new theatrical and HD TV spot for Coca-Cola that takes audiences along on a magical ride with a boy on a bicycle. POP Sound’s Peter Rincon helmed the mix for the spot, titled “Parade,” which was directed by Dante Ariola of MJZ for Wieden+Kennedy (W+K), Portland, Ore., and Amsterdam–W+K, Portland, and its in-house Joint Editorial recently worked with audio engineer Craig Helmholz of Crescendo! Studios, San Francisco, on :60 and :30 spots titled “Bullets” for Electric Arts’ new game Black. Helmholz also mixed a :30 and :60 for Electronic Arts’ game The Godfather, also via W+K. Additionally, Helmholz worked with Hispanic agency Dieste Harmel & Partners, Dallas, on radio and TV commercials for Kingsford Charcoal and TV spots for Glad……Category:News
The Hottest Ticket At Sundance: Writer-Director Mary Bronstein’s “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You”
Rose Byrne plays a mother in the midst of a breakdown in the experiential psychological thriller "If I Had Legs I'd Kick You."
Anticipation was high for the A24 film, which will be released sometime this year. Its premiere Friday at the Sundance Film Festival was easily the hottest ticket in town, with even ticketholders unable to get in. Those who did make it into the Library theater were treated to an intense, visceral, inventive story from filmmaker Mary Bronstein that has quickly become one of the festival's must-sees.
Byrne plays Linda, who is barely hanging on while managing her daughter's mysterious illness. She's faced with crisis after crisis, big and small — from the massive, gaping hole in their apartment ceiling that forces them to move to a dingy motel, to an escalating showdown with a parking attendant at a care center. The cracks in her psychological, emotional and physical wellbeing are become too much to bear.
"I'd never seen a movie before where a mother is going through a crisis with a child but our energy is not with the child's struggle, it's with the mother's," Bronstein said at the premiere. "If you're a caretaker, you shouldn't be bothering with yourself at all. It should all be about the person you're taking care of, right? And that is a particular kind of emotional burnout state that I was really interested in exploring."
Byrne and Bronstein went deep in the preparation phase, having long discussions about Linda with the goal of making her as real as possible before the quick, 27-day shoot. Byrne said she was obsessed with figuring out who Linda was before the crisis. The film was in part inspired by Bronstein's experience with her own daughter, but she didn't want to elaborate on the... Read More
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