Original has signed director/cameraman Mark Dektor for exclusive representation in the U.S. Dektor has been directing for 12 years, following a successful career as a DP. His credits include American Express, Dove, Suave and Fisher Price, and much of his work involves real people, often in testimonial or documentary style scenarios.
Dektor previously directed via Cartel and its longstanding predecessor shop Dektor Film, a company founded by his father, two-time DGA Award-winning commercial director Leslie Dektor.
Mark Dektor has established a distinct directorial style characterized by engaging, performances, beautiful photography and well thought out art direction. The naturalness of the performances lend his spots an easy charm.
“I spend a lot of time in casting and I work very hard to make people feel comfortable so that their personalities come through in the work,” Dektor explained.
In 2010, Dektor was contracted by Ogilvy & Mather to shoot a segment of a 10-minute film in support of Chicago’s bid for the 2016 Olympics. One focuses on an inner city youth who finds an outlet for his anger in wrestling and through his relationship with his coach.
Dektor said that his decision to join Original, was based on the opportunities Original offers to broaden his career both in commercials and in other media.
Original is led by executive producers Bruce Mellon, Joe Piccirillo and Marc Lasko and maintains production offices in Los Angeles and New York City. The company’s postproduction division, headed by Jonathan Del Gatto, provides editorial, design, graphics and visual effects services.
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