Bicoastal production house Original (formerly Original Film) has partnered with noted editor/director Jonathan Del Gatto who will serve as creative director of its newly formed postproduction division. Plans call for the new post venture to offer services spanning editorial, design, motion graphics, visual effects and animation for broadcast advertising, branded content and other forms of visual media.
In addition to heading up the post division, Del Gatto will be available as a director and editor. In his first project under the Original banner, he directed and cut The Ambassadors of Wow, a series of web videos for Jamba Juice and The Neighbor Agency, Los Angeles.
Del Gatto, who has been a commercial editor for more than 15 years, arrives from Foundation Content where he expanded into directing. His work there included web-based video series for United Airlines and real estate developer Del Webb. He also directed and edited two music videos for Matt & Kim. One of those clips, “Cameras,” earned inclusion earlier this year (1/28) into SHOOT‘s The Best Work You May Never See gallery.
Del Gatto’s background includes seven years at Terminal Media, an editorial house he founded, and eight years at Red Car. He also had tenures at 89 Editorial and Butcher prior to joining Foundation Content.
Over the years, Del Gatto’s work as an editor has received eight AICP Show honors, seven Clios and seven London International Awards. In 2009, he edited while at Butcher a 30-minute film, created by Minneapolis agency Barrie D’Rozario Murphy for the Chambers Hotel, that won a Gold Lion at the Cannes International Advertising Festival and was honored in the Next Experiential category of the ’09 AICP Next Awards. (The “Chambers Video Art Piece” was directed by Peter Nydrle of production house Nydrle.) In addition to his advertising work which includes such clients as Budweiser, Sony, Nike, Chevy, Coca-cola, Coors and Lexus, Del Gatto has extensive experience in feature films, documentaries, music videos and shorts.
Del Gatto said that he plans to develop Original’s post division into a state-of-the-art digital production studio. “As advertising media continues to expand into web and mobile platforms, the production industry is becoming increasingly post-centric,” he observed. “We plan to capitalize on that trend by offering a way to develop projects in creative, smart and modern ways.”
Original has production offices in Culver City, California and New York City.
“Overnight Success” Has Been More Than A Decade In The Making For Meghann Fahy and Eve Hewson
Meghann Fahy and Eve Hewson, two of the stars of Netflix's whodunit "The Perfect Couple," have news for you if you want to call them breakouts: They've been working in this business for more than a decade.
Fahy made her TV debut in 2009 in an episode of "Gossip Girl." Hewson's first big film role was in 2011's "This Must Be the Place." They do concede, however, that it's recent TV roles — "The White Lotus" for Fahy and "Bad Sisters" for Hewson — that have led to new frontiers of opportunity.
Susanne Bier, who directed "The Perfect Couple," says both Fahy and Hewson are "going to be big stars."
"They certainly have proper, profound star quality, Both of them in very different ways," Bier says. "Both are incredibly creative, incredibly smart, and also have a impressive insight as to who they are. You can be a great actor or actress and not necessarily really know who you are yourself. And they do."
Hewson, 33, whose dad is U2 front man Bono, may have grown up in a famous family but she's now in demand in her own right. She will next be seen in a second season of "Bad Sisters, " out in November. She's in Noah Baumbach's next film, alongside Adam Sandler, George Clooney and Riley Keough. She's also been cast in Steven Spielberg's next production and is set to star opposite Murray Bartlett in a racing series for Hulu.
Fahy, 34, is in production on a limited series with Julianne Moore and Milly Alcock called "Sirens," written by Molly Smith Metzler ("Maid") for Netflix. She also has two films in the can with Josh O'Connor ("The Crown," "Challengers") and Brandon Sklenar ("It Ends With Us").
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