New York-based editorial house earth2mars has welcomed editors Christopher Koons, formerly of New York-based mad.house; and J.P. Cadaveira, who had been freelancing. Koons’ work has included spots for Prego, Haagen Dazs, Burger King, Colgate, Mennen, and W Hotels, as well as an impressionistic film for art photographer David Bradford, and a short, Today I Found Out, helmed by director/actor Griffin Dunne. Cadeveira has freelanced in New York and Miami, cutting spots for Sony, Toyota, Gatorade, and Canon; the editor also brings long form experience for PBS, Discovery and others….New York post boutique Mad.house appointed Cagan Yuksel to the position of senior designer. Cagan joins the company following the completion of his second graphics Masters degree and his recent work at New York-based post house Creative Bubble…..New York-based Chemistry has added editor Hannah Neufeld to its creative team. Neufeld moves to the company from New York-based wild(child) Editorial, where she spent the last five years. Her commercial work has included spots for 3M with Grey Worldwide, Absolut with McCann, and Old Navy Hispanic and Heineken Hispanic with The Vidal Partnership. She also worked with del Rivero Messianu DDB on Hispanic campaigns for Budweiser and Bud Lite….Commercial and music video colorist Clive Christopher is a new senior colorist at Manhattan Transfer Miami. He comes from Prime Focus in Mumbai, and his experiences having included working at London’s The Moving Picture Company and SVC, Los Angeles area companies Complete Post and now-closed Pacific Ocean Post, the since shuttered Editel Chicago, and Molinare in Madrid–Micah Scarpelli has been promoted from assistant editor to staff editor at New York-based Version 2–Bicoastal Post Logic Studios has hired colorist Doug Delaney, who was one of three colorists supervised by DI supervisor Peter Doyle and cinematographer Andrew Lesnie, ASC for the DI of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. Since then, Delaney has completed digital intermediates for titles including Yours, Mine and Ours with cinematographer Theo van de Sande, ASC; and The Ring 2 with director Hideo Nakata. Delaney also worked closely with Allen Daviau, ASC, grading the StEM (Standard Test Evaluation Material) test footage for the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) and Digital Cinema Initiatives (DCI)–New York-based graphic design and postproduction studio Creative Bubble announced the addition of Lisa Kwon to its roster. Formerly of New York-based mad.house, Kwon will serve as Creative Bubble’s design director…..Mary O’Gara has joined Chicago-based Filmworkers Club as executive producer. She previously served as director of telecine and visual effects at Company 3 in Santa Monica. O’Gara brings more than 10 years of postproduction experience to her new position. Prior to Company 3, she served as finishing producer and operation manager at Company 3’s sister post house R!OT, Santa Monica…New York-based Freestyle Collective announced the addition of Elizabeth Kiehner as executive producer. Formerly of bicoastal Trollbäck + Company, Kiehner brings experience as a producer for both the broadcast and commercial industries. Prior to Trollbäck, Kiehner produced at L.A.-based Suissa Miller Advertising and Chicago’s EURO RSCG Tatham— Gene Curley has been promoted from night colorist to day colorist at Nice Shoes, New York. Matt Rosenblum of Nice Shoes was recently upped from assistant colorist to night colorist…..Jonathan Airale and Juan Zorn have been promoted from assistant colorists to final colorists at Bobine Video, Santa Monica….
Martin Scorsese On “The Saints,” Faith In Filmmaking and His Next Movie
When Martin Scorsese was a child growing up in New York's Little Italy, he would gaze up at the figures he saw around St. Patrick's Old Cathedral. "Who are these people? What is a saint?" Scorsese recalls. "The minute I walk out the door of the cathedral and I don't see any saints. I saw people trying to behave well within a world that was very primal and oppressed by organized crime. As a child, you wonder about the saints: Are they human?" For decades, Scorsese has pondered a project dedicated to the saints. Now, he's finally realized it in "Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints," an eight-part docudrama series debuting Sunday on Fox Nation, the streaming service from Fox News Media. The one-hour episodes, written by Kent Jones and directed by Elizabeth Chomko, each chronicle a saint: Joan of Arc, Francis of Assisi, John the Baptist, Thomas Becket, Mary Magdalene, Moses the Black, Sebastian and Maximillian Kolbe. Joan of Arc kicks off the series on Sunday, with three weekly installments to follow; the last four will stream closer to Easter next year. In naturalistic reenactments followed by brief Scorsese-led discussions with experts, "The Saints" emphasizes that, yes, the saints were very human. They were flawed, imperfect people, which, to Scorsese, only heightens their great sacrifices and gestures of compassion. The Polish priest Kolbe, for example, helped spread antisemitism before, during WWII, sheltering Jews and, ultimately, volunteering to die in the place of a man who had been condemned at Auschwitz. Scorsese, who turns 82 on Sunday, recently met for an interview not long after returning from a trip to his grandfather's hometown in Sicily. He was made an honorary citizen and the experience was still lingering in his mind. Remarks have... Read More