Bicoastal production house Rabbit, which finished 9th in the 2011 Cannes Palme d’Or derby, has secured Lisa Houck of indepedent rep firm Salon, LA, to handle the West Coast….Santa Monica-based visual effects/post/graphic design house Planet Blue has tabbed Char Noonan and his indie rep firm Char & Associates to handle sales worldwide….Chris Miller has joined Harpoon Pictures as director of new business development. Miller previously ran sales and marketing for commercial production companies Highway 61 and Bridge Street Films….TidalTV, a video advertising, optimization and yield management solutions provider, has made three new hires in its New York office. Christa Rimonneau joins TidalTV as senior sales director, East Coast, reporting to VP of advertising sales Brian Danzis. Rimonneau previously worked as sales director at Adconion Media Group, and has held sales positions at Dailymotion and CNN.com. Caren Wachtenheim has been named sales account executive at TidalTV where she is responsible for network sales. Prior to TidalTV, she worked as a senior account executive at totallyher, a division of Gorilla Nation & Evolve Media. She has also held positions at First30Days, Inc. and FOX Interactive Media. And Brett Tabano comes to TidalTV as director of sales strategy. He will be responsible for analysis of key business issues impacting the online video industry. Prior to TidalTV, Tabano held account management positions at Demand Media, Priceline and Tribal DDB….
DGA Feature Nominees: Audiard, Baker, Berger, Corbet and Mangold
The field of feature nominees for the Directors Guild of America (DGA) Awards spanning two categories is set. Nominated for the DGA honor for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film for 2024 are: Jacques Audiard for Emilia Pérez, Sean Baker for Anora, Edward Berger for Conclave, Brady Corbet for The Brutalist, and James Mangold for A Complete Unknown.
The DGA also revealed the nominees for the Michael Apted Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in First-Time Theatrical Feature Film. The first-time narrative feature directors are: Payal Kapadia for All We Imagine as Light, Megan Park for My Old Ass, RaMell Ross for Nickel Boys, Halfdan Ullman Tondel for Armand, and Sean Wang for Diddy.
“2024 has been a truly extraordinary year for storytelling--and today’s nominees have created audacious and unique films that expand the possibilities of cinematic excellence,” said DGA president Lesli Linka Glatter. “I am thrilled to congratulate all our nominated directors for their brilliant work, which is visionary, inspirational and speaks to the depth of the human experience. To be chosen by one’s peers is the true marker of outstanding directorial achievement and what makes these nominations so very special.”
The winners will be announced at the 77th Annual DGA Awards on Saturday, February 8.
Here’s a fuller rundown of the nominees in both DGA Award categories:
THEATRICAL FEATURE FILM
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film for 2024 (in alphabetical order):
JACQUES AUDIARD
Emilia Pérez
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