Finger Music & Sound Design has secured Martin Cloutier as its exclusive rep in Canada. Based in Montreal, Cloutier has worked in a wide range of fields related to development in the music/entertainment industry, most recently redefining the musical direction of radio channel Espace Musique for crown corporation Radio-Canada/CBC. Previously, Cloutier consulted for music channels owned by Astral Media, Canada's largest private broadcaster, and headed campaigns for indie record label Audiogram….Frank Salvino has joined CSS Studios as director of feature film business development. Salvino will service existing feature film clients and seek to develop new sales for companies within the CSS Studios group, including Soundelux, Todd-AO, Sound One, Modern Music and POP Sound. He will report to Jeffrey Eisner, sr VP, feature film and television business development. Salvino brings to CSS nearly 20 years of experience as a post supervisor, including nine years at New Line Cinema where he held the title VP, feature post production. He has worked as a freelance post production supervisor for the past two years. His more than two dozen film credits include Hall Pass, Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, 17 Again and Pride and Glory….Dave Payette has joined Snell as global sales director. Payette will lead Snell's worldwide sales effort, overseeing operations in the U.K., France, Germany, Spain, Russia, Lebanon, India, Hong Kong, China, and the U.S. which deliver technology solutions and services to broadcast and media customers in over 100 countries. He will spearhead strategic initiatives through direct and indirect channels around the globe in support of Snell's continued growth and geographic expansion. Payette will be based in Reading, U.K., and report to Simon Derry, Snell CEO….
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