Michel Waxman of MBW Represents, Venice, Calif., has been named to handle the West Coast for Santa Monica-based production house TWC, headed by its three cofounders, executive producers Mark Thomas and Ralph Winter, and director Philip Cooke….The newly formed Socket Films (see Street Talk this week) has lined up its sales force consisting of independent reps Cathi Connor and Mike Richter of The Connor Group who will handle the Midwest, Sherry Howell of Howell & Associates on the West Coast, and Phil McIntyre and Mike Lobikis of PGM Artists on the East Coast…..Hank (www.hankmusic.tv), the online project manager and music supervisor service launched by Sarah Gavigan of Ten Music, Venice, Calif., has signed several new labels–New Line Records, Better Looking Records, Ninja Tune and The Control Group….DP Curtis Wehr has returned to Innovative Artists, Santa Monica, for representation and is currently available for spots and features….
Writers of “Conclave,” “Say Nothing” Win Scripter Awards
The authors and screenwriters behind the film “Conclave” and the series “Say Nothing” won the 37th-annual USC Libraries Scripter Awards during a black-tie ceremony at USC’s Town and Gown ballroom on Saturday evening (2/22).
The Scripter Awards recognize the year’s 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 “Conclave.”
In accepting the award, Straughan said, “Adaptation is a really strange process, you’re very much the servant of two masters. In a way it’s an act of betrayal of one master for the other.” He joked that “You start off with a book that you love, you read it again and again, and then you end up throwing it over your shoulder,” crediting author Robert Harris for being “so kind, so generous, so open throughout.”
In the episodic series category, Joshua Zetumer and Patrick Radden Keefe won for the episode “The People in the Dirt” from the limited series “Say Nothing,” which Zetumer adapted from Keefe’s nonfiction book about the Troubles in Ireland.
Zetumer referenced this year’s extraordinary group of Scripter finalists, saying “projects like these reminded me of why I wanted to become a writer when I was sitting in USC’s 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.”
Special guest for the evening, actress and producer Jennifer Beals, shared her thoughts on the impact of libraries. “If ever you are at a loss wondering if there is good in the world,” she said, “you have only to go to a... Read More