Stockholm-based animation house FilmTecknarna has garnered new spot and music video representation in the U.K.
Stockholm-based animation house FilmTecknarna has garnered new spot and music video representation in the U.K. for several of its directors via HSI London. HSI will handle all FilmTecknarna directors except for Jonas Odell and Johanna Andersson who continue to be repped in England by Nexus Productions, London….Amy Zale of bicoastal/international @radical.media has been promoted to East Coast sales agent for the company….Foundation Post, Chicago, has secured independent firm Hilly Reps, Chicago, to handle the Midwest…..Musikvergnuegen, the Hollywood-based music production/audio branding house, has brought account exec Andria Ellis on board. She will be active in marketing, PR and handle West Coast sales both for Musikvergnuegen and its production music library division Beyond….MassiveMusic, New York and Amsterdam, has signed Ezra Burke as its West Coast rep….Jeff Lewis of Encino, Calif.-based TDN Artists has signed DP Jamie Rosenberg for feature and spot representation. Rosenberg just wrapped a shoot for MJZ director Marcus Nispel….Production designer José E. Montaño has joined The Skouras Agency, Santa Monica, for exclusive representation….Having wrapped his first feature–Cleaner directed by Renny Harlin–production designer Richard Berg is again available for spots and music videos through Orlando Management, Sherman Oaks, Calif…..
Review: Writer-Director Andrea Arnold’s “Bird”
"Is it too real for ya?" blares in the background of Andrea Arnold's latest film, "Bird," a 12-year-old Bailey (Nykiya Adams) rides with her shirtless, tattoo-covered dad, Bug (Barry Keoghan), on his electric scooter past scenes of poverty in working-class Kent.
The song's question — courtesy of the Irish post-punk band Fontains D.C. — is an acute one for "Bird." Arnold's films ( "American Honey," "Fish Tank") are rigorous in their gritty naturalism. Her fiction films — this is her first in eight years — tend toward bleak, hand-held verité in rough-and-tumble real-world locations. Her last film, "Cow," documented a mother cow separated from her calf on a dairy farm.
Arnold specializes in capturing souls, human and otherwise, in soulless environments. A dream of something more is tantalizing just out of reach. In "American Honey," peace comes to Star (Sasha Lane) only when she submerges underwater.
In "Bird," though, this sense of otherworldly possibility is made flesh, or at least feathery. After a confusing night, Bailey awakens in a field where she encounters a strange figure in a skirt ( Franz Rogowski ) who arrives, like Mary Poppins, with a gust a wind. His name, he says, is Bird. He has a soft sweetness that doesn't otherwise exist in Bailey's hardscrabble and chaotic life.
She's skeptical of him at first, but he keeps lurking about, hovering gull-like on rooftops. He cranes his neck now and again like he's watching out for Bailey. And he does watch out for her, helping Bailey through a hard coming of age: the abusive boyfriend (James Nelson-Joyce) of her mother (Jasmine Jobson); her half brother (Jason Buda) slipping into vigilante violence; her father marrying a new girlfriend.
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