Account executive Connie Calhoun has joined hdstudios in Farmington Hills, Mich. She most recently served as executive producer/sales for Mindfield Pictures and Silo Post in Detroit. Her new roost, hdstudios, is a division of Grace & Wild Inc., headquartered in Farmington Hills…. DPs Steve Gainer, ASC, and Patrick McGowan have joined the Stacy Cheriff Agency, Los Angeles…Agent Jeannine Angelique, formerly with Stacy Cheriff Agency, has joined Beverly Hills-headquartered Paradigm commercials and music video operation where she will team with Pattie Lofton to rep DPs and production designers. Angelique is bringing into the Paradigm fold DPs Sergio Arguello, Scott Buttfield, David Kalvert, Joseph Labisi, Eric Larson, Joe Maxwell, Tom McGrath, Michael Ozier, Dave Perkal, Adam Santelli, Kevin Sarnoff, Checco Varese and Colin Watkinson, as well as production designers David Courtemarche, Justin Dragonas, Brock Houghton, Alexander Pacion, Tozar Simich and Teri Whittaker….DP Mike Trim has wrapped this season of Showtime TV series Weeds and is again available for commercials and music videos through the Montana Artists Agency, Los Angeles….
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