No Smoke, New York, has named Lori Youmans of Lori & Company to handle representation on the East Coast. Dave Dakich of Dbl.d has been secured to cover the Midwest, and Kimberley Griswold and Doug Sherin of Options will rep the production company on the West Coast…..London-based Rokkit has signed directors Mathew Cullen and Grady Hall of Venice, Calif.-based production company/design firm Motion Theory for commercial representation in the U.K., Belgium and Amsterdam. The directors work both separately and as a team…..Incubator Films, Santa Monica, has secured Marci Miles and Kristina Kovacevic of independent firm Reelize Reps to handle the Midwest….Dattner Dispoto and Associates, Los Angeles, is exclusively representing DPs Emmanual Kadosh (Land of the Blind, Lost City, Modigliani), Bobby Butkowski (The Hawk Is Dying, Saved!, Arlington Road) and Maryse Alberti (Velvet Goldmine, We Don’t Live Here Anymore, and this year’s recipient of the Kodak Vision Award for Cinematography) for feature films, TV commercials and music videos…..
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