New York-headquartered Compulsive Pictures has secured Connie Mellors and Ellen Dempsey of Connie Mellors and Company to handle the West Coast. The Compulsive directorial roster consists of Mark Celentano, Henrik Hallgreen, Linzi Knight, Jorgon Loof, Tony Ober and Sergio Henriques……Ellen Knable of independent firm Ellen Knable & Associates, has taken on West Coast representation for Highway Sixty One, New York. The production house’s lineup of directors includes Scotty Bergstein, Eddy Chu and Doug Coleman…..FilmCore, with editorial shops in Santa Monica, San Francisco and New York, has retained Christy Van House for commercial representation on the West Coast and in Texas. Van House will also handle the Midwest on an interim basis. In addition to her new role at FilmCore, Van House continues as director of marketing and sales for Hest & Kramer Music, Minneapolis….
DGA Award Nominees Set For TV, Documentaries and Commercials
The Directors Guild of America has unveiled the nominees for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Television, Commercials and Documentary for 2024. The winners will be announced at the 77th Annual DGA Awards on Saturday, February 8, at The Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, Calif. Garnering multiple nods in their respective categories of Dramatic Series, Comedy Series and Movies for TV/Limited Series were, respectively, Shogun, The Bear and The Penguin. Three of the five nominations in Dramatic Series went to Shogun--Hiromi Kamata for the “Ladies of the Willow World Episode,” Frederick E.O. Toye for “Crimson Sky” and Jonathan van Tulleken for “Anjin.” The other two nods were garnered by Alex Graves for The Diplomat episode “Dreadnought” and Issa Lopez for the “Part 6” installment of True Detective, Night Country. The Bear also took three out of five nominations, in the Comedy Series category: Directors Ayo Edebiri for the “Napkins” episode, Duccio Fabbri for “Doors,” and Christopher Storer for “Tomorrow.” The other two Comedy Series nods went to Lucia Aniello for the Hacks episode “Bulletproof” and Jeff Schaffer for the Curb Your Enthusiasm episode “No Lessons Learned.” And garnering three of the five nods in Movies For Television and Limited Series was The Penguin: Directors Kevin Bray for “Top Hat,” Jennifer Getzinger for “A Great or Little Thing” and Helen Shaver for “Cent’anni.” Rounding out the category were nominationns for Alfonso Curaon on the strength of Disclaimer, and Steven Zaillian for Ripley. Nominated in the Documentary category were Brendan Bellomo and Slava Leontyev for... Read More