Trevor King and Kira Gourguechon have launched Kingdom, a national repping firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles. The new entity will handle East Coast representation for Mad River Post, which has offices in New York, Detroit, Dallas, Los Angeles, and San Francisco; East and West Coast representation for Reginaldo, a division of Reginald Pike, Toronto, that handles directors Brian Lee Hughes and Lena Beug in the U.S.; and national representation for music company Robot Repair, New York….M80 Films, Los Angeles, has secured independent reps Donna D’Aguanno to handle the Midwest, and Jolie Miller and Randi Arnold of Miller/Arnold to cover the East Coast….Nikki Weiss & Co., Chicago, has signed Big Lawn Films, Santa Monica, for Midwest representation. Big Lawn features director Chuck Bennett……New York-based The Blue Rock Editing Company has added Emilianne Slaydon as an in-house sales rep. She will work alongside Blue Rock’s rep Samantha Tuttlebee in representing the company nationally…..Nancy Charade has been named head of marketing at Rex Edit, Venice, Calif. She is working in-house at Rex while continuing to represent La Fabrique, Montreal, to U.S. houses looking to shoot in Canada….Hillary Pitcher, formerly on the sales team at Steam Films, Toronto, has become head of sales at Fever Films North America, also in Toronto….DPs David Boyd and Jamie Barber are again available for spots via The Montana Artists Agency, Los Angeles, after wrapping their respective TV series assignments. Boyd just completed the second season of Without A Trace. Meanwhile Barber finished season two of the hit show The OC….
Marlee Matlin Is “Not Alone Anymore” At Sundance, Opens Up In A New Documentary
Marlee Matlin gives an unflinchingly honest account of her experiences as a deaf actor in the funny and revelatory documentary "Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore." The film kicked off the 41st Sundance Film Festival Thursday, as the first major premiere in the Eccles Theater in Park City, Utah.
After the screening audiences in the theater, some wiping tears away, greeted Matlin with a standing ovation when she took the stage.
The film delves into all aspects of her life, personal and professional: Her childhood and how her family handled learning she had become deaf at 18 months; her experience winning the best actress Oscar for her first movie role in "Children of a Lesser God" and her allegedly abusive romantic relationship with her co-star, the late William Hurt, which he denied; and her experiences in an industry not equipped to accommodate deaf actors.
The film was directed by Shoshanna Stern, who also is deaf. Matlin specifically requested that Stern take on the project when American Masters approached her about doing a documentary.
Matlin has written about her experiences before, including her volatile relationship with Hurt and drugs, in a memoir, "I'll Scream Later." But before the #MeToo movement, she felt her allegations were largely dismissed or glossed over.
Interviews from the book's press tour show journalists were more interested in the "amazing sex" she said she had with Hurt than the stories of the alleged physical and verbal abuse. One interviewer asked her why she waited "so long" to come forward with the claims.
The documentary isn't just a portrait of Matlin, but a broader look at deaf culture and how Matlin was thrust into the spotlight at a young age as a de facto spokesperson for all deaf... Read More