Matt Factor has exited the New York office of bicoastal/international Propaganda Films. Staffer Tara Ford, who had teamed with Factor to cover the East Coast, now solely handles the territory for the company. Philip Fox Mills remains East Coast rep for bicoastal/international Satellite, a sister shop to Propaganda. Ford and Mills continue to work closely with Dana Balkin, head of sales for the Propaganda group of companies….Richard Fink of Fink Tank, New York, has taken on East Coast representation for Los Angeles-based Original Film….Tombo, the Hollywood-based shop headed by executive producer Fred Porter, has secured Gabrielle Giebels and Catherine De Angelis—a.k.a. Hot Betty—for Midwest representation. Terri Montgomery continues to rep Tombo in such central Midwest states as Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri and Iowa….Highway 61, New York, has signed Adam Fine of LittleRedHen Entertainment, Santa Monica, for West Coast representation….Wow+Flutter Music+Sound, Los Angeles and Minneapolis, has named Los Angeles-based independent rep Jennifer Cohen to head up West Coast sales….Lankford Films, Houston, has signed Perry Schaffer and Corey Rogers of Schaffer & Co., New York, for East Coast sales, and Doug Stieber and Lynn Mutchler of Doug Stieber & Company, Chicago, to handle the Midwest….
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