The Directors Network (TDN), Los Angeles, has signed director John Bonito, known for his action-based comedy spots. Also now available for commercials through TDN is cinematographer Dana Christiaansen whose credits include extensive car work spanning the major automotive companies….Santa Monica-based edit house chrome has hired Tracy Fetterman as its West Coast sales rep….L.A.-based Montana Artists Agency will represent Italy's Cinecittรก Studios in the U.S. Cinecittรก Studios services film, commercial, television, music video and multimedia industries worldwide….Red Truck Films, Raleigh, N.C., has signed N.Y.-based director Jody Lauren Miller and Dallas-based helmer Bill Schwarz for representation in the Southeast. Miller cut her teeth at NFL Films where she produced, wrote and directed interstitials and promos. She later went freelance, and was included in SHOOT's 2006 New Directors Showcase. Schwarz first establishe himself as a DP….Orlando Management has signed DP Daron Keet for exclusive representation….Angelique & Associates has signed DPs Tom Camarda and Anton Klima….
Cinematographer Pepe Avila del Pino Discusses Residente’s “313,” Winning An ASC Award
Pepe Avila del Pinoโs second career nomination for an American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Award earned him his first win earlier this week in Los Angeles--for outstanding achievement in music videos on the strength of the Residente-directed โ313โ featuring performances by Residente, Sรญlvia Pรฉrez Cruz and Penelope Cruz. The cinematic, stirringly beautiful โ313โ opens with Penelope Cruz narrating in Spanish, reflecting on the meaning of life and the passage of time. She is joined by ballet dancers who are said to represent time while Cruz represents life itself. The ethereal music video brings us the essence of time in our lives. Residenteโs life and time are seemingly controlled, respectively, by Cruz and the dancers from the outset. But towards the end of the video, Residente starts to orchestrate his own time and life. What canโt be denied, though, is that time is fleeting as Cruz and Residente begin to disappear before our eyes. Avila del Pino, AMC, is best known for his work in television and features. In fact, his alluded to first ASC Award nomination came in 2018 on the basis of the TV pilot for The Deuce, directed by Michelle MacLaren. Over the past seven years, Avila del Pino has lensed select music videos--all for his friend, Residente (a.k.a. Rene Perez Joglar). The Residente videos have thus become passion projects, done out of โpure loveโ with the same close-knit team. The โ313โ song and video were especially personal to Residente in that they were both inspired by a friend who had died about a year earlier. To win an ASC Award for this particular project is most gratifying for Avila del Pino--not only because of the videoโs significance to Residente, but also the deep feelings the DP has for the ASC.... Read More