Bazillion Pictures has hired Laura Hudson to be its new VP of business development. Hudson will be driving new client business and helping to promote Kansas City, Mo.-based Bazillion’s expertise and creativity in animation services. Throughout her career, Hudson has developed and produced high-impact projects ranging from motion graphics, 3D animation, augmented reality, social media activation, game day sports graphic packages and interactive games. Hudson’s accomplishments include selling the first NBA augmented reality experience to the Indiana Pacers, assisting in the launch of Churchill Downs’ social media activation on the first-ever installed 4K video board and assisting in developing the Winter X Games social media experience which was used to moderate social content….
RUSHWORKS, a Dallas area-based software development company that produces technology for production, playback, and streaming, has retained the services of industry vet Martin Cook to help with its continuing worldwide expansion. Rush Beesley, RUSHWORKS president, announced from company headquarters in Flower Mound, Texas, that Cook will serve as the newly appointed director of market development, international. Cook’s responsibilities include establishing and managing RUSHWORKS international sales channel. He has already signed distributor agreements with Cache Media, an established supplier of broadcast and AV equipment headquartered in Newbury, UK, and AV Group Technologies, which provides technologically advanced hardware solutions in Australia and New Zealand. Cook has worked for industry leading manufacturers such as Grass Valley Group, Sony UK, Philips and BBC Technology in a number of management positions….
Juliette Welfling Takes On A Musical, A Crime Thriller, Comedy and Drama In “Emelia Pérez”
Editor Juliette Welfling has a track record of close-knit, heartfelt collaboration with writer-director Jacques Audiard, a four-time BAFTA Award nominee for Best Film not in the English Language--starting with The Beat That My Heart Skipped in 2006, then A Prophet in 2010, Rust and Bone in 2013, and Dheepan in 2017. He won for The Beat That My Heart Skipped and A Prophet.
Welfling cut three of those features: A Prophet, Rust and Bone, and Dheepan. And that shared filmography has since grown to most recently include Emelia Pérez, the Oscar buzz-worthy film from Netflix. Welfling herself is not stranger to Academy Award banter. In fact, she earned a Best Achievement in Film Editing Oscar nomination in 2008 for director Julian Schnabel’s The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.
Emelia Pérez is a hybrid musical/drama/thriller which introduces us to a talented but undervalued lawyer named Rita (portrayed by Zoe Saldana) who receives a lucrative offer out of the blue from a feared drug cartel boss who’s looking to retire from his sordid business and disappear forever by becoming the woman he’s always dreamt of being (Karla SofÃa Gascón in a dual role as Manitas Del Monte/Emilia Pérez). Rita helps pull this off, orchestrating the faked death of Del Monte who leaves behind a widow (Jessi, played by Selena Gomez) and kids. While living comfortably and contently in her/their new identity, Pérez misses the children. Pérez once again enlists Rita--this time to return to family life, reuniting with the kids by pretending to be their aunt, the sister of Del Monte. Now as an aunt, Pérez winds up adopting a more altruistic bent professionally,... Read More