SDVI, a platform provider for cloud-native media supply chains, has brought Mark Harahan aboard as VP of sales for North America. Additionally current sales VP Simon Adler has been promoted to sr. VP of sales for North America. In these new roles at SDVI, Adler and Harahan will lead the company’s engagement with customers in the U.S. and Canada, helping existing customers continue to grow out their cloud-based media supply chains and helping new customers optimize their media supply chains in the cloud. Harahan has more than 25 years of experience selling into the media and entertainment industry. He brings deep knowledge of customer workflows and an ability to articulate complex technical principles to both technical and business leadership. Over his career, Harahan has held strategic sales roles with Grass Valley, Miranda Technologies, and Sony Electronics. Adler has been with SDVI since 2017, singlehandedly leading customer engagements and sales activity in North America. He has played an instrumental role in expanding the roster of SDVI customers, including work with A+E Networks, Comcast, FotoKem, NBCUniversal and Sony Pictures….
Review: Rachel Morrison Makes Feature Directorial Debut With “The Fire Inside”
"The Fire Inside," about boxer Claressa "T-Rex" Shields, is not your standard inspirational sports drama, even if it feels like it for the first half of the movie.
There's the hopeless dream, the difficult home life, the blighted community, the devoted coach, the training montages, the setbacks and, against all odds, the win. We've seen this kind of story before, you might think, and you'd be right. But then the movie pulls the rug out from under you: The victory is not the end. "The Fire Inside," directed by Rachel Morrison and written by Barry Jenkins, is as much about what happens after the win. It's not always pretty or inspirational, but it is truthful, and important.
Sports dramas can be just as cliche as fairy tales, with the gold medal and beautiful wedding presented as a happy ending. We buy into it time and time again for obvious reasons, but the idea of a happy ending at all, or even an ending, is almost exclusively for the audience. We walk away content that someone has found true love or achieved that impossible goal after all that work. For the subject, however, it's a different proposition; Life, and all its mundanities, disappointments and hardships, continues after all. And in the world of sports, that high moment often comes so young that it might be easy to look at the rest of the journey as a disappointing comedown.
Claressa Shields, played by Ryan Destiny in the film, was only 17 when she went to the 2012 London Olympics. Everything was stacked against her, including the statistics: No American woman had ever won an Olympic gold medal in the sport before. Her opponents had years on her. She was still navigating high school in Flint, Michigan, and things on the home front were volatile and lacking. Food was sometimes scarce... Read More