Dattner Dispoto and Associates has booked DP Xavier Grobet, ASC, for HBO’s Looking Special, a telefilm being directed by Andrew Haigh….Vaddio has named Steve Huey as VP of worldwide sales. Huey is a seasoned sales and marketing executive with over 35 years of experience in IT and AV technology for companies including Polycom, Hewlett-Packard, Compaq, IBM, and Epson. During his time at Polycom, Huey acted as the sr. VP and chief marketing officer developing the worldwide go-to market strategy for the enterprise, public sector, small and medium sized business and consumer markets. Huey also directed worldwide marketing activities including product marketing, global branding and advertising, direct and channel marketing and vertical industry development. At his new roost, Huey will help to further Vaddio’s development in its professional AV and unified communications channels…..
Lensing and Designing Brady Corbet’s “The Brutalist”
Cinematographer Lol Crawley, BSC and production designer Judy Becker collaborated for the first time on The Brutalist (A24) and emerged as Oscar nominees in their respectiveย disciplines. Their work on the film has also earned major recognition elsewhere on the industry awards circuit. Just this week, Crawley won the British Society of Cinematographersโ Feature Film Award. He also is currently a nominee for both an ASC Award and a BAFTA Film Award. And Becker received nominations for a BAFTA Film Award and an Art Directors Guild (ADG) Excellence in Production Design Award. Crawley and Becker, though, traversed distinctly different paths to The Brutalist, being on opposite ends of the collaborative continuum with director and co-writer Brady Corbet going into the film. Crawley had already shot two features for Corbet prior to The Brutalist--The Childhood of a Leader (2015) and Vox Lux (2018). In sharp contrast, The Brutalist marked Beckerโs first time working with Corbet. Becker recalled seeing The Childhood of a Leader and immediately wanting to design for Corbet. Describing herself as โstunnedโ by the film, she related that it reflected Corbetโs talent as a filmmaker, his ability to work within a budget on a period movie and still deliver an end product that looked fantastic while brilliantly telling a story. Becker noted that a big budget period film replete with tons of set dressing, over-dressed locations and the like misses the mark for her. She asked, โWhy waste that money?โ But when Becker sees a period movie with a pared down budget that looks so good, โIโm really blown away.โ Based on The Childhood of a Leader, Becker told her agent that sheโd love to... Read More