Production house HēLō has secured indie firm Shortlist Mgmt, headed by Charlie McBrearty and Vanessa McLean, to handle representation on the West Coast. Shortlist’s roster includes B-REEL, Moxie Pictures, Caviar, Tool, Knucklehead, Ignition and Moment Factory. Bicoastal HeLo also has a London presence through U.K. partner, Mistress. HeLo’s directorial lineup includes Eddie Alcazar, Nathan Crowley, Alex Grossman, Zachary Guerra, Daniel Junge, Jeff Mann, Jeff Tremaine, Michael Mohan, One Day On Earth, Alan Poul, Richie Smyth, Paul Weiland and Purple Milk….Third Street Mining Company (3MC) has entered into an alliance with Chicago-based independent firm Robin Stevens Reps. Throughout the Midwest, Robin Stevens Reps will focus on partnering ad agencies with 3MC for production of commercials and branded content. Led by owner/EP John LaChapelle, L.A.-based 3MC maintains a directorial roster which includes Neil Tardio, Ben/Dave, David Hicks, Kevin Fitzgerald, Sinuhe Xavier, Process Creative and Christopher Watson Wood….Quantel has appointed Post Logic as its reseller partner in France for its postproduction product range, fronted by the Pablo Rio color and finishing system. Post Logic is one of France’s leading post equipment suppliers and integrators, representing many major brands in the French market. Post Logic is installing a Pablo Rio system at its central Paris headquarters and will be opening up for customer demos over the coming weeks to introduce Pablo Rio to its client base….Jeff McNall has joined Joseph Electronics, a provider of fiber termination and custom fiber solutions through Joseph Fiber Solutions, as sales engineer. McNall most recently served as VP of sales for the Americas at TSL and as director of product line management at Wohler Technologies. He earlier worked with Dolby, where he launched Dolby 3D into 500+ movie theaters worldwide….
Writers of “Conclave,” “Say Nothing” Win Scripter Awards
The authors and screenwriters behind the film “Conclave” and the series “Say Nothing” won the 37th-annual USC Libraries Scripter Awards during a black-tie ceremony at USC’s Town and Gown ballroom on Saturday evening (2/22).
The Scripter Awards recognize the year’s most accomplished adaptations of the written word for the screen, including both feature-length films and episodic series.
Novelist Robert Harris and screenwriter Peter Straughan took home the award for “Conclave.”
In accepting the award, Straughan said, “Adaptation is a really strange process, you’re very much the servant of two masters. In a way it’s an act of betrayal of one master for the other.” He joked that “You start off with a book that you love, you read it again and again, and then you end up throwing it over your shoulder,” crediting author Robert Harris for being “so kind, so generous, so open throughout.”
In the episodic series category, Joshua Zetumer and Patrick Radden Keefe won for the episode “The People in the Dirt” from the limited series “Say Nothing,” which Zetumer adapted from Keefe’s nonfiction book about the Troubles in Ireland.
Zetumer referenced this year’s extraordinary group of Scripter finalists, saying “projects like these reminded me of why I wanted to become a writer when I was sitting in USC’s Leavey Library dreaming of becoming a screenwriter. If you fell in love with movies, or fell in love with TV, chances are you fell in love with something dangerous.”
Special guest for the evening, actress and producer Jennifer Beals, shared her thoughts on the impact of libraries. “If ever you are at a loss wondering if there is good in the world,” she said, “you have only to go to a... Read More