BRW FILMLAND Los Angeles has signed Strike! for sales representation on the East Coast. Kelly Flint launched Strike! in 2007, which represents top directors, designers, animators and editors. In addition to BRW, Flint represents Fiona, Free Market Films and Private School….With the official launch of its New York office complete, bicoastal Arcade Edit has set up new sales representation for the U.S. East Coast representation is now being handled by Barrie Isaacson MGMT, headed-up by Barrie Isaacson and sales reps Cara Wenig and Natalie Loos. Mary Kate Hatfield is now heading up Midwest sales. West Coast and Texas representation remains with Dexter Randazzo at The Department of Sales. Arcade Edit is an editorial collective and partnership among managing partner Damian Stevens, executive producer/partner Sila Soyer and editors/partners Kim Bica, Jeff Ferruzzo, Geoff Hounsell and Paul Martinez. Arcade’s roster of talent also includes editors Will Hasell, Christjan Jordan, Mark Paiva, Nick Rondeau and Greg Scruton, and EP Nicole Visram…..Nashville-based commercial production company Porchlight has secured Jack Reed of Jack Reed Reps to handle its roster of live-action and tabletop directors in the Southeast and Southwest digital and broadcast commercial markets….Laura Coones of Moccasin Management has added FRAME to its roster for both West Coast/Texas commercial representation as well as TV network broadcast projects. Frame just finished six ID rebrands for Swedish network TV3 Puls….Michael Guariglia has joined Telemundo Media as VP, network sales. He will be responsible for overseeing the advertising sales function for Telemundo Network for the Northeast territory. Guariglia will report to Mike Alvarez, sr. VP, ad sales Telemundo Network and will be based in New York City. As the senior leader in the Northeast territory, Guariglia will work with top clients to develop integrated packages and programs to suit their needs. He will serve as the senior point of contact for clients and agencies in his territory, and will be responsible for negotiating top-tier deals. Guariglia will play an integral role in designing strategy and will be responsible for overseeing the regional sales team, as well as evaluating the performance of advertising sales programs. Guariglia joins Telemundo from Univision Communications Inc., where he served as an account executive. Prior to that, he was VP, client development, Univision Communications Inc. Before joining Univision, Guariglia was VP, advertising sales at The WB/CW TV Network and account executive at the WB Network….
Several Movies To Look Forward To At Sundance 2025
The Sundance Film Festival catalogue can be overwhelming to navigate, with around 90 feature films playing across 11 days.
This year the Robert Redford-founded independent film festival has something for everyone: Comedies, dramas, horrors, documentaries, the intriguingly undefinable (there's a movie about cabbage smuggling called "Bubble & Squeak" and one in which a woman becomes a chair and everyone likes her better that way called "By Design").
Here are a few of the films we're looking forward to most:
"Atropia"
This is a film that the producers would rather audiences experience blind, but the brief synopsis is that Alia Shawkat plays an aspiring actress in a military role-playing facility who falls for a soldier playing an insurgent. Luca Guadagnino produced the film, written and directed by Hailey Gates. It also stars Callum Turner and Chloë Sevigny. When asked how she likes to describe the film, Gates told The Associated Press that, "Sometimes I describe it as a military industrial complex romantic comedy."
"Bunnylovr"
This film delves into the life of a Chinese-American "cam girl," kind of a virtual sex worker, who is navigating a toxic relationship with a client while attempting to repair her relationship with her dying father. Katarina Zhu wrote, directed and stars in the film, alongside Rachel Sennott.
"2000 Meters to Andriivka"
Pulitzer Prize-winner Mstyslav Chernov took audiences into the first days of the Russian invasion of Ukraine in the Oscar-winning "20 Days in Mariupol" and is back with another dispatch from the ongoing war. In "2000 Meters to Andriivka," a joint production between the AP and Frontline, Chernov turns his lens to Ukrainian... Read More