Commercial rep company Dubay TV, under the aegis of president Dana Dubay, has signed director Jeremy Heslup for commercial representation on the East Coast. Heslup serves as director and EP at Valkyr Productions, which he founded nearly a decade ago. The director’s credits span such clients as Divergent 3D, Land Rover, Wahl Clippers, Zenith Watches, Omaze, Puma, Porsche, a six-part narrative commercial campaign for Vincent Optiek in the Netherlands, and many others. His work has been nominated for awards by the London Motor Film Festival and Automoto Film Festival and featured at the Petersen Automotive Museum, Soho Houses, Monterey Classic Car Show and more. Heslup’s international exploits have seen him make films in Europe, South America, Hong Kong, South Africa, Mexico, Canada and Costa Rica, among other varied locales. On the long-form front, he directed The Last Great Road Race, a feature documentary about the historic La Carrera Panamericana in Mexico….
Jules Feiffer, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Cartoonist and Writer, Dies At 95
Jules Feiffer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and writer whose prolific output ranged from a long-running comic strip to plays, screenplays and children's books, died Friday. He was 95 and, true to his seemingly tireless form, published his last book just four months ago.
Feiffer's wife, writer JZ Holden, said Tuesday that he died of congestive heart failure at their home in Richfield Springs, New York, and was surrounded by friends, the couple's two cats and his recent artwork.
Holden said her husband had been ill for a couple of years, "but he was sharp and strong up until the very end. And funny."
Artistically limber, Feiffer hopscotched among numerous forms of expression, chronicling the curiosity of childhood, urban angst and other societal currents. To each he brought a sharp wit and acute observations of the personal and political relations that defined his readers' lives.
As Feiffer explained to the Chicago Tribune in 2002, his work dealt with "communication and the breakdown thereof, between men and women, parents and children, a government and its citizens, and the individual not dealing so well with authority."
Feiffer won the United States' most prominent awards in journalism and filmmaking, taking home a 1986 Pulitzer Prize for his cartoons and "Munro," an animated short film he wrote, won a 1961 Academy Award. The Library of Congress held a retrospective of his work in 1996.
"My goal is to make people think, to make them feel and, along the way, to make them smile if not laugh," Feiffer told the South Florida Sun Sentinel in 1998. "Humor seems to me one of the best ways of espousing ideas. It gets people to listen with their guard down."
Feiffer was born on Jan. 26, 1929, in the Bronx. From... Read More