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    Rep Report for July 17, 2020

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    From top left, clockwise are Blah! Blah! Blah!'s Ryan Haupt, Andy Arkin, Marci Selsberg and Monica Johnson
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    Bonfire, a creative studio based in New York, has retained the independent representation firm Blah! Blah! Blah! for East Coast sales. Experts in visual effects, design, animation, experiential and mixed media, Blah! Blah! Blah! partners Andy Arkin and Marci Selsberg, along with sales rep Monica Johnson and social media guru Ryan Haupt, will work closely with Clare O’Brien, Bonfire’s recently-installed head of sales. Bonfire specializes in boutique visual effects, color, design and animation services, provided via its proprietary Bonfire Platform remote talent network and by its in-house team of artists, creative directors and producers. The company was founded in 2016 by Flame artist Brendan O’Neil and is led by partners Aron Baxter, Peter Corbett, Dave Dimeola and Jason Mayo….

    Creative studio Imaginary Forces has hired Brittney Walker to lead business development. She will report directly to Tiffani Manabat, Imaginary Force’s general manager. A highly experienced new business strategist with an excellent track record in sales, Walker comes over from VFX and creative studio Framestore’s West Coast base. She focused there on sales for live action, emerging technology, VFX, design and rides. During her tenure she helped develop a client base that included Google, Facebook, Apple, HP, Activision and Intel…

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    Raoul Peck Resurrects A Once-Forgotten Anti-Apartheid Photographer In “Ernest Cole: Lost and Found”

    Friday, November 22, 2024

    When the photographer Ernest Cole died in 1990 at the age of 49 from pancreatic cancer at a Manhattan hospital, his death was little noted.

    Cole, one of the most important chroniclers of apartheid-era South Africa, was by then mostly forgotten and penniless. Banned by his native country after the publication of his pioneering photography book "House of Bondage," Cole had emigrated in 1966 to the United States. But his life in exile gradually disintegrated into intermittent homelessness. A six-paragraph obituary in The New York Times ran alongside a list of death notices.

    But Cole receives a vibrant and stirring resurrection in Raoul Peck's new film "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found," narrated in Cole's own words and voiced by LaKeith Stanfield. The film, which opens in theaters Friday, is laced throughout with Cole's photographs, many of them not before seen publicly.

    As he did in his Oscar-nominated James Baldwin documentary "I Am Not Your Negro," the Haitian-born Peck shares screenwriting credit with his subject. "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found" is drawn from Cole's own writings. In words and images, Peck brings the tragic story of Cole to vivid life, reopening the lens through which Cole so perceptively saw injustice and humanity.

    "Film is a political tool for me," Peck said in a recent interview over lunch in Manhattan. "My job is to go to the widest audience possible and try to give them something to help them understand where they are, what they are doing, what role they are playing. It's about my fight today. I don't care about the past."

    "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found" is a movie layered with meaning that goes beyond Cole's work. It asks questions not just about the societies Cole documented but of how he was treated as an artist,... Read More

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