Cinematographer Ben Seresin is now represented by UTA across the board….The Skouras Agency has signed cinematographer Corey Walter for exclusive representation. Walter most recently shot Goodbye To All That (a Tribeca nomination for Best Narrative Film) directed by Angus MacLachlan. Walter’s latest spot work includes Nike Brand Jordan (directed by Matt Aselton of Arts & Sciences) and ESPN World Cup (directed by Stacy Wall of Imperial Woodpecker)…Sheldon Prosnit Agency has changed its name to Artistry. Robin Sheldon, along with agency principals and co-owners Jane Prosnit and Gregg Dallesandro, felt the time was right to move away from using last names and to rebrand the shop which has represented below-the-line talent since the 1980s. Artistry is comprised of six agents: Sheldon, Prosnit, Dallesandro, Lynn Richardson, Pegi Murray and Julie Kole. Richardson is a former agent at New York Office. Murray repped Massive Music and worked for Chelsea Pictures and Believe Media. And Kole was partner in the Jacob and Kole agency. Artistry’s talent roster includes cinematographers, editors, production designers and costume designers. Among the DPs are Luca Bigazzi (winner of the Italian Academy Award for The Great Beauty and Il Divo); Chris Blauvelt (Sundance Best Cinematography Award in 2014 for Low Down); Nicolas Bolduc (Canadian Screen Awards Best Cinematography winner in 2014 for Enemy); Stephane Fontaine (Cesar award winner for A Prophet and The Beat That My Heart Skipped); Chayse Irvin (2014 winner of Best Cinematography Debut at Camerimage for Medeas); Nicolas Loir (2014 winner for Best Cinematography in a Music Video at Camerimage for Ghostpoet’s “Cold Win”); Chris Manley (four time Emmy nominee for Mad Men); and Declan Quinn (three time winner of the Independent Spirit Award for In America, Kama Sutra and Leaving Las Vegas….Dan Hammond has joined CINEVERSE to handle technical marketing support and sales for the film and digital camera rental group. He will be based at the company’s office in Glendale, Calif. Previously he was director, cinema technical services, at Doremi Labs where he was responsible for directing a global team of technicians that provided technical support and training programs to the digital cinema exhibition companies and post facilities. During his six year run, Hammond helped Doremi Labs build its global footprint from 8,000 digital cinema servers to over 60,000 installed around the world. He developed, organized and helped conduct over 250 digital cinema technical training seminars around the world….After a year at Paramount, Rick Larimore has taken on business development responsibilities at full service audio post company BangZoom! Entertainment, which launched a new facility in Burbank for 7.1, 5.1 and 2.0 audio mixing as well as ADR, ensemble reording, editing and color correction….
Writers of “Conclave,” “Say Nothing” Win Scripter Awards
The authors and screenwriters behind the film โConclaveโ and the series โSay Nothingโ won the 37th-annual USC Libraries Scripter Awards during a black-tie ceremony at USCโs Town and Gown ballroom on Saturday evening (2/22).
The Scripter Awards recognize the yearโs 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 โConclave.โ
In accepting the award, Straughan said, โAdaptation is a really strange process, youโre very much the servant of two masters. In a way itโs an act of betrayal of one master for the other.โ He joked that โYou start off with a book that you love, you read it again and again, and then you end up throwing it over your shoulder,โ crediting author Robert Harris for being โso kind, so generous, so open throughout.โ
In the episodic series category, Joshua Zetumer and Patrick Radden Keefe won for the episode โThe People in the Dirtโ from the limited series โSay Nothing,โ which Zetumer adapted from Keefeโs nonfiction book about the Troubles in Ireland.
Zetumer referenced this yearโs extraordinary group of Scripter finalists, saying โprojects like these reminded me of why I wanted to become a writer when I was sitting in USCโs 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.โ
Special guest for the evening, actress and producer Jennifer Beals, shared her thoughts on the impact of libraries. โIf ever you are at a loss wondering if there is good in the world,โ she said, โyou have only to go to a... Read More