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….
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