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….
Martin Scorsese On “The Saints,” Faith In Filmmaking and His Next Movie
When Martin Scorsese was a child growing up in New York's Little Italy, he would gaze up at the figures he saw around St. Patrick's Old Cathedral. "Who are these people? What is a saint?" Scorsese recalls. "The minute I walk out the door of the cathedral and I don't see any saints. I saw people trying to behave well within a world that was very primal and oppressed by organized crime. As a child, you wonder about the saints: Are they human?" For decades, Scorsese has pondered a project dedicated to the saints. Now, he's finally realized it in "Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints," an eight-part docudrama series debuting Sunday on Fox Nation, the streaming service from Fox News Media. The one-hour episodes, written by Kent Jones and directed by Elizabeth Chomko, each chronicle a saint: Joan of Arc, Francis of Assisi, John the Baptist, Thomas Becket, Mary Magdalene, Moses the Black, Sebastian and Maximillian Kolbe. Joan of Arc kicks off the series on Sunday, with three weekly installments to follow; the last four will stream closer to Easter next year. In naturalistic reenactments followed by brief Scorsese-led discussions with experts, "The Saints" emphasizes that, yes, the saints were very human. They were flawed, imperfect people, which, to Scorsese, only heightens their great sacrifices and gestures of compassion. The Polish priest Kolbe, for example, helped spread antisemitism before, during WWII, sheltering Jews and, ultimately, volunteering to die in the place of a man who had been condemned at Auschwitz. Scorsese, who turns 82 on Sunday, recently met for an interview not long after returning from a trip to his grandfather's hometown in Sicily. He was made an honorary citizen and the experience was still lingering in his mind. Remarks have... Read More