Producer and creative director Daron Hollowell has launched Zenith, a Los Angeles-based talent management and consulting company that is part strategy and part representation. With a focus on creating collaborations between new wave content creators and brands, Zenith is a resource for forward-looking brands and agencies. Hollowell has over a decade of experience in music, advertising, production, and brand creation. He fronted the seminal hardcore band Four Hundred Years, then founded the music collective Black Iris Music in 2004. In 2008 he founded White Iris Records, early home to Los Angeles artists including Best Coast, FIDLAR, and Electric Guest. He went on to found music production house Ring The Alarm in 2014 and its beer brand offshoot, Day Beer in 2018. Zenith is an asset for brands and agencies who see the opportunity in partnering with and fostering diverse and distinctive voices in content creation as a path to take branding and marketing in exciting new directions. Hollowell is replicating his model for Black Iris Music, only this time it is for content creators. Hollowell explained, “Our focus is on diverse creators with strong, fresh, and distinct voices. We are also embracing multi-hyphenate talent who can execute their vision across a variety of media and platforms: photographers who also design, directors who choreograph, editors who make music–this allows for a greater amount of quality content from a unique perspective. That’s what we’re ultimately here to do–make connections for the maximum benefit to both creators and brands.” Zenith’s inaugural roster includes tinygiant, Rocket Film, Lumenati and Bindery NYC….
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