Millie Munro, of independent representation company Munro & Co, and Bryan Shrednick, formerly of Shortlist Management, have joined forces on bueno, a talent management company. Originally started by Shrednick in 2015 after a wandering sabbatical of several months, bueno now launches hand-in-hand with the Munro & Co. client roster to create a tailored offering of companies and artists in production, postproduction, and digital, ranging from Stink USA and Human to new wave integrated outfits such as m ss ng p eces, Bullitt Branded and Alldayeveryday. From 2010–2014, Munro was executive producer at music and sound design studio Human, where she opened the company’s London office before relocating to Los Angeles three years ago. Simultaneously, she worked alongside indie rep Brent Novick, representing his roster of talent before venturing on her own to begin Munro & Co in 2014. Munro previously launched Moxie Pictures London in 2005, where she remained as head of sales, representing and growing the company’s roster of directors for over five years. As for Shrednick, prior to shortlist, he served as director of business development at design and digital production studio Royale, leading its sales and marketing efforts across the U.S. and Europe….Cinematographer Tuomo Virtanen, active in commercials and music videos, has joined Dattner Dispoto and Associates for representation. Also coming aboard the Dattner Dispoto roster is costume designer Kathleen Detoro whose credits include Breaking Bad (AMC; High Bridge Productions). Dattner Dispoto has also booked films for several of its DPs, including Bojan Bazelli, ASC, who’s set to lens the Gore Verbinski-directed Cure For Wellness, Rachel Morrison for director Rick Famuyiwa’s Confirmation, Giles Nuttgens for director David Mackenzie’s Comancheria, and Jason McCormick for director Si & Ad’s Shovel Buddies. Also landing Shovel Buddies’ gigs are a couple of other Dattner Dispoto artisans–production designer Ariana Nakata, and costume designer Kameron Lennox….
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