Bicoastal production house Voyager has signed creative management company Sharon & Perry, which maintains offices in Chicago and Austin, for representation in the Midwest and Texas. Voyager’s roster consists of intimate documentarian and company founding director Charles Frank, director and Emmy-award winning editor Caitlyn Green (recipient of Tribeca Film Festival 2018’s Best Editing in a Documentary Film), narrative storyteller Marcus Tortorici and conceptual filmmaker Andrew Litten. Voyager has recently worked for brands such as Facebook, Spotify and Garmin Aviation, and collaborated with agencies BBDO, Deutsch, and R/GA, among many others. Voyager’s first feature documentary, Somewhere With No Bridges, helmed by Frank, is slated to premiere next year. Among Frank’s early career accomplishments was earning a slot in SHOOT’s New Directors Showcase in 2016. Sharon & Perry’s Sharon Swanson grew up running brands at places like Hal Riney, ChiatDay, Leo Burnett and Ogilvy. Perry Tongate of Sharon & Perry spent 10 years as a national sales rep for charlieuniformtango; he’s spent another decade as an independent rep…..
Snubs and Surprises In Oscar Nominations
In one of the more wide-open Oscar fields in recent history, there were plenty of nominations surprises Thursday. Not too long ago, it seemed that people like Angelina Jolie and Nicole Kidman were destined for best actress nominations, while general audience disinterest in the young Donald Trump movie "The Apprentice" might have indicated its awards chances were dead on arrival. But the members of the film academy had something different in mind. Here are some of the biggest snubs and surprises from the 97th Oscar nominations. SURPRISE: Jeremy Strong and Sebastian Stan, "The Apprentice" The young Trump movie "The Apprentice" has been one of the bigger awards season question marks, especially after it failed to resonate with moviegoers in theaters. And yet both Jeremy Strong, for his portrayal for Trump lawyer Roy Cohn, and Sebastian Stan (who was also in the conversation for "A Different Man" ), for playing the future two-time president, made it in. Only Strong got nominated by the Screen Actors Guild. SNUB: Marianne Jean-Baptiste, "Hard Truths" This will forever be one of the more confounding awards season oversights. Marianne Jean-Baptiste delivered one of the all-time great performances in Mike Leigh's "Hard Truths," as the perpetually aggrieved and sharp-tongued London woman Pansy. The general thinking is that it was either going to be Jean-Baptiste or Fernanda Torres, and Torres got in for the equally beloved "I'm Still Here." SNUB: Pamela Anderson, "The Last Showgirl" This is perhaps up for debate, but there was certainly a lot of goodwill behind Anderson's movie-star turn in Gia Coppola's "The Last Showgirl," especially considering her SAG nomination. But like with Jennifer Lopez and... Read More