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…..
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