Knox Avenue, the downtown Los Angeles-based production company headed by founder/executive producer Brooke Dooley, has secured Yvette Lubinsky of independent representation firm Yvette Reps to handle sales on the West Coast….Artist management agency RIAD Represents, led by founder Sherry Riad, has broadened its roster of talent to include digital communications shop the STUDIO. Under the aegis of company president Mary Nittolo, the STUDIO, which is based in New York City, specializes in 2D and 3D animation, graphic design, digital content, character development and strategic thinking. The STUDIO’s clients include major advertising agencies such as TBWA, FCB, The Burns Group, Saatchi & Saatchi, Publicis, mcgarrybowen, DePirro/Garrone, Goodby Silverstein & Partners, MomentumWW, Young & Rubicam, Walton Isaacson, Euro, Digitas, Grey, and BBDO; and brands like Chase, Verizon, Pfizer, Pepsi, Sony, Kraft Foods, Colgate, Novartis, Avon, Bacardi, Starbucks, Turner Broadcasting, GE, Best Buy and Target department stores. Additionally, RIAD has added to its staff Rose Wind Jerome as an agent, responsible for new business development for the company’s talent lineup, which includes such artists as photographers Michele Asselin, Thierry Des Fontaines, Troy House, Shaniqwa Jarvis, Keena, Michael Prince, Joe Windsor-Williams and Bil Zelman, along with the newest addition, the STUDIO. Prior to joining RIAD, Jerome was the program associate at The Center for Photography at Woodstock in Woodstock, New York….Austrian cinematographer Christian Berger, who’s handled by Dattner Dispoto and Associates, is shooting director Angelina Jolie’s By The Sea. Additionally, Dattner Dispoto and Associates has signed production designers Ariana Nakata and Carl Swanberg….
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