DP Quyen Tran (the Justin Lerner-directed The Automatic Hate which debuted at SXSW) and production designer Todd Jeffery (Smartass directed by Jena Serbu) have signed with Dattner Dispoto and Associates (DDA) for representation. Also DDA has booked the CMT television series Still The King for DP Blake McClure…..
PlayBox Technology (UK) announces a major addition to its sales team with the appointment of Tim Rawlings as business development manager for the Middle East and Africa. Rawlings began his broadcast industry career in 1981 at Crystal Video, progressing to technical management positions at MetroVideo International, Mar-Com Systems and the London Post Group. Subsequent positions included general manager of JVC Professional Europe, sales management at Quantel, Presteigne Broadcast Rentals and business development manager at C2S Systems….
When the photographer Ernest Cole died in 1990 at the age of 49 from pancreatic cancer at a Manhattan hospital, his death was little noted.
Cole, one of the most important chroniclers of apartheid-era South Africa, was by then mostly forgotten and penniless. Banned by his native country after the publication of his pioneering photography book "House of Bondage," Cole had emigrated in 1966 to the United States. But his life in exile gradually disintegrated into intermittent homelessness. A six-paragraph obituary in The New York Times ran alongside a list of death notices.
But Cole receives a vibrant and stirring resurrection in Raoul Peck's new film "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found," narrated in Cole's own words and voiced by LaKeith Stanfield. The film, which opens in theaters Friday, is laced throughout with Cole's photographs, many of them not before seen publicly.
As he did in his Oscar-nominated James Baldwin documentary "I Am Not Your Negro," the Haitian-born Peck shares screenwriting credit with his subject. "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found" is drawn from Cole's own writings. In words and images, Peck brings the tragic story of Cole to vivid life, reopening the lens through which Cole so perceptively saw injustice and humanity.
"Film is a political tool for me," Peck said in a recent interview over lunch in Manhattan. "My job is to go to the widest audience possible and try to give them something to help them understand where they are, what they are doing, what role they are playing. It's about my fight today. I don't care about the past."
"Ernest Cole: Lost and Found" is a movie layered with meaning that goes beyond Cole's work. It asks questions not just about the societies Cole documented but of how he was treated as an artist,... Read More
