LEE Filters, a manufacturer of high-quality lighting gels and photographic filters, has appointed Tim Haskell as sales director. Haskell takes over from Ian Clark, who retired at the end of July 2020 after further developing and successfully leading the company’s global sales strategy. Haskell, who has significant sales, business development and marketing experience in the imaging industry, will lead LEE’s sales and business-development activities across the globe. Haskell comes to LEE Filters with an established network and industry relationships from his previous senior-level sales roles at Rotolight, XP Distribution, Bowens and the Calumet Group. He will be based at LEE Filters UK in Andover, Hampshire, but will travel globally to support the company’s valued clients. LEE is part of the Panavision family of brands which also includes Light Iron, Panalux, Direct Digital and Island Studios….
Lou DiMauro has been named VP of sales, East Coast, for Globecast. In his new role, DiMauro is responsible for selling Globecast media management, contribution, distribution and IP services to customers based in the U.S. and Canada. He will report to Tim Jackson, Globecast’s sr. VP, sales & marketing, the Americas. DiMauro most recently served as VP of sales, North America, for Encompass Digital Media (including predecessor companies Group W and Ascent Media) as part of his more than 30 years with the company. Prior to working for Encompass Digital Media, DiMauro was broadcast operations coordinator at ESPN Media….
Thomas O’Neill has joined Leader Instruments, producer of high-grade test and measurement solutions, as central regional manager in charge of business development in the U.S. Midwest and Canada. His appointment forms part of Leader’s continued development of the support base for its customers and distribution network around the world. He was formerly Omnitek’s VP of North American sales & business development. Graduating with a BA from DePaul University, Chicago, O’Neill commenced his broadcast career at FOR-A Corporation, progressing to senior management roles with Abekas Video Systems, Quantel, Chyron, Cine-tal (co-founder), and Pixel Power Inc….
Review: Director John Crowley’s “We Live In Time”
It's not hard to spend a few hours watching Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield fall and be in love. In "We Live In Time," filmmaker John Crowley puts the audience up close and personal with this photogenic British couple through the highs and lows of a relationships in their 30s.
Everyone starts to think about the idea of time, and not having enough of it to do everything they want, at some point. But it seems to hit a lot of us very acutely in that tricky, lovely third decade. There's that cruel biological clock, of course, but also careers and homes and families getting older. Throw a cancer diagnosis in there and that timer gets ever more aggressive.
While we, and Tobias (Garfield) and Almut (Pugh), do indeed live in time, as we're constantly reminded in big and small ways — clocks and stopwatches are ever-present, literally and metaphorically — the movie hovers above it. The storytelling jumps back and forth through time like a scattershot memory as we piece together these lives that intersect in an elaborate, mystical and darkly comedic way: Almut runs into Tobias with her car. Their first chat is in a hospital hallway, with those glaring fluorescent lights and him bruised and cut all over. But he's so struck by this beautiful woman in front of him, he barely seems to care.
I suppose this could be considered a Lubitschian "meet-cute" even if it knowingly pushes the boundaries of our understanding of that romance trope. Before the hit, Tobias was in a hotel, attempting to sign divorce papers and his pens were out of ink and pencils kept breaking. In a fit of near-mania he leaves, wearing only his bathrobe, to go to a corner store and buy more. Walking back, he drops something in the street and bang: A new relationship is born. It's the... Read More