Hometeam Global Content has secured Anna Rotholz Management for representation on the East Coast. Anna Rotholz brings over a decade of expertise working in the East Coast market, having spent the majority of her career as an agent and independent rep working at numerous repping firms. She currently represents a diverse roster of production companies including Chromista, tinygiant, Hey Baby and PF100. During the global pandemic that put a halt to the production industry, Hometeam saw an opportunity to reimagine its approach in executing and crafting projects from a more local level. Hometeam’s founding partners–Harrison Winter, Lagan Sebert and Brandon Bloch–brought together two production companies with more than a decade of experience each – Magic Seed Productions and Co.MISSION Content Group – combining their talent networks and remote production experience to build an improved and more efficient method to production on a global scale. Hometeam has hit the ground running this year with NBC’s American Song Contest, filming show contestants in all 50 states and 6 U.S. territories completely remote while advocating for sustainability in AICP’s panel as active members of Green The Bid. The company co-produced the new Discovery+ show Conjuring Kesha, which will premiere on the Travel Channel this October. Off a fresh Emmy nomination for last year’s work on The Voice, they shot internationally on the Apple TV show My Kind of Country in collaboration with Reese Witherspoon’s production company, Hello Sunshine. “We’ve created an innovative model built on a hand-picked global network of the best filmmakers in every U.S. state and 150 countries that aid us in telling more expansive stories without boundaries,” shared Bloch. “Anna understands where the industry is headed and it aligns with our forward-looking vision on how we can help her clients answer today’s content needs. She recognizes there’s a lot of space in the market for a company like Hometeam and we’re excited to continue our growth together”…
Directing and Editing “Conclave”; Insights From Edward Berger and Nick Emerson
It’s been a bruising election year but this time we’re referring to a ballot box struggle that’s more adult than the one you’d typically first think of in 2024. Rather, on the industry awards front, the election being cited is that of the Pope which takes front and center stage in director Edward Berger’s Conclave (Focus Features), based on the 2016 novel of the same title by Robert Harris. Adapted by screenwriter Peter Straugham, Conclave stars Ralph Fiennes as the cardinal leading the conclave that has convened to select the next Pope. While part political thriller, full of backstabbing and behind-closed-door machinations, Conclave also registers as a thoughtful adult drama dealing with themes such as a crisis of faith, weighing the greater good, and engaging in a struggle that’s as much about spirituality as the attainment of power.
Conclave is Berger’s first feature after his heralded All Quiet on the Western Front, winner of four Oscars in 2023, including for Best International Feature Film. And while Conclave would on the surface seem to be quite a departure from that World War I drama, there’s a shared bond of humanity which courses through both films.
For Berger, the heightened awareness of humanity hit home for him by virtue of where he was--in Rome, primarily at the famed Cinecittà studio--to shoot Conclave, sans any involvement from the Vatican. He recalled waking up in Rome to “soak up” the city. While having his morning espresso, Berger recollected looking out a window and seeing a priest walking about with a cigarette in his mouth, a nun having a cup of coffee, an archbishop carrying a briefcase. It dawned on Berger that these were just people going to... Read More