CORWIN CUTS DYLANEditor Hank Corwin of bicoastal Lost Planet has cut the music video for Bob Dylan’s “When The Deal Goes Down,” directed by Bennett Miller, an Academy Award nominee for Capote and a spot helmer at bicoastal/international Hungry Man. The clip stars Scarlett Johansson who plays a nameless young woman in an earlier simpler era. The video captures her engaged in a series of activities, including a ferry ride around Ellis Island, drives through the countryside and even during an interrupted nap; the clip has a nostalgic romantic feel. Corwin has lent his cutting prowess to videos, assorted commercials and features (The Horse Whisperer, Nixon, Natural Born Killers, Snow Falling On Cedars). Lost Planet recently aligned itself with London editorial house Work, enabling clients to collaborate in the U.S. or the U.K. with editors from either shop. Lost Planet’s ensemble of talent has a foothold in London for European assignments while Work’s coterie of talent gains access to Lost Planet’s stateside bases of operation….
IDLEWILD
Editor David Checel of Cut+Run, which maintains shops in Santa Monica, New York and London, has cut the music and dance sequences for Idlewild, a film that marks the feature directorial debut of Bryan Barber, a noted helmer of spots and videos. (The rest of the film was cut by veteran film editor Anne Gousard.) The film stars OutKast members Andre Benjamin and Antwan A. Patton. Checel additionally edited the film’s title sequence and the accompanying Barber-directed Outkast music video titled “Morris Brown”…..
PEOPLE IN THE NEWS
Flame artist/visual effects supervisor Verdi Sevenhuysen has joined The Syndicate, Santa Monica. He comes over from Riot Santa Monica where his credits included spots for such clients as Lincoln Navigator, Infiniti and Ford Mustang–the latter being the classic spot that integrated footage of Steve McQueen. A noted European artisan, Sevenhuysen broke into the U.S. at Encore, Santa Monica (which later evolved into Riot). He made his major mark on the other side of the Atlantic as a visual effects/compositing artist at Rushes, London. Sevenhuysen started Rushes’ 3-D department. Now at The Syndicate, he is reunited with Flame artist/effects supervisor Les Umberger……Barbara Genicoff has come aboard visual effects/CG animation house Zoic Studios, Los Angeles, as visual effects producer for commercials. She most recently had been freelance producing for editorial companies on both coasts. Earlier she was exec producer at edit shop King Cut, Venice, Calif., from 1999-’03…..Chicago-based Machete Edit and Design, has added creative editor Michelle Orzechowski. She arrived from Chicago-based S2…Dave Finamore has joined Broadway Video, New York, as senior Avid editor…….New York-based motion graphics and editorial boutique The Wilderness has named Lisa Young as its executive producer. She had most recently served as a freelance producer. Prior to that, she had been co-head of broadcast production at Arnold Worldwide, New York….Bob Fernley has been named director of Digital Intermediate (DI) operations at LaserPacific, Hollywood. Fernley comes from Hollywood-based Efilm, where he had been a DI producer since ’03, and will be responsible for guiding the postproduction facility’s operations in the DI arena…
