Corwin Cuts Dylan, Idlewild, People in the News
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…
First-Time Feature Directors Make Major Splash At AFI Fest, Generate Oscar Buzz
Two first-time feature directors who are generating Oscar buzz this awards season were front and center this past weekend at AFI Fest in Hollywood. Rachel Morrison, who made history as the first woman nominated for a Best Cinematography Oscar---on the strength of Mudbound in 2018--brought her feature directorial debut, The Fire Inside (Amazon MGM Studios), to the festival on Sunday (10/27), and shared insights into the film during a conversation session immediately following the screening. This came a day after William Goldenberg, an Oscar-winning editor for Argo in 2013, had his initial foray into feature directing, Unstoppable (Amazon MGM Studios), showcased at the AFI proceedings. He too spoke after the screening during a panel discussion. The Fire Inside--which made its world premiere at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival--tells the story of Claressa “T-Rex” Shields (portrayed by Ryan Destiny), a Black boxer from Flint, Mich., who trained to become the first woman in U.S. history to win an Olympic Gold Medal in the sport. She achieved this feat--with the help of coach Jason Crutchfield (Brian Tyree Henry)--only to find that her victory at the Summer Games came with relatively little fanfare and no endorsement deals. So much for the hope that the historic accomplishment would be a ticket out of socioeconomic purgatory for Shields and her family. It seemed like yet another setback in a cycle of adversity throughout Shields’ life but she persevered, going on to win her second Gold Medal at the next Olympics and becoming a champion for gender equality and equitable pay for women in sports. Shields has served as a source of inspiration for woman athletes worldwide--as well as to the community of... Read More