Siblings, a New York-based original music company, and 38 Greene Studios, a sound design and mix facility, have combined resources at the latter's Soho location. While the two entities will work on projects autonomously they will collaborate on certain music and sound design projects, each extending the reach of the other. Siblings' creative effort is led by partner Mario Grigorov while key players at 38 Greene include partner Dan Price and head engineer Casey Chester….Culver City, Calif.-headquartered visual effects house Sway Studio has named Leighton Greer to serve as its head of production. Greer had been senior VFX producer at Zoic Studios….New York-based hybrid design/visual effects/editing house Perception has hired senior producer Jared Yeater, senior designer John LePore and print designer Danielle Palmstrom. Yeater comes over from the New York office of Minneapolis-based Twist Films….Venice, Calif.-based motion graphics studio Fish Eggs has brought Mandy Novak on board as executive producer. She most recently served as post supervisor on the NBC series Deal or No Deal….
Director Dag Johan Haugerud’s “Dreams (Sex Love)” Wins Top Prize At The Berlin Film Festival
A Norwegian film about love, desire and self-discovery won top honors at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival on Saturday.
A jury headed by American director Todd Haynes awarded the Golden Bear trophy to "Dreams (Sex Love)" by director Dag Johan Haugerud.
Haynes called it a "meditation on love" that "cuts you to the quick with its keen intelligence."
The film focuses on a teenager played by Ella Øverbyer, infatuated with her female French teacher, and the reactions of her mother and grandmother when they discover her private writings. It's the third part of a trilogy Haugerud has completed in the past year. "Sex" premiered at Berlin in 2024, and "Love" was screened at the 2024 Venice Film Festival.
The runner-up Silver Bear prize went to Brazilian director Gabriel Mascaro's dystopian drama "The Blue Trail." Argentine director Ivan Fund's rural saga "The Message" won the third-place Jury Prize.
The best director prize went to Huo Meng for "Living the Land," set in fast-changing 1990s China.
Rose Byrne was named best performer for her role as an overwhelmed mother in the Mary Bronstein-directed "If I Had Legs, I'd Kick You." Andrew Scott won the supporting performer trophy for playing composer Richard Rodgers in Richard Linklater's "Blue Moon."
The climax of the festival known as the Berlinale came on the eve of Germany's parliamentary elections after a campaign dominated by migration and the economy.
The national election is being held seven months early, after Chancellor Olaf Scholz's governing coalition collapsed in a dispute about how to revitalize the country's economy.
Efforts to curb migration have emerged as a central issue in the campaign — along with the question of how to handle the... Read More