Directors Adam Reed, Valerio Ventura and Kurt Burk have joined Santa Monica-based BeachHouse Films. Reed comes over from Elsewhere, Los Angeles. BeachHouse becomes Ventura’s first formal roost for U.S. spot representation. And Burk is a recent Art Center graduate…..Director Enno Jacobsen has come aboard Right Brain Films, Beverly Hills, for exclusive spot representation. He continues to be handled in Europe by Neue Sentimental Film, Frankfurt, Germany…..Venice, Calif.-based visual effects studio Digital Domain has formed an alliance with Richard A. Greenberg for the production of feature film title graphics. Greenberg was a founding partner in the graphics studio R/Greenberg Associates, New York, and has worked on features, trailers, shorts, spots and visual effects. His main titles credits include Mission Impossible 2, The Matrix, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, The World According to Garp, Braveheart, JFK, Twister, Back to the Future and Tootsie….JSM has opened a satellite office in Venice, Calif. JSM/West will be headed up by executive producer Victoria Villalobos, who will be relocating to the West Coast….New York postproduction facility Moving Images is opening a film developing lab at the end of September. The new company, called the Lab at Moving Images, has secured Domenic Rom, formerly executive VP of DuArt Film and Video, New York, to run the service.
Oscar Nominees Delve Into The Art Of Editing At ACE Session
You couldn’t miss Sean Baker at this past Sunday’s Oscar ceremony where he won for Best Picture, Directing, Original Screenplay and Editing on the strength of Anora. However, earlier that weekend he was in transit from the Cesar Awards in Paris and thus couldn’t attend the American Cinema Editors (ACE) 25th annual panel of Academy Award-nominated film editors held at the Regal LA Live Auditorium on Saturday (3/1) in Los Angeles. While the eventual Oscar winner in the editing category was missed by those who turned out for the ACE “Invisible Art, Visible Artists” session, three of Baker’s fellow nominees were on hand--Dávid Jancsó, HSE for The Brutalist; Nick Emerson for Conclave; and Myron Kerstein, ACE for Wicked. Additionally, Juliette Welfling, who couldn’t appear in person due to the Cesar Awards, was present via an earlier recorded video interview to discuss her work on Emilia Pérez. The interview was conducted by ACE president and editor Sabrina Plisco, ACE who also moderated the live panel discussion. Kerstein said that he was the beneficiary of brilliant and generous collaborators, citing, among others, director Jon M. Chu, cinematographer Alice Brooks, and visual effects supervisor Pablo Helman. The editor added it always helps to have stellar acting performances, noting that hearing Cynthia Erivo, for example, sing live was a revelation. Kerstein recalled meeting Chu some eight years ago on a “blind Skype date” and it was an instant “bromance”--which began on Crazy Rich Asians, and then continued on such projects as the streaming series Home Before Dark and the feature In The Heights. Kerstein observed that Chu is expert in providing collaborators with... Read More