The Massachusetts Senate’s Ways and Means Committee has unveiled a budget for fiscal year 2002-’03 that provides no funding for the Massachusetts Film Office. The state is facing an estimated budget deficit of some $2 billion for the fast approaching fiscal year. Stay tuned….Director Miguel Liebermann has come aboard Area 51 Films, the Santa Monica shop headed by managing director Mark Thomas, for exclusive spot representation…..Directors Michel Charpentier and Peter Darrell have joined Treat, the bicoastal commercial production arm of creative services shop Dogmatic, also bicoastal. Additionally, Kathrin Lausch has joined Treat as exec producer….Composer Espen Noreger has come aboard Bang Music, New York….Los Angeles-headquartered music and sound design house Groove Addicts is opening a Chicago creative office, with producer/composer Howard Pfeifer serving as its creative director….New York-based earth2mars has added editors Jorge Vallejo and Robert Pennington to its roster…. Composer Edward Bilous is now available for commercial work exclusively via Smack Music + Sound, New York.… Bob English and Maribeth Phillips have launched thebritpack, a New York-based design company offering strategic visual solutions for the broadcast and advertising industries….Directors Doran Smith and Francesco Cabras have entered into agreements for spot and music video representation via AP+Films International, a shop with offices in Los Angeles, Aspen and Miami….Director Brian Ades, formerly of New York-based Focus, has joined Right Brain Films, Beverly Hills….Visual effects director Hilton Treves, best known for his work in Johannesburg, has come aboard Spin Productions, Toronto and Atlanta….Editor Jon Francis (the son of the director with the same name) has joined Rough House Editorial, San Francisco…. Director Rob Cohen has just completed three months of shooting in Prague on the feature XXX, starring Vin Diesel and Samuel L. Jackson, and is again available for commercials through Los Angeles-headquartered Original Film….
London Critics Name “The Brutalist” The Film of the Year
The Brutalist, Brady Corbet’s immigrant saga, won the Film of the Year prize at the 45th London Critics’ Circle Film Awards.
While The Brutalist garnered just one award, it was the marquee honor. Meanwhile Nickel Boys, Conclave and A Real Pain all receivd multiple awards, and Zoe Saldaña was honored twice.
Edward Berger’s Vatican thriller Conclave took two awards for British/Irish Film of the Year and Actor of the Year for Ralph Fiennes, while RaMell Ross’s radical Colson Whitehead adaptation Nickel Boys was recognized with Director of the Year and the Technical Achievement Award for Jomo Fray’s first-person cinematography. Jesse Eisenberg’s dark comedy A Real Pain was the night’s other multiple prizewinner, landing Screenwriter of the Year for the actor-filmmaker, and Supporting Actor of the Year for co-star Kieran Culkin.
Payal Kapadia’s Mumbai-set drama All We Imagine as Light was named Foreign Language Film of the Year, while the Palestinian-Israeli collective behind No Other Land took Documentary of the Year.
Alongside Conclave, British productions awarded by the Circle in the top categories included Mike Leigh’s intimate character study Hard Truths, which took Actress of the Year for Marianne Jean-Baptiste, while Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl was named Animated Feature of the Year. In the British/Irish-specific categories, Saoirse Ronan won British/Irish Performer of the Year for her performances in The Outrun and Blitz, 14-year-old Nykiya Adams won Young British/Irish Performer of the Year for her screen debut in Andrea Arnold’s Bird, and Rich Peppiatt won the... Read More