Director/cameraman Craig Henderson has come aboard Area 51 Films, Santa Monica. His last spot affiliation was Stiefel+Company, but when that shop was acquired by bicoastal/international @radical.media last September, he elected to explore his options…..Director Brandon Dickerson has joined X-Ray Productions, bicoastal and Chicago. He was previously represented by kaboom!, San Francisco….Director David Popescu has signed with bicoastal production company Zooma Zooma. A comedy specialist, Popescu receives his first stateside representation via Zooma Zooma. Popescu is repped in Canada by Sparks Productions, Toronto….Stefan Sonnenfeld is staying on as president/managing director of Company 3, which has operations in Santa Monica and New York. Parent company Ascent Media Group announced that Sonnenfeld, a Santa Monica-based colorist, has signed a long-term renewal of his contract with the shop.….Andy Solomon has come on board as head of production at New York-based music/sound design house Tonal….3-D artist Tony Tabtong has left Curious Pictures, New York, and joined hybrid postproduction/design/graphics firm, Charlex, New York, as its new senior character animator…Alexis Wiscomb has joined Post Factory, New York, as senior producer. Wiscomb comes over from Final Cut, New York, where she was a producer….Industry vets Andrea Aron and Sandy Beladino have launched Santa Monica-based commercial online/compositing studio Vendetta Post. The new venture’s roster includes artists/editors James Bygrave and Pete Mayor. The formation of the shop marks a reunion for Aron, Beladino, Bygrave and Mayor who formerly worked at The Finish Line, Santa Monica. Beladino was exec producer at The Finish Line, while Aron served as a producer/post supervisor…GTN Travelling Pictures, the visual effects division of production/postproduction facility GTN Inc., Oak Park, Mich., has hired visual effects artist Michael Orlando. Most recently, Orlando was a CGI artist at Industrial Light+ Magic, San Rafael, Calif….Los Angeles-based label Vagrant Records has launched Vagrant Entertainment, a creative, production and development subsidiary serving the advertising and entertainment sectors. Ad/promo industry veteran Andrew Kobliska has been named to head the new venture….
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