New York-based cYclops Productions has signed Calabazitaz Tiernaz for exclusive spot representation. Calabazitaz Tiernaz is a Mexican directing collective comprised of brothers Everado and Leopoldo Gout; producer/director/cinematographer Mario Mandujano and producer Jorge Canedo are also available via the arrangement….Scott Williams, principal in Flipside Editorial, San Francisco and Santa Monica, is forming Retina, a telecine house in San Francisco. The new shop—a totally separate venture from Flipside—is scheduled to open on May 1. Its resources will include a Spirit 2K telecine system and a Quantel iQ hi-def editing system…..Industry vet Mike Dowd is launching Vapor Post. The Miami-based digital postproduction facility is slated to open on March 1….Los Angeles-based 1171 Production Group has added two music video directors: Ethan Lader and the mono-monikered Farah….Easyway Editorial, Dallas, has added Brad Briggs, Grant Pye and George Kelly to its roster, marketing them exclusively in Texas…. This past weekend, Conrad L. Hall posthumously won the coveted Annual Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Outstanding Achievement Award in the feature film category for Road to Perdition. Best known as a feature cinematographer, Hall—who died on January 4—also directed numerous commercials via the now defunct spot shop Wexler/Hall. This marked the record-setting fourth time that Hall topped the ASC’s feature competition. The ASC Award was accepted on Hall’s behalf by his son, DP Conrad W. Hall….
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