Bicoastal/international Hungry Man just gotten a bit more international, launching an office in Rio de Janeiro. Heading up the new operation in Brazil is managing director Alex Mehedff….Director Annabel Jankel, the “J” on the door at bicoastal/international MJZ, has joined Santa Monica-based harvest. Jankel enjoyed a successful 15-year run at MJZ before deciding to sell her stake in the company to president David Zander and her former husband, director Rocky Morton. Now at harvest, Jankel has already wrapped some viral fare for Go Fast energy drink. She also recently completed viral Greenpeace work to promote action against global warming….Director Matthew Vaughn has signed with bicoastal HSI for U.S. spot representation. He continues to be handled in the U.K. by Paul Weiland Film Company….Sheila Stepanek, former Los Angeles-based executive producer at Partizan, has returned to the company as CEO. The bicoastal/international shop has also secured Melanie McEvoy, formerly of HSI, as executive producer and East Coast head of sales….Trio Films, Los Angeles, has signed director/DP Thomas Kloss…. Argyle Films has opened in Los Angeles under the aegis of executive producer Marlon Staggs, formerly of Rhythm & Hues Commercials. The new venture’s directorial roster consists of Randy Roberts, who came over with Staggs from Rhythm & Hues, and John Mastromonaco, who wrapped a six-year run at Bravo Zulu, Santa Monica…..Director Tony Garcia, has signed with This Is TV, New York….
Writers of “Conclave,” “Say Nothing” Win Scripter Awards
The authors and screenwriters behind the film โConclaveโ and the series โSay Nothingโ won the 37th-annual USC Libraries Scripter Awards during a black-tie ceremony at USCโs Town and Gown ballroom on Saturday evening (2/22).
The Scripter Awards recognize the yearโs most accomplished adaptations of the written word for the screen, including both feature-length films and episodic series.
Novelist Robert Harris and screenwriter Peter Straughan took home the award for โConclave.โ
In accepting the award, Straughan said, โAdaptation is a really strange process, youโre very much the servant of two masters. In a way itโs an act of betrayal of one master for the other.โ He joked that โYou start off with a book that you love, you read it again and again, and then you end up throwing it over your shoulder,โ crediting author Robert Harris for being โso kind, so generous, so open throughout.โ
In the episodic series category, Joshua Zetumer and Patrick Radden Keefe won for the episode โThe People in the Dirtโ from the limited series โSay Nothing,โ which Zetumer adapted from Keefeโs nonfiction book about the Troubles in Ireland.
Zetumer referenced this yearโs extraordinary group of Scripter finalists, saying โprojects like these reminded me of why I wanted to become a writer when I was sitting in USCโs Leavey Library dreaming of becoming a screenwriter. If you fell in love with movies, or fell in love with TV, chances are you fell in love with something dangerous.โ
Special guest for the evening, actress and producer Jennifer Beals, shared her thoughts on the impact of libraries. โIf ever you are at a loss wondering if there is good in the world,โ she said, โyou have only to go to a... Read More