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Early next month, Richard Cormier is set to join Oak Park, Mich.-based GTN as its president. He will work closely with GTN owner/CEO Doug Cheek. Cormier’s last staff position was as VP of New York-based Nice Shoes, as well as managing director of its sister companies Guava and Freestyle Collective…..New York-based design/visual effects/animation house Click 3x has teamed with editor Billy Senia to launch Habitat, a creative editorial boutique serving the advertising and broadcast sectors. The new venture features three editors and three Avid-based editorial suites located within Click 3x’s studios. Jason Mayo, executive producer of Click 3x, will assume the same role for Habitat. Also coming on board Habitat are editors Rob Campbell, who shifts over from Click 3x, and Aimee Lyde, who had formerly been freelancing. Senia was last on staff at Slingshot, New York….Chicago-based Ebel Productions has promoted Jason Schettler to executive producer. Over the last eight years, he has served as a producer and assistant director for the shop, which maintains a directorial roster consisting of Bob Ebel and Bill Ebel. Additionally, Clayton Hauck has come aboard as editor/creative assistant, and assistant business manager Jay Riippi has been promoted to production coordinator…..Jeremy McWilliams has been named executive producer of the advertising division of London-based New Moon. He previously was with @radical.media, London, and earlier served as managing director of Mustard Films, London….Q Music, a New York-based music/sound design venture founded by composer/producer Drazen Bosnjak, has opened an Amsterdam shop, establishing a foothold in the European ad market…..Emily Bliss and Michelle Stapleton, founders of London-based Brave Films, have decided to go their separate ways. Bliss will head up a rebranded Brave, which is to be called Home. Stapleton is expected to soon announce her future plans…..Category:Street Talk
Breakout Films and Major Takeaways From This Year’s Sundance Fest
Film wasn't the only thing on people's minds at this year's Sundance Film Festival, which comes to a close Sunday in Park City, Utah ( and online ).
The effects of the wildfires in Southern California loomed large, as did the bittersweet knowledge that this year will be the second to last Sundance based in Park City. Some films offered an escape from reality; others were a pointed reminder of the domestic and international political landscape, from transgender rights to the war in Ukraine.
Here are some of the key takeaways from the 41st edition of the festival.
The effects of the Southern California fires were deeply felt
The wildfires were still burning in parts of Los Angeles when Sundance began last week and reminders of its devastation were everywhere, even on screen. Max Walker-Silverman's "Rebuilding," starring Josh O'Connor as a cowboy who loses his ranch in a wildfire and forms a community with fellow survivors in a FEMA camp, hit close to home for many.
Filmmakers Meena Menon and Paul Gleason lost their home in Altadena where they filmed some of their zombie apocalypse movie "Didn't Die." Sundance artist labs head Michelle Satter lost her Palisades home as well. Satter had an audience of Sundance Institute donors in tears early in the festival while accepting an honor at a fundraising gala.
"It's a deeply devastating time for us and so many others, a moment that calls for all of us coming together to support our bigger community," Satter said. "As a friend recently noted, and I have to listen to this, 'Take a deep breath ... We lost our village, but at the end of the day we are the village.'"
The festival's move to another city dominated conversations
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