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Executive producer Marlon Staggs has launched Sticks+Stones Studios, Los Angeles. The new venture opens with directors Randy Roberts, formerly of Rhythm & Hues, Los Angeles, and Jerry Brown, who comes over from Tombo, Hollywood… Lorenzo Benedick, founder/exec producer of Vagabond Films, New York, has teamed with head of sales Andrea Martins to launch Big Mama, a New York shop with a roster of directing talent from South America. The directorial lineup includes Michael Abt, Marcelo Galvao, Rodrigo Ferrari, Ivan Ortiz and Doc Robert…..The Mob Film Company, London, has signed director Steve Qua. He formerly served as creative/art director at U.K. ad agency Karmarama. Prior to that he was a freelance director….Director James McTeigue of Right Brain Media, Los Angeles, is once again available for commercials after having wrapped his feature debut, V For Vendetta, which is slated for release through Warner Bros. in March 2006….Commercial producer Anthony Nelson, most recently in charge of content development & acquisitions for Corbis’ motion division, has joined Chelsea Digital, New York, as executive producer….John Landis, who directs commercials and music videos through Los Angeles-based A Band Apart, has directed a segment for Showtime’s Masters of Horror series. Deer Woman, from a script by Landis’ son Max, is about a half-woman, half-deer creature. The segment is slated to run on Showtime in December…. If you are a member of the commercialmaking community who has a film that will be screened during the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and would like the project to be considered for coverage in SHOOT‘s Sundance roundup, send a screener to senior editor/creative and production Kristin Wilcha c/o SHOOT, 21 Charles St., Suite 203, Westport, CT 06880. You can also email info to kwilcha@shootonline.com….Category:Street Talk
“Atropia” and “Twinless” Win Marquee Prizes At Sundance Film Festival
The war satire “Atropia,” about actors in a military role-playing facility, won the grand jury prize in the Sundance Film Festival’s U.S. dramatic competition, while the Dylan O’Brien movie “Twinless” got the coveted audience award.
Juries and programmers for the 41st edition of the independent film festival announced the major prizewinners Friday in Park City, Utah.
Other grand jury winners included the documentaries “Seeds,” about farmers in rural Georgia and “Cutting Through the Rocks,” about the first elected councilwoman in an Iranian village. The Indian drama “Sabar Bonda (Cactus Pears),” about a city dweller mourning his father in the western Indian countryside, won the top prize in the world cinema competition.
“It’s for my dad,” said writer and director Rohan Parashuram Kanawade. His late father, he said, was the one who encouraged him to pursue filmmaking.
Audiences also get to vote on their own awards, where James Sweeney’s “Twinless,” about the bromance between two men who meet in a twin bereavement support group, triumphed in the U.S. dramatic category. O’Brien also won a special jury award for his acting.
The U.S. documentary audience award went to “André is an Idiot,” a life-affirming film about dying of colon cancer. Other audience picks were “Prime Minister,” about former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, and “DJ Ahmet,” a coming-of-age film about a 15-year-old boy in North Macedonia.
Mstyslav Chernov, the Oscar-winning Associated Press journalist, won the world cinema documentary directing award for his latest dispatch from Ukraine, “2000 Meters to Andriivka,” a joint production between the AP and PBS Frontline.
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