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Director Andrews Jenkins, formerly of Food Chain Films, Portland, Ore., has joined bicoastal Go Film. In early 2003, Robert Wherry and Jonathan Weinstein, partners/executive producers in Go Film, became partners in Food Chain along with its executive producer David Cress. (Gary Rose has since joined Go as a partner/executive producer.) Per the partnership, Go Film handled the Food Chain roster of directors nationally. Now Wherry, Weinstein and Cress have disbanded their partnership. Cress will maintain Food Chain with directors Marc Greenfield and Vance Malone. The company will continue to pursue commercial projects, as well as diversify more meaningfully into the direct market….RSA and Blackdog Films–both bicoastal and in London–have signed noted Swedish directors Jonas Akerlund and Johan Renck for spot and music clip representation in the U.S. and the U.K. RSA will handle commercials while its sister shop Blackdog takes on music video assignments for the directors who work individually but are business partners at Renck Akerlund Films (RAF), Stockholm. Previously, RAF was repped stateside via bicoastal HSI Productions and in the U.K. through Exposure Films, London….Crossroads Films, bicoastal and Chicago–via its ongoing reciprocal relationship with Cowboy Films, London–has secured stateside spot representation for director Roger Michell, whose feature helming credits include Enduring Love, Notting Hill and Changing Lanes. Cowboy handles U.K. representation for Michell….DNA, Hollywood, has secured music video and commercial representation for directors Thom Oliphant and Steven Goldmann. Oliphant and Goldmann recently shuttered their production company, The Collective, LLC, to focus on directing, with DNA handling production and repping….Actor/director John Leguizamo, who’s currently starring in Assault on Precinct 13, is again available to helm commercials through CFM International, New York….Category:Street Talk
SUPERLATIVE Signs Director Claudia Abend For Spots and Branded Content
Latin American director/editor and documentary filmmaker Claudia Abend has joined SUPERLATIVE for her first U.S. representation spanning commercials and branded content.
Abend's empathetic docu-style POV has garnered several international awards for the documentary films Hit (2008) and The Flower of Life (2018). Her spotmaking credits include such brands as Procter & Gamble, Nestle and Blue Cross/Blue Shield. SUPERLATIVE has already worked with Abend, together producing a new ad campaign for digital agency Tinuiti and The Honest Company, a consumer goods corporation featuring eco-minded products.
“We found Claudia through her poignant documentaries on the festival circuit,” said SUPERLATIVE creative manager Stefan Dezil. “We are excited about her textured narratives, emotional storytelling, and her powerhouse long-form storytelling abilities, currently on her third feature film. As SUPERLATIVE continues to build our brand after premiering our latest films at Sundance and SXSW, Claudia is the kind of multidimensional artist we are excited to partner with on branded content and beyond. Fluent in English and Spanish, her reel shows real prowess with infants, food and skin products, families both young and old. Great visual storytelling and inspirational doc work.”
Abend began her career in her native Uruguay, studying film and editing in college. “My dad would show me films like Citizen Kane,” she said. “I love cinema and became an editor. It was here that I learned all about communicating human emotion.”
From the get-go, Abend hit it big as a documentary director, teaming with Adrianna Loeff on Hit, a movie chronicling pop artists of Uruguayan music. Abend took home a Best Editing... Read More
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