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Feature film director Lisa Cholodenko (Laurel Canyon, High Art) has signed with bicoastal/international Partizan for commercial representation….Director Aaron Stoller, known for creating and directing assorted notable spots and promos at MTV, has come aboard Venice, Calif.-based Backyard for exclusive representation. Stoller broke into MTV’s on-air promotions department as an intern and then moved up the ladder, eventually becoming a director. While still at MTV, Stoller directed several Backyard-produced commercials for such clients as Nintendo, Anheuser-Busch, Pringles and Frito-Lay…..Mirror Films, Hollywood, headed by exec producer Eric Barrett, has added director Kevin Kerslake, whose experience spans spots, music videos, episodic TV and documentaries. Over the past several years, Kerslake focused primarily on screenwriting whild doing client-direct work with action sports clients Burton, Quiksilver and DC Shoes via his own company, Gigantic. His joining Mirror signals his return to commercialmaking. Also coming aboard Mirror is head of production Ali Hileman….Director/DP Gordon Willis, Jr., has signed with Santa Monica-based BeachHouse Films….Director Scott McCullough, formerly of BeachHouse, has joined Story, with offices in Chicago, Santa Monica and New York, for exclusive national spot representation….Sparks Productions, Toronto, has taken on representation in Canada for comedy director Frank Devos of Lovo Films, Belgium. He continues to be repped stateside by Saville Productions, Beverly Hills…….Stefanie Hirschtritt, a former producer at J. Walter Thompson, New York, has come aboard Ohio Edit, New York, as a producer….Producer Lisa Houck, formerly of Spot Welders, New York, has joined Phoenix Edit, Effects & Design, San Francisco…..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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