Directorial team The Hughes Brothers has entered into a deal with Greatguns: USA, Venice, Calif., for spot representation….Director Kathi Prosser has signed with The Sweet Shop’s New York office, under the aegis of U.S. managing director Steven Shore…..Kevin Teevens and Jack Crifasi have joined Doner, Southfield, Mich., in senior VP/creative director capacities. As a team, the two will be responsible for creative supervision of the agency’s PNC Financial Services account, as well as new business development activities. The pair began working together in 1994. Most recenty, they were at JWT, Detroit–Crifasi as senior partner/senior art director and Teevens as senior partner/senior writer on the Ford national account….Walt Doublestein, former director of video gaming and nontraditional marketing at BBDO Detroit, has joined bicoastal Channel M, a nontraditional media company which maintains a network of entertainment, lifestyle and retail venues……Steffi Binder has been promoted from VP, executive producer to senior VP/exec producer at Deutsch LA. She joined Deutsch in ’00 and has produced commercials for such clients as DirecTV, Chevy and TGI Fridays…..
“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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