Director Lenard Dorfman has joined bicoastal/international Moxie Pictures for commercial and music video representation in the U.S. He comes over from bicoastal/international MJZ.
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Director Lenard Dorfman has joined bicoastal/international Moxie Pictures for commercial and music video representation in the U.S. He comes over from bicoastal/international MJZ. In terms of European representation, Dorfman will be at the as yet unnamed London shop recently formed by directors Daniel Kleinman and Ringan Ledwidge…..Director Nic Mathieu has come aboard A Band Apart, Los Angeles….Curious Pictures, New York, has signed Toronto-based Electric Company for U.S. representation. Known for its work in motion graphics and animation, Electric Company has a directorial roster that includes iamstatic (Roin Gervais, Randy Knott, David Greene), Play Airways (Josh Rankin, Alex Kurina, Kent Hugo), Kangaroo Alliance (animators Lauren Gregg, Craig Sheldon) and Crankbunny (Norma Toraya)…..Los Angeles-based Roses Are Blue has signed director Keith Schofield, who’s best known for his music video work (DJ Format’s “3 Feet Deep,” Wintergreen’s “When I Wake Up,” Death Cab for Cutie’s “Jealousy Rides With Me”)….New York design/animation studio FlickerLab has added director of animation Eric Merola. Prior to FlickerLab, Merola maintained Merola Productions, New York…..Oink Ink Radio, New York, which maintains sister studio 38 Greene in Manhattan, has extended its reach to the West Coast, launching Oink Ink Radio in Venice, Calif. Former BBDO New York radio producer Karen Jean has been named exec producer of the Venice operation….Review: Writer-Director Andrea Arnold’s “Bird”
"Is it too real for ya?" blares in the background of Andrea Arnold's latest film, "Bird," a 12-year-old Bailey (Nykiya Adams) rides with her shirtless, tattoo-covered dad, Bug (Barry Keoghan), on his electric scooter past scenes of poverty in working-class Kent.
The song's question — courtesy of the Irish post-punk band Fontains D.C. — is an acute one for "Bird." Arnold's films ( "American Honey," "Fish Tank") are rigorous in their gritty naturalism. Her fiction films — this is her first in eight years — tend toward bleak, hand-held verité in rough-and-tumble real-world locations. Her last film, "Cow," documented a mother cow separated from her calf on a dairy farm.
Arnold specializes in capturing souls, human and otherwise, in soulless environments. A dream of something more is tantalizing just out of reach. In "American Honey," peace comes to Star (Sasha Lane) only when she submerges underwater.
In "Bird," though, this sense of otherworldly possibility is made flesh, or at least feathery. After a confusing night, Bailey awakens in a field where she encounters a strange figure in a skirt ( Franz Rogowski ) who arrives, like Mary Poppins, with a gust a wind. His name, he says, is Bird. He has a soft sweetness that doesn't otherwise exist in Bailey's hardscrabble and chaotic life.
She's skeptical of him at first, but he keeps lurking about, hovering gull-like on rooftops. He cranes his neck now and again like he's watching out for Bailey. And he does watch out for her, helping Bailey through a hard coming of age: the abusive boyfriend (James Nelson-Joyce) of her mother (Jasmine Jobson); her half brother (Jason Buda) slipping into vigilante violence; her father marrying a new girlfriend.
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