Penny Reid has resigned as CEO of the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival. Reid, who started at the Festival in January, is leaving for personal reasons. She previously was joint CEO at Tequila, London. Festival organizers plan to soon recruit Reid’s successor, who will continue to be report to Cannes Lions exec chairman Terry Savage….The Hollywood Post Alliance (HPA) has announced the call for entries for its debut HPA Awards. As earlier reported (SHOOT, 2/24), the HPA launched the annual competition in order to recognize creative and technical excellence in the art, science and craft of postproduction, filling what the organization believes is a void on the awards show circuit. The inaugural HPA Awards ceremony is slated to take place on the evening of Nov. 1 in Los Angeles. The HPA Awards invites entries to 13 categories. These include outstanding color grading, outstanding editing, outstanding audio post, and outstanding compositing in three disciplines–features, TV and commercials, which account for 12 of the categories. The remaining category is engineering excellence. The period of eligibility is from Sept. 4, 2005 to Sept. 3, ’06. Eligible work may have premiered domestically or internationally during this period. Entrants need not be members of the HPA to submit work. Complete rules, guidelines and entry forms are available at www.hpaawards.net. Entries will be accepted through Sept. 1. Early bird fees apply until Aug. 9. Nominations will be announced in the fall……Jeff Johnson has been named general manger of Cramer-Krasselt/Hampel Stefanides, New York. For the past year, he had headed up his own Hourglass Consulting. Prior to that, he served as president/CEO of WestWayne. His agency pedigree also includes his having been an executive VP/managing partner at Wells Rich Greene BDDP, New York…..
Oscar Nominees Delve Into The Art Of Editing At ACE Session
You couldn’t miss Sean Baker at this past Sunday’s Oscar ceremony where he won for Best Picture, Directing, Original Screenplay and Editing on the strength of Anora. However, earlier that weekend he was in transit from the Cesar Awards in Paris and thus couldn’t attend the American Cinema Editors (ACE) 25th annual panel of Academy Award-nominated film editors held at the Regal LA Live Auditorium on Saturday (3/1) in Los Angeles. While the eventual Oscar winner in the editing category was missed by those who turned out for the ACE “Invisible Art, Visible Artists” session, three of Baker’s fellow nominees were on hand--Dávid Jancsó, HSE for The Brutalist; Nick Emerson for Conclave; and Myron Kerstein, ACE for Wicked. Additionally, Juliette Welfling, who couldn’t appear in person due to the Cesar Awards, was present via an earlier recorded video interview to discuss her work on Emilia Pérez. The interview was conducted by ACE president and editor Sabrina Plisco, ACE who also moderated the live panel discussion. Kerstein said that he was the beneficiary of brilliant and generous collaborators, citing, among others, director Jon M. Chu, cinematographer Alice Brooks, and visual effects supervisor Pablo Helman. The editor added it always helps to have stellar acting performances, noting that hearing Cynthia Erivo, for example, sing live was a revelation. Kerstein recalled meeting Chu some eight years ago on a “blind Skype date” and it was an instant “bromance”--which began on Crazy Rich Asians, and then continued on such projects as the streaming series Home Before Dark and the feature In The Heights. Kerstein observed that Chu is expert in providing collaborators with... Read More