Director Greg Maya has rejoined bicoastal The Artists Company after a two-year absence. He comes over from Park Pictures, New York….Feature filmmaker Rob Cohen (XXX, Fast and The Furious) has joined the spot directorial roster of bicoastal Anonymous Content. His former stateside roost was bicoastal Original Film….Director Sash Andranikian has come aboard Bridge Street Films, New York, for U.S. representation, rounding out a directorial roster that also includes Chris Yurkow and Marilyn Agrelo. John Ficalora is the shop’s executive producer……Amy Kindred has joined creative design studio EyeballNYC as executive producer. She most recently held the same post at New York-based Pure. Also joining EyeballNYC is CFO/COO David Drucker….Designer Ders Hallgren has joined Headlight Design+VFX, New York, as creative director. Hallgren had been freelancing as an art director/director since 2001 at leading houses……New York-based motion graphics studio wildstyle has become Resident, bringing Scott Pryor on board as its managing director. Pryor has freelanced on both the post and agency sides of the industry. He was recently at post facility Brandname, a division of PS260, New York, preceded by a stay at Bates Worldwide….Venice, Calif.-based production house Roses Are Blue is changing its name to Caviar Los Angeles to correspond with the moniker of its Central European parent company, Caviar Belgium in Brussels. Michael Sagol and Tom Weissferdt are executive producers of Caviar Los Angeles, which has just added director Frank Devos to its roster….
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