Jason Kemp has been named managing director of bicoastal/international @radical.media’s London office. Kemp most recently served as a freelance producer for many of London’s top production houses. He will succeed @radical’s Jonathan Davis, who is returning to the ad agency side of the business. Also playing an active role in supporting the London office and Kemp will be veteran @radical executive producer Tommy Turtle….The Sweet Shop’s U.S. operation continues to grow with the signing of director Julian Pugsley, a noted agency creative who has made the transition to helming. Pugsley began his career at BBH, London, and later served as an art director at McCann Erickson, Singapore where he went on to become group creative director in both Singapore and Thailand before moving to DMB&B, Hong Kong. He then relocated stateside, joining Kirshenbaum Bond, New York, as a group creative director, followed by a stint in the same capacity at Mullen in Wenham, Mass. Pugsley returned to New York as group creative director at Berlin Cameron Red Cell where he was instrumental in helping that agency secure the Coca-Cola business…..Michael Porte, a founding partner of audio post/music and sound design house audioEngine, has left the company to pursue other interests. Porte’s ownership stake in the firm, which has bases of operation in New York and Phoenix, is being acquired by his former founding partners. AudioEngine opened in 2002 with partners Porte, Rex Recker, Joe Vagnoni, Bob Giammarco, Tom Goldblatt and Brian Wick….Jay Sienkwicz has joined Guava, New York, as design director.
“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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