Todd Riddle has been promoted from group creative director to creative director at Fallon Minneapolis. He succeeds Kerry Feuerman who resigned from the agency last week after just 13 months in the position. Riddle has been group creative director on Travelers Insurance, Holiday Inn and The Bahamas Ministry of Tourism. Prior to Fallon, Riddle worked in Boston at Arnold Worldwide and earlier at Hill Holliday and Houston Effler…..U.K. house Draw Pictures has signed director Michael Williams, formerly of The Mob, London. Highlighting his spot credits is the 2006 World Cup campaign for Pringles featuring athletes Steven Gerrard, Roberto Carlos and Freddie Ljungberg, as well as work for Sony PlayStation. Williams has also been active in music videos (for such artists as Roni Size and Shapeshifters) and documentaries (What Rio Did…”). Additionally Draw has hired commercials producer Greg Magloire….Rachel Kaminek has been named executive producer/director of operations at New York-based motion graphics, 3D animation and visual effects shop Manic. Kaminek previously served as senior producer at Superfad and Brand New School, and executive producer at Sway….
“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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