Music supervisor George Drakoulias, best known for his feature film work (Blades of Glory), has joined New York-based Search Party. Drakoulias’ signing comes on the heels of his successful collaboration with the Search Party team on Hammer and Coop, the six-episode online series created by agency Butler Shine Stern and Partners, Sausalito, Calif., in support of the 2007 Mini Cooper and Cooper S cars. Director Todd Phillips of Moxie Pictures directed the series, an homage to 1970s and ’80s cop buddy shows…..Andrew Clarke has joined JWT New York where he will lead creative efforts globally on Diageo’s Smirnoff. He comes over from Carmichael Lynch, Minneapolis. Kash Sree, who had been freelancing at JWT New York, now comes on staff to oversee creative on Unilever’s Sunsilk….Senior Flame artist Rachel Mills has returned to Golden Square Post Production, London, after nearly a year on maternity leave. She came to Golden Square in ’03 from Glassworks, London….Editors Inome Callahan and Lee Gardner have joined Radium, the digital studio with shops in San Francisco, Santa Monica and Dallas. Callahan’s experience includes serving as editor at Mad River Post, San Francisco. Gardner had been freelancing, frequently working with Radium; earlier he was a staffer at now defunct Western Images. Callahan will be based in Radium’s San Francisco studio while Gardner works out of the Santa Monica office….Kristin Redman has come aboard Detroit-based creative editorial house Start (a sister company to Universal Images) as executive producer. She previously served as head of production at Leo Burnett, Detroit.
“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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