Director Jeffrey Darling has come aboard bicoastal/international Believe Media. He formerly was represented via bicoastal/international @radical.media….Filmworkers Club, Chicago, and its 35mm motion picture film lab affiliate, Astro Labs, are building a digital intermediate pipeline to service independent film and advertising clients. The companies have acquired a da Vinci Splice, a telecine device that enables them to offer high resolution color grading and finishing services for film projects. Splice, which will be paired with the companies’ existing Spirit 2K film scanners, will also allow them to offer non-linear, in context color correction for SD, HD and theatrical spots. The companies’ DI pipeline will also employ Grass Valley/Thomson’s LUTher technology for color management. The DI service is expected to be fully operational by fall…..Bicoastal Post Logic Studios has brought colorist Corinne Bogdanowicz on board to join its Hollywood facility. She joins Post Logic from Pacific Title, where she first became involved in the world of DI….Creative director Steven Nasi and director of information architecture David Sansone have joined Agency.com, New York. They will work across multiple accounts, teaming with creative director Kate Cohen. Nasi comes over from Ogilvy & Mather, New York, where he was partner/associate creative director, working with clients including IBM, Time Warner Cable, American Express and Sprite. Sansome formerly served as director of user experience for the Freelancers Union. Prior to that, he was interaction design lead at R/GA, New York….
“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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