Director Tim Royes was laid to rest today in London as the industry continues to mourn his tragic passing. Royes was fatally struck by a car in Manhattan earlier this month. As a director, he had been repped by Academy Films, London, and earlier RSA. He made his first major mark as an editor before successfully making the transition to the director’s chair. To share and read remembrances and to donate in Royes’ memory to one of his favorite charities, log onto www.timroyes.com….Laura Madalinski, an assistant editor at Outsider, Chicago, was named Grand Prize editing winner at the Trailer Park 2007 competition held the month in the Windy City. Trailer Park is an Association of Independent Creative Editors (AICE)-sponsored event which gives assistant editors the opportunity to showcase their editing prowess by cutting a :90 trailer for a selected feature, either selling or spoofing it in a different genre. Madalinski won on the strength of the trailer she cut for Hero. First runner up in the competition was Ruben Vela of Optimus for his Departed trailer. Second runner up was Outsider’s Brian Hepner for a St. Elmo’s Fire trailer….Sarah Nahas has joined Curious Pictures, New York, as a senior staff producer and bidder. Prior to joining mixed media and animation house Curious, Nahas was a New York-based freelance producer working for production houses on both visual effects and live-action jobs….
DGA Spot Nominees: Lance Acord, Kim Gehrig, Tim Heidecker & Eric Wareheim, Andreas Nilsson, Ivan Zacharias
This year’s field of nominees for the Directors Guild of America (DGA) Award recognizing Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Commercials consists of a filmmaker who’s won the honor each of the last two years, another past winner, a five-time nominee, a helmer who’s just picked up his second career nod, and a duo garnering their very first Guild nomination. The latter is the directorial team of Tim Heidecker & Eric Wareheim of production house PRETTYBIRD. The director now going for her third consecutive DGA Award win is Kim Gehrig of Somesuch. The other past winner is Andreas Nilsson of Biscuit Filmworks. Nilsson won the honor in 2016 and now has three career nominations. Lance Acord of Park Pictures just earned his fifth career DGA Award nomination in the commercials category--his four prior nods coming in 2004, 2012, 2013 and 2017. And scoring his second career DGA nod is Ivan Zacharias of SMUGGLER who was previously nominated in 2023. The work Gehrig earned her third straight nomination on the strength of three entries: SiriusXM’s “A Life in Sound” for agency Uncommon; Nike’s “Am I A Bad Person?” for Wieden+Kennedy, and the Apple client-direct spot titled “Find Your Friends.” Nilsson’s latest nomination came for Hennessy’s “Board Game” out of Wieden+Kennedy London; Andrex’s “First Office Poo” for FCB London; the client-direct Apple spot “One More”; and Virgin Media’s “Whizzer” for VCCP London. Acord’s fifth career nod is for Volkswagen’s “An American Love Story” out of agency Johannes Leonardo. Zacharias’ second career nomination is for Apple’s “Flock” out of TBWAMedia Arts Lab. And the duo of Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim nabbed their first... Read More