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….
Lensing and Designing Brady Corbet’s “The Brutalist”
Cinematographer Lol Crawley, BSC and production designer Judy Becker collaborated for the first time on The Brutalist (A24) and emerged as Oscar nominees in their respectiveย disciplines. Their work on the film has also earned major recognition elsewhere on the industry awards circuit. Just this week, Crawley won the British Society of Cinematographersโ Feature Film Award. He also is currently a nominee for both an ASC Award and a BAFTA Film Award. And Becker received nominations for a BAFTA Film Award and an Art Directors Guild (ADG) Excellence in Production Design Award. Crawley and Becker, though, traversed distinctly different paths to The Brutalist, being on opposite ends of the collaborative continuum with director and co-writer Brady Corbet going into the film. Crawley had already shot two features for Corbet prior to The Brutalist--The Childhood of a Leader (2015) and Vox Lux (2018). In sharp contrast, The Brutalist marked Beckerโs first time working with Corbet. Becker recalled seeing The Childhood of a Leader and immediately wanting to design for Corbet. Describing herself as โstunnedโ by the film, she related that it reflected Corbetโs talent as a filmmaker, his ability to work within a budget on a period movie and still deliver an end product that looked fantastic while brilliantly telling a story. Becker noted that a big budget period film replete with tons of set dressing, over-dressed locations and the like misses the mark for her. She asked, โWhy waste that money?โ But when Becker sees a period movie with a pared down budget that looks so good, โIโm really blown away.โ Based on The Childhood of a Leader, Becker told her agent that sheโd love to... Read More