Director Phil Lind has joined U.K. and U.S. production house HOME.corp for representation. He has spent a dozen years managing U.K. Channel 4’s on-air promotions, building a reel of high profile promo campaigns. His latest promotes chef Gordon Ramsay’s new TV series Gordon Behind Bars. This marks his last spot for Channel 4 as Lind was recently been appointed creative director at ITV Creative where he will lead the broadcaster’s in-house team….Portland, Ore.-based production company Mmmmm Society has added director James Westby to its collective of directors, animators, photographers and writers. Westby’s commercial work includes spots for Adidas and the University of Oregon, along with music videos for Storm Large (“8 Miles Wide”) and Oracle (“Wake”). His feature credits include Film Geek, The Auteur (which premiered at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival), and Rid of Me (a 2012 Tribeca debutante), which won best narrative feature honors at the Traverse City Film Festival, was acquired by Phase 4 Films, and is slated to premiere on Showtime in July….
Oscar Nominees Delve Into The Art Of Editing At ACE Session
You couldn’t miss Sean Baker at this past Sunday’s Oscar ceremony where he won for Best Picture, Directing, Original Screenplay and Editing on the strength of Anora. However, earlier that weekend he was in transit from the Cesar Awards in Paris and thus couldn’t attend the American Cinema Editors (ACE) 25th annual panel of Academy Award-nominated film editors held at the Regal LA Live Auditorium on Saturday (3/1) in Los Angeles. While the eventual Oscar winner in the editing category was missed by those who turned out for the ACE “Invisible Art, Visible Artists” session, three of Baker’s fellow nominees were on hand--Dávid Jancsó, HSE for The Brutalist; Nick Emerson for Conclave; and Myron Kerstein, ACE for Wicked. Additionally, Juliette Welfling, who couldn’t appear in person due to the Cesar Awards, was present via an earlier recorded video interview to discuss her work on Emilia Pérez. The interview was conducted by ACE president and editor Sabrina Plisco, ACE who also moderated the live panel discussion. Kerstein said that he was the beneficiary of brilliant and generous collaborators, citing, among others, director Jon M. Chu, cinematographer Alice Brooks, and visual effects supervisor Pablo Helman. The editor added it always helps to have stellar acting performances, noting that hearing Cynthia Erivo, for example, sing live was a revelation. Kerstein recalled meeting Chu some eight years ago on a “blind Skype date” and it was an instant “bromance”--which began on Crazy Rich Asians, and then continued on such projects as the streaming series Home Before Dark and the feature In The Heights. Kerstein observed that Chu is expert in providing collaborators with... Read More