Director Joseph Kahn is linking with bicoastal HSI Productions for commercials and music videos. Plans call for his Los Angeles roost, SuperMega, to become a satellite of HSI. Kahn and SuperMega were most recently affiliated with Palomar Pictures, Los Angeles…..Word is that director Neil Tardio, Jr., is headed for bicoastal Go Film….At press time, rumors were swirling that a deal is brewing between New York shops PostWorks and the Tapehouse family of companies. Stay tuned….Mark Sitley has been promoted to director of production, North America, at Fallon, which has offices in Minneapolis and New York….Henninger Capitol, a post facility based in Washington, D.C., has been shuttered by Henninger Media Services, Arlington, Va. Henninger still maintains its other divisions which includes Henninger Richmond; Henninger Arlington; Henninger Charlottesville; and Commonwealth Film Labs, Richmond….Machete Edit & Design, Chicago, has added creative editor Mark Jepsen to its staff….Executive producer Rob Appelblatt and visual effects designer Tim Crean, formerly of New York effects house Guava, have launched visual effects/design shop Suspect, New York..… Creative director/editor Christopher Willoughby and executive producer Leah Welsh have launched creative editorial/design company Space Division, with offices in Santa Ana and Santa Monica. Willoughby and Welsh come over from ARTiFACT, which closed its creative editorial/design business at the end of ’02….Gina Pagano has joined Bikini Edit, New York, as executive producer. She most recently served in the same role at Mint, Santa Monica….Composer David Della Santa has joined New York music shop tonefarmer….An earlier Street Talk item linked editors Brad Briggs and Fernando Villena with Easyway Editorial, Dallas. Briggs is repped in the Texas market by Easyway, but continues to be handled in all other territories by Brass Knuckles Editorial, Venice, Calif. Brass Knuckles represents Villena worldwide….
London Critics Name “The Brutalist” The Film of the Year
The Brutalist, Brady Corbet’s immigrant saga, won the Film of the Year prize at the 45th London Critics’ Circle Film Awards.
While The Brutalist garnered just one award, it was the marquee honor. Meanwhile Nickel Boys, Conclave and A Real Pain all receivd multiple awards, and Zoe Saldaña was honored twice.
Edward Berger’s Vatican thriller Conclave took two awards for British/Irish Film of the Year and Actor of the Year for Ralph Fiennes, while RaMell Ross’s radical Colson Whitehead adaptation Nickel Boys was recognized with Director of the Year and the Technical Achievement Award for Jomo Fray’s first-person cinematography. Jesse Eisenberg’s dark comedy A Real Pain was the night’s other multiple prizewinner, landing Screenwriter of the Year for the actor-filmmaker, and Supporting Actor of the Year for co-star Kieran Culkin.
Payal Kapadia’s Mumbai-set drama All We Imagine as Light was named Foreign Language Film of the Year, while the Palestinian-Israeli collective behind No Other Land took Documentary of the Year.
Alongside Conclave, British productions awarded by the Circle in the top categories included Mike Leigh’s intimate character study Hard Truths, which took Actress of the Year for Marianne Jean-Baptiste, while Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl was named Animated Feature of the Year. In the British/Irish-specific categories, Saoirse Ronan won British/Irish Performer of the Year for her performances in The Outrun and Blitz, 14-year-old Nykiya Adams won Young British/Irish Performer of the Year for her screen debut in Andrea Arnold’s Bird, and Rich Peppiatt won the... Read More