Director and Emmy Award-winner Rob Feng has joined Paydirt for commercial representation in the U.S., U.K. and Japan. His recent directorial credits include spots for Prius, One A Day with BBDO, Clorox with DDB San Francisco, and Bright House Networks. Over the years he has directed campaigns for American Express, Apple, Nike, Microsoft, Budweiser, Snapple, Vodafone, DirecTV and Zappos. Feng, who won a 2011 Emmy for his work on the Game of Thrones title sequence, also worked with Oscar-winning documentarian Errol Morris to create the signature story graphics for his latest feature documentary Tabloid. For his work on the film, Feng received Cinema Eye Honors for an Outstanding Debut in a Feature Film, awarded annually for exemplary craft in innovation and nonfiction film. He also won a 2005 MTV Video Music Award for Best Visual Effects for Muse’s “Hysteria.” Feng began his film career on set in the motion control/ miniatures unit on feature films such as The Fifth Element, Titanic and X-Men. He is a graduate of the University of Southern California Cinematic Arts program….San Francisco-based agency Eleven has hired creative director Jack Harding, who comes over from BBDO, sr. copywriter Ray Connolly, previously with Cutwater and Deutsch, copywriter Jimmy Carson, formerly of TBWAMedia Arts Lab, sr. integrated art director Sara Worthington, an ex-Goodby, Silverstein & Partners’ sr. art director, sr. designer Matthew Wakeman, who ran his own design consultancy Matthew Wakeman Design, consumer application architect Michael Neuman who had served as a human factors engineer at Apple, and jr. art director Amanda Day who was a student at the Academy of Art University, San Francisco….
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