Cutting Room, NY has added veteran agency producer Lisa Petroni as managing director, where she will oversee all things editorial including business development and client relations. Petroni comes to Cutting Room from BBDO where she moved up from assistant producer to VP/executive producer in her 11-and-half years at the agency…Chad Walker has joined Victors & Spoils, Boulder, Colo., as a creative director, He comes over from Arnold N.Y., where he served in the same capacity. Previously, Walker was a creative director at mcgarrybowen….Director/DP Patrick Donnelly has launched Cinema Five Films, a New York-based production company/post house hybrid which will also feature the talents of director Tim Pumphrey and editor Mark Breese. Donnelly, Pumphrey and Breese all have roots in MTV's On-Air Promo department. Donnelly got his start in commercial production as a p.a. for Rick Levine Productions; and worked as a camera operator and DP at Peter Corbett & Company. Cinema Five is already working on a series of integrated marketing campaigns for MTV and Sobe, Chevy and Neutrogena….
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