Director John Grammatico has joined Los Angeles-based CoMPANY Films. He comes to the directing chair after leaving his creative director position at Doner, where he worked for such clients as Cox Communications, Del Taco and HGTV. At press time, Grammatico was helming his first project at CoMPANY: a two-spot package for M&M's out of BBDO New York….Cathleen Kisich has joined Caviar Los Angeles as a producer. She comes over from Goodby, Silverstein and Partners, San Francisco, where she served as a producer, turning out work for clients such as Sprint, Hewlett-Packard, Nintendo, Netflix and Comcast. Born and raised in San Francisco, Cathleen started her career at Citron Haligman Bedecarrรฉ/AKQA. From there she worked at GARTNER in Santa Monica, then back up to San Francisco to work at Publicis & Hal Riney. At Riney, she was an integrated producer before landing at Goodby, Silverstein and Partners in June 2007….British editor Adam Rudd moves stateside this month to join Final Cut LA. He has spent the last four years editing out of Final Cut's London headquarters. Recent award wins for projects he worked on include the Silver Cannes Lion for the British Heart Foundation, and 14 Promax/BDA Awards for SyFy, both for Director Brett Foraker. Other notable 2010 work includes the 3D Gucci “Guilty” campaign, the UK launch of “The Event,” and Audi's “Future”…
Writers of “Conclave,” “Say Nothing” Win Scripter Awards
The authors and screenwriters behind the film โConclaveโ and the series โSay Nothingโ won the 37th-annual USC Libraries Scripter Awards during a black-tie ceremony at USCโs Town and Gown ballroom on Saturday evening (2/22).
The Scripter Awards recognize the yearโs most accomplished adaptations of the written word for the screen, including both feature-length films and episodic series.
Novelist Robert Harris and screenwriter Peter Straughan took home the award for โConclave.โ
In accepting the award, Straughan said, โAdaptation is a really strange process, youโre very much the servant of two masters. In a way itโs an act of betrayal of one master for the other.โ He joked that โYou start off with a book that you love, you read it again and again, and then you end up throwing it over your shoulder,โ crediting author Robert Harris for being โso kind, so generous, so open throughout.โ
In the episodic series category, Joshua Zetumer and Patrick Radden Keefe won for the episode โThe People in the Dirtโ from the limited series โSay Nothing,โ which Zetumer adapted from Keefeโs nonfiction book about the Troubles in Ireland.
Zetumer referenced this yearโs extraordinary group of Scripter finalists, saying โprojects like these reminded me of why I wanted to become a writer when I was sitting in USCโs Leavey Library dreaming of becoming a screenwriter. If you fell in love with movies, or fell in love with TV, chances are you fell in love with something dangerous.โ
Special guest for the evening, actress and producer Jennifer Beals, shared her thoughts on the impact of libraries. โIf ever you are at a loss wondering if there is good in the world,โ she said, โyou have only to go to a... Read More