Fern, an animation and design studio in Atlanta under the aegis of founder/director James Mabery, has taken on U.S. representation for Montreal-based visual artist Elizabeth Laferriรจre. She will serve as a director and art director available to Fern’s clients. Laferriรจre, whose decade of experience includes working with clients in music, television, publishing and the arts, is known for creating surreal images through collage. Laferriรจre’s work has been featured in Fubiz, Trendland and a variety of other online and print publications. She previously taught motion design at Universitรฉ du Quรฉbec ร Montrรฉal and has presented on a variety of topics at conferences such as Montrรฉal in Motion, CรGEP Marie-Victorin, the Association of Registered Graphic Designers and Collรจge Champlain of Vermont. Laferriรจre earned her diploma of college studies in graphic arts from Collรจge Ahuntsic and her bachelor’s degree in graphic design from the Universitรฉ du Quรฉbec ร Montrรฉal. While at university, she spent a semester studying abroad at ESAG Penninghen in Paris. “Adding Elizabeth to our skilled studio will help diversify and broaden our portfolio from both a style and storytelling approach,” said Mabery. “She possesses the ability to portray empathy and emotionality through design–the backbone of Fern–which is why this is a natural collaboration”….
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