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    Street Talk for April 22, 2016

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    The directing duo Big Red Button consisting of Pier van Tijn (l) and Johnny Burns
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    Big Red Button, the directorial duo consisting of Johnny Burns and Pier van Tijn, has joined Biscuit Filmworks UK for commercial representation. Big Red Button is known throughout the UK for its award-winning commercial campaigns and short films that feature their esoteric comedic style. Big Red Button was formed shortly after Burns and van Tijn graduated from film school, when the pair met on the set of a feature film in Oxford and quickly bonded over a shared sense of humor. After a successful run creating viral short films, animations, and music videos, the duo gained acclaim within the commercial world in 2009 with their British Arrow Award win for an anti-drug campaign for FRANK. The humorous campaign featured Pablo the Drug Mule Dog and presented the dangers of cocaine through the eyes of an eviscerated canine, establishing Big Red Button’s talent for pushing the envelope with uncensored comedy. They quickly followed up with prominent spots for Go Compare (starring Prof. Stephen Hawking), Virgin Media, Carlsberg, and the award-winning “Chav Tranquiliser” for Paddy Power….

    Patrick Biesemans, an independent filmmaker who is represented for commercial productions by Los Angeles-based StunSpots, has been awarded the top prize of the Musicbed Film Initiative for his proposed film project Embers & Dust. The award totals $40k in cash and credits for music licensing, sound design and gear. Based in Fort Worth, Texas, Musicbed licenses music for film and television. Embers & Dust focuses on the perspective of a young farm boy and his family, and how the night of Orson Welles’ dramatic broadcast of War of The Worlds unfolded for them. It highlights the power and influence of mass media, and how this moment in broadcast history shaped how we ingest information to this day. The Musicbed Film Initiative competition launched on March 15, 2016 and drew nearly 7,500 submissions that were narrowed down to a pool of 78 finalists. After more than 200 hours of reviewing, Musicbed arrived at a final three – the top prize and two runner-up selections that will receive a $5,000 gear package. Runners-up are Skip It submitted by Little Wonderful (Jonathan Cohen and Lorne Hilts) and Skinny submitted by Los Angeles filmmaker Luke Randall…..

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    Raoul Peck Resurrects A Once-Forgotten Anti-Apartheid Photographer In “Ernest Cole: Lost and Found”

    Friday, November 22, 2024

    When the photographer Ernest Cole died in 1990 at the age of 49 from pancreatic cancer at a Manhattan hospital, his death was little noted.

    Cole, one of the most important chroniclers of apartheid-era South Africa, was by then mostly forgotten and penniless. Banned by his native country after the publication of his pioneering photography book "House of Bondage," Cole had emigrated in 1966 to the United States. But his life in exile gradually disintegrated into intermittent homelessness. A six-paragraph obituary in The New York Times ran alongside a list of death notices.

    But Cole receives a vibrant and stirring resurrection in Raoul Peck's new film "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found," narrated in Cole's own words and voiced by LaKeith Stanfield. The film, which opens in theaters Friday, is laced throughout with Cole's photographs, many of them not before seen publicly.

    As he did in his Oscar-nominated James Baldwin documentary "I Am Not Your Negro," the Haitian-born Peck shares screenwriting credit with his subject. "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found" is drawn from Cole's own writings. In words and images, Peck brings the tragic story of Cole to vivid life, reopening the lens through which Cole so perceptively saw injustice and humanity.

    "Film is a political tool for me," Peck said in a recent interview over lunch in Manhattan. "My job is to go to the widest audience possible and try to give them something to help them understand where they are, what they are doing, what role they are playing. It's about my fight today. I don't care about the past."

    "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found" is a movie layered with meaning that goes beyond Cole's work. It asks questions not just about the societies Cole documented but of how he was treated as an artist,... Read More

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