Marie-Josรฉe Huot has been hired as a producer in the advertising department of Rodeo FX, which maintains studios in Montreal, Los Angeles, Quebec City and Munich. Bringing more than 25 years of experience in high-end postproduction, Huot has worked with clients including Loto-Quebec, IGA, Videotron, St-Hubert, SAAQ, Subway, Toyota, Hyundai, Volkswagen, Bell and Air Canada. Her reputation as a producer and her strong sense of client services were honed during her career in advertising visual effects at Buzz, Mokko Studio, Technicolor and Shed as well as in postproduction, notably at Bureau de Post, Post Moderne and Difuze. She has collaborated with agencies like Sid Lee, Cossette, Bos, BleuBlancRouge, LG2, Y&R and production houses including Soma Pub, Les Enfants, 4Zero1, Cinรฉlande and TVA. Huot joins Rodeo FX at a time of strategic growth for the company as a whole and specifically for its advertising department, which recently appointed รric Bolduc as executive producer and head of advertising. Recent Rodeo FX Advertising projects include Travis Scott’s latest music clip, Via Rail’s 40th anniversary fully CG spot, as well as Korean Air and Van Houtte’s latest campaigns. Rodeo FX delivers award-winning visual effects for feature films including Academy Award-winner Blade Runner 2049, IT, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, The Fate of the Furious, Kong: Skull Island, Arrival, and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. Rodeo FX won a 2018 VES Award for its work on Game of Thrones. Emmy honors include three awards for Game of Thrones (2014, 2015, 2016). More recently, Rodeo FX has won an Animago Award in Munich for Best Visual Effects for Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, as well as a Hollywood Professional Association Award for Black Sails….
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