B-Reel Films has signed Los Angeles-based director Will Mayer. The 21-year-old director just finished his first B-Reel Films project for Airbnb/PayPal out of CP+B. He recently completed a six-month long film campaign helping reinvent the image of the U.S. Department of Education, and is currently working on a music video for Steve Angelo. Mayer has been a filmmaker for brands since he was 14, filming snowboard and skateboard videos for Vans. By the age of 16 he was their main filmmaker for the East Coast, delving into documentary and culture content. He later moved to California, establishing himself as a director….Whitehouse Post New York has added commercial editor Mark Paiva to its roster. He has worked with brands including Nike (W+K), Adidas (TBWA Berlin), Hyundai (Innocean), Kia (David & Goliath), and McDonald’s (Cossette). A Toronto native, Paiva has more than a decade of editing experience. In 2009 he helped found Posterboy Edit, which merged with Bijou Editorial in 2014 to help form Saints Editorial. Paiva’s work has been honored at such shows as Cannes, D&AD, AICE and One Show….
Lensing and Designing Brady Corbet’s “The Brutalist”
Cinematographer Lol Crawley, BSC and production designer Judy Becker collaborated for the first time on The Brutalist (A24) and emerged as Oscar nominees in their respectiveย disciplines. Their work on the film has also earned major recognition elsewhere on the industry awards circuit. Just this week, Crawley won the British Society of Cinematographersโ Feature Film Award. He also is currently a nominee for both an ASC Award and a BAFTA Film Award. And Becker received nominations for a BAFTA Film Award and an Art Directors Guild (ADG) Excellence in Production Design Award. Crawley and Becker, though, traversed distinctly different paths to The Brutalist, being on opposite ends of the collaborative continuum with director and co-writer Brady Corbet going into the film. Crawley had already shot two features for Corbet prior to The Brutalist--The Childhood of a Leader (2015) and Vox Lux (2018). In sharp contrast, The Brutalist marked Beckerโs first time working with Corbet. Becker recalled seeing The Childhood of a Leader and immediately wanting to design for Corbet. Describing herself as โstunnedโ by the film, she related that it reflected Corbetโs talent as a filmmaker, his ability to work within a budget on a period movie and still deliver an end product that looked fantastic while brilliantly telling a story. Becker noted that a big budget period film replete with tons of set dressing, over-dressed locations and the like misses the mark for her. She asked, โWhy waste that money?โ But when Becker sees a period movie with a pared down budget that looks so good, โIโm really blown away.โ Based on The Childhood of a Leader, Becker told her agent that sheโd love to... Read More