Toronto-based production company Someplace Nice has added directors Trevor Cornish and Finn O’Hara to its roster for Canadian representation. Cornish was previously handled in Canada by Sequoia. He is repped in the U.S. by Wild Plum. O’Hara formerly was with Suneeva for Canadian business. He is repped globally (excluding Canada) by Institute Creatives. Cornish’s portfolio includes campaigns for clients including Burger King, Purolator, Staples, McDonald’s, Boston Pizza, Van Houtte and Shock Top. In addition to his commercial film work, he has also directed two video games for EA Sports, as well as TV episodes for the National Geographic UK/Discovery Channel series Mayday, and the HBO/Cinemax series Lingerie. O’Hara’s work spans such clients as Kellogg’s, Budweiser, Rogers, Best Made Company and Bell. He has shot advertising and editorial for British Airways, Coca-Cola, Nike, The New York Times Magazine, Adidas, and Esquire, among others….
Steven Soderbergh Has A Multi-Faceted “Presence” In His Latest Film
Steven Soderbergh isn't just the director and cinematographer of his latest film. He's also, in a way, its central character.
"Presence" is filmed entirely from the POV of a ghost inside a home a family has just moved into. Soderbergh, who serves as his own cinematographer under the pseudonym Peter Andrews (his father's name), essentially performs as the presence, a floating point-of-view that watches as the violence that killed the mysterious ghost threatens to be repeated.
For even the prolific Soderbergh, the film, which opens Friday in theaters, was a unique challenge. He shot "Presence" with a small digital camera while wearing slippers to soften his steps.
The 62-year-old filmmaker recently met a reporter in a midtown Manhattan hotel in between finishing post-production on his other upcoming movie ("Black Bag," a thriller Focus Features will release March 14) and beginning production in a few weeks on his next project, a romantic comedy that he says "feels like a George Cukor movie."
Soderbergh, whose films include "Out of Sight," the "Ocean's 11" movies, "Magic Mike" and "Erin Brockovich," tends to do a lot in small windows of time. "Presence" took 11 days to film.
That dexterous proficiency has made the ever-experimenting Soderbergh one of Hollywood's most widely respected evaluators of the movie business. In a wide-ranging conversation, he discussed why he thinks streaming is the most destructive force the movies have ever faced and why he's "the cockroach of this industry."
Q: You use pseudonyms for yourself as a cinematographer and editor. Were you tempted to credit yourself as an actor for "Presence"?
SODERBERGH: No, but what I did is subtle. For the first and... Read More