Director Kurt Mattila has joined Supply&Demand for commercial representation. The recipient of a Student Academy Award, Mattila has gone on to turn out campaigns for clients including BMW, Ford and Red Bull. Longer format work includes the Summit Entertainment feature Lies and Alibis as well as the documentary Art in Video Games for the Museum of Contemporary Art. Mattila entered the industry as founding member/partner of Imaginary Forces where work on assorted feature film sequences included the dream sequences for Minority Report, a hypnotic blur of expressionistic moments that successfully foreshadow the genesis of future crimes. Mattila is currently recreating the same sequences for the Minority Report pilot currently being made for Fox and DreamWorks. Design and editing duties led to Mattila forming Prologue Pictures with Alexander Dervin, producing live-action narrative, documentary and spot work. Most recently, Mattila completed a live-action teaser to launch Syfy’s new series Ascension, designing and developing the creative look for the show….
The One Club has announced that the One Show entry system is now open, months ahead of last year’s submission period. The non-profit has introduced a quarterly entry system for The One Show, as well as a set of public relations categories. The quarterly system divides the entry periods into four deadlines, beginning in July and ending with the usual final deadline at the end of January. The first quarter deadline is August 14; the second is September 30; the third is November 30; and the fourth, the last one before the show, is January 29. Two shortlists will be announced: the first in early October and the second in early April. The quarterly entry system benefits the creatives entering, the judges reviewing and the quality of the work at The One Show, according to Kevin Swanepoel, CEO of The One Club who noted that agencies are able to submit their work when it’s fresh and the media files required to submit an entry are readily available. Meanwhile, judges will have the opportunity to review work when it’s topical and will have less pressure to review work from the entire year all at once. The One Club also introduced a group of public relations categories, including Consumer, CSR, Non-Profit, Innovation and Craft….
SCHROM x Yacht Club and Be Electric Studios Launch Electric XR for Virtual Production
SCHROM x Yacht Club, a full-service live-action, tabletop, and postproduction company, has teamed with Be Electric Studios, a soundstage, equipment rental, and virtual production company, to launch Electric XR, a virtual production collective.
Industry veteran Thomas Rossano will lead the new venture, which provides advanced virtual production solutions across multiple facilities. He brings over 25 years of experience in live-action, tabletop, postproduction and talent curation to enhance Electric XR’s offerings as a resource for brands and agencies, as well as other production companies in need of virtual production solutions. Additionally Rossano continues to serve as EP at XR New York (XR-NY), a role he’s held since December 2022. SCHROM x Yacht Club originally established XR-NY to help provide XR services for third-party rentals. While XR-NY will continue to function independently for SCHROM X Yacht Club, it now operates under the Electric XR umbrella.
Rossano’s expertise spans producing live-action commercials, branded content, interactive and experiential content. In addition to leading Electric XR, he holds responsibilities at SCHROM x Yacht Club which include driving business development, collaborating with sales reps and expanding the company’s creative talent network. Rossano’s career includes serving as an exec producer at Hungry Man for about 11 years, right from that company’s inception. He then went on to become a partner at Station Film where he also had a lengthy tenure. Later he was a partner at PRISM. Then after the pandemic hit, he became a freelance EP for nearly two years, looking into opportunities in virtual production, which led him to XR NY and now Electric XR. Over the years, he has produced high-profile... Read More