Director Shaun Higton has joined the roster of mixed-media production company Passion Paris. The young filmmaker recently scored a viral hit with his short film What’s on your mind? The film is a stark portrayal of social media use that asks whether we, or our virtual friends, are actually being honest online. It racked up over 8 million YouTube views in just a few weeks. Previously Higton has helmed commercials for brands including Pepsi, Heinz, Skandiabanken and Intersport….Therapy Studios has added sr. colorist Robert Curreri. His spot credits span such brands as Honda, Ford, VW, DirecTV, Budweiser and Target. He has also color graded music videos for, among other artists, Lady Gaga, Beyonce, Lil Wayne and Arcade Fire. Curreri began his career in Manhattan as a music video colorist. After working as a DP and then music video director, Curreri returned to color grading upon relocating to L.A. in 2003 to join The Syndicate. In 2008, Curreri made a move over to R!OT, and then to Company 3 Santa Monica, before eventually going independent….Jie Chen and Shelley Russell have joined Click 3X as sr. digital producers. Previously, Chen was a digital producer at Firstborn Multimedia, working on projects such as developing iOS and Android apps for Kraft Foods and multi-language responsive site design and development for Walt Disney Parks and Resorts. She has also held positions at Design Royale, WhybinTBWA and TBWATequila. Prior to coming to Click 3X, Russell worked as a digital producer at Tiffany & Co….Gannon Mooney has come aboard global digital agency Essence. He will be responsible for elevating and growing the creative offering of Essence’s North American offices in NY, San Francisco and Seattle on behalf of brands such as Method Home, eBay and Google. Mooney will join the Seattle office and report to global CEO Christian Juhl. Mooney was most recently a creative director at Seattle Wunderman Network…..
Martin Scorsese On “The Saints,” Faith In Filmmaking and His Next Movie
When Martin Scorsese was a child growing up in New York's Little Italy, he would gaze up at the figures he saw around St. Patrick's Old Cathedral. "Who are these people? What is a saint?" Scorsese recalls. "The minute I walk out the door of the cathedral and I don't see any saints. I saw people trying to behave well within a world that was very primal and oppressed by organized crime. As a child, you wonder about the saints: Are they human?" For decades, Scorsese has pondered a project dedicated to the saints. Now, he's finally realized it in "Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints," an eight-part docudrama series debuting Sunday on Fox Nation, the streaming service from Fox News Media. The one-hour episodes, written by Kent Jones and directed by Elizabeth Chomko, each chronicle a saint: Joan of Arc, Francis of Assisi, John the Baptist, Thomas Becket, Mary Magdalene, Moses the Black, Sebastian and Maximillian Kolbe. Joan of Arc kicks off the series on Sunday, with three weekly installments to follow; the last four will stream closer to Easter next year. In naturalistic reenactments followed by brief Scorsese-led discussions with experts, "The Saints" emphasizes that, yes, the saints were very human. They were flawed, imperfect people, which, to Scorsese, only heightens their great sacrifices and gestures of compassion. The Polish priest Kolbe, for example, helped spread antisemitism before, during WWII, sheltering Jews and, ultimately, volunteering to die in the place of a man who had been condemned at Auschwitz. Scorsese, who turns 82 on Sunday, recently met for an interview not long after returning from a trip to his grandfather's hometown in Sicily. He was made an honorary citizen and the experience was still lingering in his mind. Remarks have... Read More