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    Street Talk for July 3, 2015

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    London-based Colonel Blimp has signed filmmaker Billy Lumby for commercials and music videos. His short film God View was an experimental drama shot entirely from above using a specially designed bodyrig. After a run of top festivals and awards (including Clermont-Ferrand, Seoul, Encounters, St. Petersburg), it was bought by Canal+ and broadcast on TV in France, Spain, Switzerland and across Africa. Lumby’s latest film SAMUEL-613 was commissioned by Dazed magazine and won this year’s Pears Short Film prize. Produced in association with UK Jewish Film, it explores London’s Hasidic community, gaining unprecedented access for a drama, including non-professional actors and Yiddish dialogue….

    Anheuser-Busch InBev has entered into a strategic partnership with Wieden+Kennedy, which will take the creative lead on campaigns for the global brand Corona and for Bud Light. W+K New York will handle Bud Light, previously a BBDO account. W+K Amsterdam will lead global business for Corona….

    Dawn Tenny has been promoted to president and CFO of Schneider Optics, and Stuart Singer to sr. VP and CTO of the company. Tenny is a veteran of 22 years at Schneider Optics and has been CFO for the past decade. In her new position as president and CFO, she will oversee all company operations in partnership with CEO Dwight Lindsey. Meanwhile in his new position, Singer, a 20=plus year veteran of the company, will manage Schneider’s team regarding technical developments and customer requirements, as well as all aspects of the Industrial Optics portion of the Schneider business in the United States. A renowned industrial optics expert, Singer holds numerous optical distinctions. Singer was an integral part of the development of Schneider’s industry-leading Motion Picture Filter products, and is a sr. member of the Society of Optics and Photonics Engineering worldwide (SPIE). He lectures around the country on advanced optics, robotic and machine vision, as well as authoring numerous esteemed technical papers….
     

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    Raoul Peck Resurrects A Once-Forgotten Anti-Apartheid Photographer In “Ernest Cole: Lost and Found”

    Friday, November 22, 2024

    When the photographer Ernest Cole died in 1990 at the age of 49 from pancreatic cancer at a Manhattan hospital, his death was little noted.

    Cole, one of the most important chroniclers of apartheid-era South Africa, was by then mostly forgotten and penniless. Banned by his native country after the publication of his pioneering photography book "House of Bondage," Cole had emigrated in 1966 to the United States. But his life in exile gradually disintegrated into intermittent homelessness. A six-paragraph obituary in The New York Times ran alongside a list of death notices.

    But Cole receives a vibrant and stirring resurrection in Raoul Peck's new film "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found," narrated in Cole's own words and voiced by LaKeith Stanfield. The film, which opens in theaters Friday, is laced throughout with Cole's photographs, many of them not before seen publicly.

    As he did in his Oscar-nominated James Baldwin documentary "I Am Not Your Negro," the Haitian-born Peck shares screenwriting credit with his subject. "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found" is drawn from Cole's own writings. In words and images, Peck brings the tragic story of Cole to vivid life, reopening the lens through which Cole so perceptively saw injustice and humanity.

    "Film is a political tool for me," Peck said in a recent interview over lunch in Manhattan. "My job is to go to the widest audience possible and try to give them something to help them understand where they are, what they are doing, what role they are playing. It's about my fight today. I don't care about the past."

    "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found" is a movie layered with meaning that goes beyond Cole's work. It asks questions not just about the societies Cole documented but of how he was treated as an artist,... Read More

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