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    Street Talk for July 9, 2021

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    Bine Bach Damsgaard
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    Danish director Bine Bach Damsgaard has joined the roster of Scandinavian production house Bacon. After working as a creative with Wieden+Kennedy New York, she stepped out as a director on her own two years ago with an award-winning film for Danish department store Magasin. Since then, she has done video content for Instagram phenom Leandra Medine Cohen and designer Gelareh Mizrahi, and her latest film for feminine care innovators Billie was recently shortlisted for a Young Director Award…. 

    Buddy Guy: The Blues Chase the Blues Away, a production of RCA Records and Scheme Engine in association with American Masters Pictures, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and is scheduled to air on PBS on July 27. The documentary feature chronicles the life of legendary blues musician George “Buddy” Guy. Charles Todd, creative director of Scheme Engine, is one of the directors of the film, along with Devin Amar and Matt Mitchener. John Beug and Sheira Rees-Davies are the producers. Michael Kantor, Camille Yorrick, Devin Amar and Sheira Rees-Davies are executive producers. After spending his early years as a sharecropper in Lettsworth, Louisiana, Guy became one of the most influential guitarists of all time. A pioneer of Chicago’s fabled West Side sound, he is a living link to the city’s halcyon days of electric blues. Over the course of his career, Guy has garnered eight Grammy Awards and was honored with induction into The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Todd explores storytelling through experimental mixed-media, cinematic narrative, and live concert direction for clients and artists, such as Nike, the NBA, Nikon, HBO, Rihanna, Jay-Z, Beyoncé, and Travis Scott. His original shorts for Apple Music have evolved the music documentary genre into innovative films for artists like Lil Baby, The 1975, H.E.R. Marc Anthony, and Christine and the Queens. Scheme Engine is a BIPOC-owned creative studio and production/postproduction company….

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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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