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    Street Talk for June, 5, 2015

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    Entertainment and media company Alldayeveryday (Allday) has signed Ghost+Cow, the Brooklyn-based directing duo comprised of Brandon LeGanke and John Carlucci. Ghost+Cow specializes in music videos, films, commercials, and branded content, with award-winning work that has screened at Slamdance, SXSW, Telluride, Milano and Cannes Lions. Their film Drone Boning, which began as a commentary on voyeurism and privacy invasion in the 21st century, quickly became a viral sensation that earned millions of media impressions and coverage across web, broadcast news and late night entertainment shows. Ghost+Cow join an Alldayeveryday directorial roster that includes Matt Baron, Kenzo Digital, Cheryl Dunn, Colin Devin Moore, Phil Pinto, Kai Regan, Danny Sangra, Jake Sumner, Josh Taft, Lieven Van Baelen and We Are The Rhoads….

    New York/San Francisco-based content creation/production company Bodega has signed director Mark Rosenberg for his first commercial representation. With a diverse background as a director, cinematographer, writer, producer and editor, Rosenberg is no stranger to wearing multiple hats on a project. He boasts two decades of experience in production across commercials, music videos, promos, independent films and documentaries and thrives off creative diversity. His recent work includes two music videos for the Tony-nominated musical On The Town as well as a series of branded documentary shorts for Pivot TV and New Amsterdam Vodka.

    Spectrum, based in Tampa, has expanded with the opening of an office in Los Angeles. The expansion is part of a strategic initiative to invest and grow the company’s development efforts nationwide. In that vein, Spectrum, headed by CEO/EP Guy Nickerson, has named Daysun Perkins, former development executive at 44 Blue Productions, as sr. VP of programming and development, West Coast. In his new role, Daysun will lead development of new top-tier concepts for television, digital series and branded content. Prior to 44 Blue, Daysun was in development at such companies as Telepictures, CBS TVD, GSN and Eyworks. At 44 Blue, Daysun oversaw an expansive slate of development projects and series concepts for major broadcast and cable networks and syndication companies, and the company launched the hit series Wahlburgers, Donnie Loves Jenny, and Nightwatch. Daysun was also involved in the development of the upcoming BET/Centric series, According to Alex, and an HBO documentary produced in partnership with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson….

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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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