Great Guns has added director Robin Sheppard to its roster for global representation. After studying film and video to postgraduate level–and winning the Special Jury Award for her grad film The Thin Red Line at the 1993 Cork Film Festival–Sheppard launched straight into the industry to begin directing. Since then, she has been nominated for two BAFTAs–for a Wing and a Prayer and Playing the Field–and won a Grierson Award for Cherished in 2005. She was on the board of Directors UK for three years and has campaigned to champion female directors. Sheppard’s career has seen her direct some of Britain’s most iconic television series, including The Bill, New Tricks, and Benidorm. She has also directed episodes of Hulu’s original period drama Harlots, and Delicious, a culinary drama starring Ian Glen, Dawn French, and Emilia Fox. Most recently, Sheppard directed all episodes of Dun Breedin, a nine-part YouTube comedy-drama set in Brighton. Filmed and produced entirely in lockdown, the show explores the lives of a group of women who have bonded over difficult life experiences. Starring British TV notables including Denise Welch, Tamzin Outhwaite, and Tracy-Ann Oberman, the series followed all lockdown regulations, with the stars filming themselves in their homes while Sheppard directed remotely…..
Jules Feiffer, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Cartoonist and Writer, Dies At 95
Jules Feiffer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and writer whose prolific output ranged from a long-running comic strip to plays, screenplays and children's books, died Friday. He was 95 and, true to his seemingly tireless form, published his last book just four months ago.
Feiffer's wife, writer JZ Holden, said Tuesday that he died of congestive heart failure at their home in Richfield Springs, New York, and was surrounded by friends, the couple's two cats and his recent artwork.
Holden said her husband had been ill for a couple of years, "but he was sharp and strong up until the very end. And funny."
Artistically limber, Feiffer hopscotched among numerous forms of expression, chronicling the curiosity of childhood, urban angst and other societal currents. To each he brought a sharp wit and acute observations of the personal and political relations that defined his readers' lives.
As Feiffer explained to the Chicago Tribune in 2002, his work dealt with "communication and the breakdown thereof, between men and women, parents and children, a government and its citizens, and the individual not dealing so well with authority."
Feiffer won the United States' most prominent awards in journalism and filmmaking, taking home a 1986 Pulitzer Prize for his cartoons and "Munro," an animated short film he wrote, won a 1961 Academy Award. The Library of Congress held a retrospective of his work in 1996.
"My goal is to make people think, to make them feel and, along the way, to make them smile if not laugh," Feiffer told the South Florida Sun Sentinel in 1998. "Humor seems to me one of the best ways of espousing ideas. It gets people to listen with their guard down."
Feiffer was born on Jan. 26, 1929, in the Bronx. From... Read More