Global commercial production company Picture Farm has extended its reach to Germany, opening an office in Berlin under the aegis of executive producer Andreas Von Lintel. The office will serve as an extension of Picture Farm’s existing European presence, providing its breadth of production services to local clients in the Berlin advertising and creative media market. Von Lintel brings over three decades of experience in production across print, film and digital to this new role, having collaborated with such clients as Apple, BMW, Cartier and Vogue. Working closely with James Stewart, partner and managing director of Picture Farm Europe, Von Lintel will combine his artist and production backgrounds to provide service and creative support to German advertisers throughout Europe. Von Lintel is an accomplished photographer, bringing a global perspective to his portfolio ranging from commissioned work to gallery and museum exhibitions. He launched his prolific career capturing the fall of the Berlin Wall, earning the attention of AFP with his powerful images which quickly led to worldwide exposure and interest. His portfolio rapidly expanded to include an international cross-section of commissioned and original work, producing all of his own projects. Picture Farm also maintains offices in London, New York, Los Angeles, Barcelona and Madrid…….
Writers of “Conclave,” “Say Nothing” Win Scripter Awards
The authors and screenwriters behind the film โConclaveโ and the series โSay Nothingโ won the 37th-annual USC Libraries Scripter Awards during a black-tie ceremony at USCโs Town and Gown ballroom on Saturday evening (2/22).
The Scripter Awards recognize the yearโs most accomplished adaptations of the written word for the screen, including both feature-length films and episodic series.
Novelist Robert Harris and screenwriter Peter Straughan took home the award for โConclave.โ
In accepting the award, Straughan said, โAdaptation is a really strange process, youโre very much the servant of two masters. In a way itโs an act of betrayal of one master for the other.โ He joked that โYou start off with a book that you love, you read it again and again, and then you end up throwing it over your shoulder,โ crediting author Robert Harris for being โso kind, so generous, so open throughout.โ
In the episodic series category, Joshua Zetumer and Patrick Radden Keefe won for the episode โThe People in the Dirtโ from the limited series โSay Nothing,โ which Zetumer adapted from Keefeโs nonfiction book about the Troubles in Ireland.
Zetumer referenced this yearโs extraordinary group of Scripter finalists, saying โprojects like these reminded me of why I wanted to become a writer when I was sitting in USCโs Leavey Library dreaming of becoming a screenwriter. If you fell in love with movies, or fell in love with TV, chances are you fell in love with something dangerous.โ
Special guest for the evening, actress and producer Jennifer Beals, shared her thoughts on the impact of libraries. โIf ever you are at a loss wondering if there is good in the world,โ she said, โyou have only to go to a... Read More