Creative studio Aggressive has expanded into a bigger collective: Loop, Niceshit, Andrey Trevgoda, and Melody Maker have come aboard, joining the company’s founders Alex Topaller and Daniel Shapiro. Loop is a multidisciplinary collective specializing in creative and art direction, visual storytelling, and motion design. Its portfolio includes cutting-edge videos for Adidas, and data-inspired projects for Intel, as well as cinematic and atmospheric opening sequences for Amazon’s Inside The Boys. Barcelona-based trio Niceshit consists of Carmen Angelillo, Guido Lambertini, and Rodier Kidmann, turning out illustration and animation work that’s notable for its playful character design, bold colors, and humorous narratives–from elegant line-driven projects for Google and Offline CBD, to complex 2D mixed with 3D pieces like The Feelings or live-action driven Shoe Show. Creative commercial and music video director Trevgoda uses his visual language to solve communication problems over multi-format media for brands such as VICE, TikTok, and Nestlé. Melody Maker started out styling artists like M.I.A., Rihanna, and Iggy Azalea before joining the cult youth brand BOY London as creative director. A veteran of The Mill, Melody has to her credit music videos for Gorgon City and Greentea Peng, the gravity-defying Oppo “Shake,” as well as films for clients such as Logitech, Gillette and Herbal Essences. Topaller and Shapiro teamed as a duo to garner Grammy, MTV VMA, The One Show and D&AD awards recognition. Their experiences have been exhibited at SXSW, Global Expo Dubai and The UN General Assembly….
Writers of “Conclave,” “Say Nothing” Win Scripter Awards
The authors and screenwriters behind the film “Conclave” and the series “Say Nothing” won the 37th-annual USC Libraries Scripter Awards during a black-tie ceremony at USC’s Town and Gown ballroom on Saturday evening (2/22).
The Scripter Awards recognize the year’s 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 “Conclave.”
In accepting the award, Straughan said, “Adaptation is a really strange process, you’re very much the servant of two masters. In a way it’s an act of betrayal of one master for the other.” He joked that “You start off with a book that you love, you read it again and again, and then you end up throwing it over your shoulder,” crediting author Robert Harris for being “so kind, so generous, so open throughout.”
In the episodic series category, Joshua Zetumer and Patrick Radden Keefe won for the episode “The People in the Dirt” from the limited series “Say Nothing,” which Zetumer adapted from Keefe’s nonfiction book about the Troubles in Ireland.
Zetumer referenced this year’s extraordinary group of Scripter finalists, saying “projects like these reminded me of why I wanted to become a writer when I was sitting in USC’s 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.”
Special guest for the evening, actress and producer Jennifer Beals, shared her thoughts on the impact of libraries. “If ever you are at a loss wondering if there is good in the world,” she said, “you have only to go to a... Read More