Vicki Ordeshook has been named executive producer, national sales and marketing, for Superlounge, working alongside EP/partner Dave Farrell. In the newly created role, Ordeshook will oversee sales and marketing for the production company. She has secured James Bartlett of Mr. Bartlett for East Coast representation, and John Buckley of Buckley Reps on the West Coast. Kristina Kovacevic-Plunkett and Joanna Miller of KK&Joanna remain in place in the Midwest. Prior to joining Superlounge, Ordeshook spent three years at Elias, where she served as an EP across all facets of its business with a concentration on sales and marketing.
Ordeshook graduated from LMU’s School of Film and Television with a degree in Film Production, then joined music/sound company Machine Head, where she rose through the ranks to executive producer. Over the next decade, she expanded her producing skills beyond advertising into film, television and video games, including serving as executive music and sound roducer of The Call, starring John Malkovich and Uma Thurman, directed by Antoine Fuqua and sponsored by Pirelli Tires. Additionally, Ordeshook worked in artist management, live action production, post and sales, before joining Elias in 2013.
“I’m excited to be involved in taking Superlounge to the next level,” said Ordeshook,-“building the roster and spreading the news about their talents, delightful personalities, hands-on approach and commitment to making great stories come to life. This position is also a great opportunity to get back to my first love, filmmaking.”
Superlounge recently completed production on its second round of Toyota’s “Built To Amaze” digital campaign (via Saatchi LA), and a Ford campaign created via GTB (formerly Team Detroit). Both projects were directed by Jordan Brady.
In addition to Brady, the Superlounge roster is comprised of award-winning commercial directors Daniel Sheppard, Brett Wagner, Barton Landsman, Jeff Aron Lable and Jeanette Godoy.
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