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    Tom Vale named film & TV licensing manager at FirstCom Music

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    SANTA MONICA, Calif. --

    FirstCom Music, a provider of music for film, broadcast and new media, has hired Tom Vale to serve as film & TV licensing manager.
     
    Vale comes over to the FirstCom Music team from Austin, Texas. He founded Frog Music Licensing in 2010 with the goal of connecting the singer/songwriter talent in Austin with placement opportunities in TV, film, advertising and gaming worldwide.

    Carol Riffert, VP/general manager of FirstCom Music, said of Vale, “He has the unique ability to find just the right music to perfectly set a scene. His extensive experience working with the film and TV community and his knowledge of music licensing are a winning combination for our clients.”
     
    Vale has facilitated music placements in an extensive line up of television programs, including Nashville (ABC), Empire (FOX), Breaking Bad (AMC), The Walking Dead (AMC), The Good Wife (CBS), Ray Donovan (Showtime), Togetherness (HBO), The Following (FOX), Twisted (ABC), Californication (Showtime), Parenthood (NBC), Sons of Anarchy (FX), Lucifer (FOX), From Dusk Til Dawn (El Rey), Satisfaction (USA), Casual (Hulu), Private Practice (ABC), Hart of Dixie (CW), Royal Pains (USA) and Degrassi Next Generation (Teen Nick), and in the films Everything Must Go, Hold Your Peace, The Expatriate, Snitch, The Loft, and more, plus in national ad campaigns for Goodyear Tires, Nabisco, Bobbi Brown Cosmetics and PGA Golf, among others.

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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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