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    Way Brothers Join Duplass Shop DBP Donut For Spots, Branded Entertainment

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    Chapman Way (l) and Maclain Way
    LOS ANGELES --

    Chapman and Maclain Way–the director siblings behind the Netflix docuseries Wild Wild Country, which is nominated for five primetime Emmy Awards–have joined forces with Mark and Jay Duplass’ creative shop DBP Donut to helm commercial and branded entertainment work.

    The Way Brothers teamed as directors/producers on Wild Wild Country, collaborating with exec producers Mark and Jay Duplass. The acclaimed Wild Wild Country tells the story of the Rajneeshee community and its conflict with the Oregon government and residents in the 1980s. Wild Wild Country is currently up for Emmys in these categories: Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series, Outstanding Directing for a Documentary/Nonfiction Program (for the Way brothers), Outstanding Picture Editing For A Nonfiction Program, Outstanding Sound Editing For A Nonfiction Program (Single or Multi-Camera), and Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Nonfiction Program (Single or Multi-Camera).

    The Way Brothers’ debut film, The Battered Bastards of Baseball, premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival where it was acquired by Netflix and released as one of its earliest original documentary films.

    Charlie Leahy, co-founder and creative director at DBP Donut, said, “Mac and Chap are not only phenomenal directors but 100 percent natural storytellers. As soon as we met, we realized they would be a perfect fit for our team. We’re buzzing to get making stuff together.”

    DBP Donut was launched in May 2017 by the Duplass brothers, Leahy and engagement director Nigel Lopez-McBean. The creative shop focuses on entertainment-led content creation for brands and short-form original content creation for platforms. DBP Donut has worked with the likes of Amazon, Lyft and Levi’s and is credited with being the first company to be commissioned by Snap/NBCU to create scripted original series for the platform. The Duplass brothers meanwhile are also known for their work spanning other varied disciplines, including TV and feature filmmaking.

    Maclain Way said, “While we were editing Wild Wild Country, we met the DBP Donut team and immediately connected with their innovative approach to working with brands.  We’re so excited to continue to find some awesome partners and projects to work on together.”

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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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