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    Welcome to the Special Fall 2014 Edition of SHOOT’s Directors Series

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    Robert Goldrich

    By Robert Goldrich

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    Welcome to the Special Fall 2014 Edition of SHOOT’s Directors Series. Our mix of profiles includes: Bennett Miller, this year’s Best Director winner at the Cannes Film Festival for Foxcatcher, a feature generating Oscar buzz; Theodore Melfi, whose theatrical motion picture directing debut, St. Vincent, premiered to rave reviews and a measure of Oscar-related speculation at last month’s Toronto International Film Festival; Debra Granik, who’s diversified into the documentary discipline after seeing her Winter’s Bone garner four Oscar nominations, including for Best Picture, in 2011; and Rory Kennedy, an accomplished documentarian whose Last Days in Vietnam recently went into wide theatrical release and is slated to run on PBS as part of the American Experience series.

    Interestingly all these directors have a spotmaking connection. Miller made his first mark in commercials and continues to be repped for spots and branded content by production house Smuggler. Melfi recently teamed with long-time colleague, exec producer Rich Carter, to launch commercial/branded entertainment production company brother. Granik is represented for ad assignments via SPLENDID & Co. And Kennedy recently secured her first spot representation via Nonfiction Limited.

    Rounding out our lineup of profiles is director Lance Acord of Park Pictures. Acord directed Apple’s “Misunderstood” which back in August won the primetime commercial Emmy Award. Acord has a feature film in development at Disney based on a Jack London novel; he also is partnered in Park Pictures’ feature film division which has in recent years turned out three movies, all of which have debuted at the Sundance Film Festival.

    Meanwhile our lineup of promising, up-and-coming directorial talent includes: a helming duo whose pedigree includes five Emmy Awards between them; a copywriter who has settled successfully into the director’s chair; a music video director who’s made a major ad splash with a tug-at-the-heartstrings spot that has scored online and on air; a director who put his creative touch on an agency’s over-the-top self-promotional short which went on to score a Cannes Bronze Lion; and a still photographer who has extended his creative filmmaking reach to food/tabletop videos and spots.

    In our Cinematographers & Cameras Series, we meet three DPs who all scored impressively at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.

    Also in this e.dition are a pair of Chat Room columns–one featuring Miguel Arteta, an indie filmmaker who reflects on his first studio feature, Disney's Aleander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day; the other on director Jesse Moss whose documentary The Overnighters won a Special Jury Prize for Intuitive Filmmaking at Sundance.

    Plus we have coverage of stuntmen Chad Stahelski and David Leitch who teamed to direct the action thriller John Wick, and a wrap-up of the recently concluded London Film Festival.

    So read on and enjoy. As always, we welcome your feedback.

    Fall 2014 Directors Intro
    Lance Acord
    Debra Granik
    Rory Kennedy 
    Theodore Melfi
    Bennett Miller

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    Apple and Google Face UK Investigation Into Mobile Browser Dominance

    Saturday, November 23, 2024

    Apple and Google aren't giving consumers a genuine choice of mobile web browsers, a British watchdog said Friday in a report that recommends they face an investigation under new U.K. digital rules taking effect next year.

    The Competition and Markets Authority took aim at Apple, saying the iPhone maker's tactics hold back innovation by stopping rivals from giving users new features like faster webpage loading. Apple does this by restricting progressive web apps, which don't need to be downloaded from an app store and aren't subject to app store commissions, the report said.

    "This technology is not able to fully take off on iOS devices," the watchdog said in a provisional report on its investigation into mobile browsers that it opened after an initial study concluded that Apple and Google effectively have a chokehold on "mobile ecosystems."

    The CMA's report also found that Apple and Google manipulate the choices given to mobile phone users to make their own browsers "the clearest or easiest option."

    And it said that the a revenue-sharing deal between the two U.S. Big Tech companies "significantly reduces their financial incentives" to compete in mobile browsers on Apple's iOS operating system for iPhones.

    Both companies said they will "engage constructively" with the CMA.

    Apple said it disagreed with the findings and said it was concerned that the recommendations would undermine user privacy and security.

    Google said the openness of its Android mobile operating system "has helped to expand choice, reduce prices and democratize access to smartphones and apps" and that it's "committed to open platforms that empower consumers."

    It's the latest move by regulators on both sides of the Atlantic to crack down on the... Read More

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