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Frank Samuel’s first industry gig was as a P.A. at Corman Studios, a famed spawning ground. He later became an assistant art director, working on such features as The Mask starring Jim Carrey, and Steven Soderbergh’s The Underneath....
Niklas Lilja was recently appointed innovation lead at Santa Monica, Calif.-based enso, a creative agency which helps brands like Google align business success with social impact. In his new role, Lilja leads the development...
Talking to Mark Duplass, you realize that he understands time management. He speaks in sound bites and doesn’t linger.
“I’m efficient with the time that I have when I have it,” he said in a recent interview.
And he’s busy.
Duplass and...
Last month Barney Pilling won the ACE Eddie Award for Best Edited Feature, Comedy or Musical, on the strength of his work on The Grand Budapest Hotel (Fox Searchlight Pictures). He also earned his first...
For his first feature film, The Imitation Game (The Weinstein Company), writer Graham Moore has earned an Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. But his is hardly an overnight cinematic success story...
It’s been a gratifying awards season for writer/producer Anthony McCarten who last month earned his first career Oscar nominations--Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay--on the strength of The...
SHOOT first caught up with documentary filmmaker Matthew Heineman in 2012 when Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare debuted at the Sundance Film Festival where it earned a nomination for the Documentary Grand Jury Prize. Heineman and Susan Froemke directed and...
Jeff Baron is a production veteran who broke into commercialmaking as a freelancer, became a bidder at Johns+Gorman Films and then joined Propaganda Films as a staff bidder. He moved onto HSI in the same role for several years followed by what was to be a 12-year tenure at Anonymous Content,...
Dody Dorn, ACE has a feature film track record with director David Ayer that started with End of Watch, went on to Sabotage and now has made a major impact with Fury (Sony Pictures...
British-born director Sam Cadman began his career directing the popular renegade TV series Trigger Happy TV, with comedian (and co-director) Dom Joly. Typical of the show’s irreverent spirit is a skit featuring a man screaming obnoxiously into a cell...