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    International Camp Kuleshov Competition Kicks Off With Naming Of AICE Toronto Chapter Winner

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    (L-r) Camp Kuleshov Toronto 2nd place winner Scott Edwards of Relish, 1st place winner Jes Frigon of By the Booth and 3rd place winner Julian Papas of Relish.

    Assistants at By the Booth and Relish earn top honors for their inspired trailers

    TORONTO --

    The first AICE Chapter to hold a 2015 Camp Kuleshov trailer competition for assistants has selected its winners.  First place went to assistant editor Jes Frigon of By The Booth for his trailer that recasts “Office Space,” the classic Mike Judge 1999 comedy about cubicle drones, into a foreboding thriller.

    Second and third place honors both went to assistants at Relish. Assistant Scott Edwards took second place for “Weird Science,” in which he re-imagined the 1985 John Hughes classic about two nerds who attempt to create their perfect woman as a Quentin Tarantino film. Finishing third was assistant Julian Papas for “The Johnny Utah Affairs,” which turns the Keanu Reeves – Patrick Swayze 1991 crime and surfer thriller “Point Break” into a love story about two buff surfers.

    The Camp Kuleshov awards presentation and party took place at the production company Cinecycle in Toronto on Tuesday, Oct. 20. Winners took home a number of prizes: First place winner Frigon won a Media Composer, courtesy of AICE Corporate Partner Avid, while second place winner Scott Edwards won a gift certificate from the royalty-free stock video, photo and image library Pond 5, another AICE corporate partner. All three of the top winners–-first, second and third place–also won $200, courtesy of the AICE Toronto Chapter.

    Coming up next on the 2015 International Camp Kuleshov competition circuit are events taking place on Oct. 28 in New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco, with additional Camp Kuleshov events set for Detroit on November 3 and Dallas, sponsored by the Texas Chapter, on November 5. The Dallas event will coincide with the association’s semi-annual International Board Meeting being held there.

    AICE announced in August that its Camp Kuleshov competition had gone international, with a unified format that has all assistants taking part in the various chapters working from the same creative briefs, entry rules and source films.

    By the Booth’s Frigon is now eligible to be voted the overall International Camp Kuleshov winner, which will be announced once all participating chapters have named their top winners. In addition to taking home an iMac–donated by Avid resellers AVI, CineSys-Oceana, Cutting Edge, HB Communications, KeyCode Media, Melrose MAC, T2 Computing, TM:Television and Vintage King Audio–as well as local bragging rights, the chapter winners and the overall winner will be feted at the 2016 AICE Awards presentation in Chicago, where the AICE’s first trailer competition was held.

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    Paul Thomas Anderson Wins Marquee Feature Honor At DGA Awards For “One Battle After Another”

    Sunday, February 8, 2026

    Paul Thomas Anderson won the marquee feature prize at the 78th Directors Guild of America (DGA) Awards on Saturday night (2/7) for One Battle After Another. This makes Anderson the frontrunner to win the Best Director Oscar. Only eight times over the past 77 years has the DGA Award winner not gone on to win the Academy Award. That happened most recently in 2020 when Sam Mendes won the DGA Award for 1917 while Bong Joon-ho scored the Oscar for Parasite. Anderson topped a field of DGA nominees which also included Ryan Coogler for Sinners, Guillermo del Toro for Frankenstein, Josh Safdie for Marty Supreme, and Chloé Zhao for Hamnet. In his acceptance speech, Anderson paid tribute to his first assistant director Adam Somner, who died in 2024. Anderson described Somner as someone who took his work “so seriously” but “did not take himself seriously at all”--that was part of his beauty. Anderson affirmed that Somner was “a great AD” who “made us feel safe,” mitigating the hazards that often accompany ambitious production. Anderson wished other directors in the audience a colleague like Somner. And if they already have one, Anderson advised them to hold that AD close in love and appreciation. The other DGA theatrical motion picture award--named after the late filmmaker Michael Apted in recognition of outstanding achievement by a first-time feature director--went to Charlie Polinger for The Plague. On the TV side, winners included Amanda Marsalis who topped the dramatic series category for the “6:00 P.M.” episode of The Pitt; Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg who took comedy series honors for “The Oner” episode of The Studio; Shannon Murphy for the... Read More

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