LOGAN, a bicoastal content-creation studio, has appointed Paul Abatemarco as executive producer in Los Angeles, adding two decades of production expertise and close work with the world’s largest brands.
Prior to LOGAN, Abatemarco oversaw sales and operations for Brand New School’s West Coast studio, helping guide the company to record growth during that time. Abatemarco also helped lead MPC launch MPC Creative in the United States and has served as executive producer at Stardust. Most recently, Abatemarco was managing director at Los York.
Abatemarco’s experience includes campaigns with brands such as Nike, Google, Target, Adidas, Honda, Ford and Toyota. The commercial and advertising veteran also served on the management side at studios such as Digital Domain and Radium, and was director of operations at postproduction operation R!OT.
LOGAN, along with its roster of directors at Logan & Sons, has worked on recent brand campaigns for Apple, Nike, BMW, Clinique and Cisco, among others. The company’s latest entertainment marketing campaigns include Netflix’s Santa Clarita Diet and the Clio award-winning work for 20th Century Fox’s blockbuster X-Men: Apocalypse.
Full Lineup Set For AFI Fest; Official Selections Span 44 Countries, Include 9 Best International Feature Oscar Submissions
The American Film Institute (AFI) has unveiled the full lineup for this year’s AFI Fest, taking place in Los Angeles from October 23-27. Rounding out the slate of already announced titles are such highlights as September 5 directed by Tim Fehlbaum, All We Imagine As Light directed by Payal Kapadia, The Luckiest Man in America directed by Samir Oliveros (AFI Class of 2019), Zurawski v. Texas from executive producers Hillary Clinton, Chelsea Clinton and Jennifer Lawrence and directors Maisie Crow and Abbie Perrault, and Oh, Canada directed by Paul Schrader (AFI Class of 1969). A total of 158 films are set to screen at the 38th edition of AFI Fest.
Of the official selections, 48% are directed by women and non-binary filmmakers and 26% are directed by BIPOC filmmakers.
Additional festival highlights include documentaries Architecton directed by Victor Kossakovsky; Cheech & Chong’s Last Movie directed by David Bushell; Devo directed by Chris Smith about the legendary new wave provocateurs; Gaucho Gaucho directed by Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw; Group Therapy directed by Neil Berkeley with Emmy® winner Neil Patrick Harris and Tig Notaro; No Other Land directed by a Palestinian-Israeli team comprised of Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor and Hamdan Ballal; Pavements directed by Alex Ross Perry; and Separated directed by Errol Morris. Notable narrative titles include Black Dog (Gou Zen) directed by Guan Hu; Bonjour Tristesse directed by Durga Chew-Bose with Academy Award® nominee Chloë Sevigny; Caught By The Tides directed by Jia Zhangke; Hard Truths directed by Mike Leigh with... Read More