Pulse Films has added director Haley Elizabeth Anderson to its roster for commercials and branded content worldwide. This marks her first production house representation in the ad arena.
The NYC-based filmmaker is a rising talent. She wrote and directed Pillars which debuted this year at the Sundance Film Festival as a selection in the U.S. Narrative Short Films program. Additionally her short documentary If There Is Light was released on Hulu. If There Is Light debuted at last year’s Tribeca Film Festival as part of the Procter & Gamble-supported Queen Collective program aimed at accelerating gender and racial equality behind the camera. If There Is Light was one of two short films selected for Tribeca’s Queen Collective showcase, giving exposure to work created by diverse young women and inspiring positive social change.
Most recently, Anderson directed a seminal film for Hennessy and Droga5’s provocative and compelling “Unfinished Business” initiative, released to accompany the brand’s new program which pledges $3 million for small businesses hit hardest by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Anderson commented, “I am very happy to be joining the Pulse Films family and look forward to growing, learning, and working with the supportive people here. I’m so thankful for this opportunity to create more work and forge new collaborative relationships with like-minded artists in this next stage of my creative journey.”
Anderson is a filmmaker, writer, and photo-based visual artist from Houston, Texas. She recently graduated from New York University’s Graduate Film Program as a Dean’s Fellow.
With roots across the American South and Gulf Coast, and a background in playwriting and poetry, her work revolves around fragile, nebulous emotions in memories and coming-of-age experiences; familial mythology, and the ever-growing class-divide through mundane but significant moments of human vulnerability and intimacy. Although her work is often a meditation on personal histories and identity, she is interested in examining these ideas within a global landscape, experimenting with natural environments and cinematic language.
Before moving to New York, Haley worked in casting. Her experiences street-casting a Terrance Malick project in Austin, Texas led her to further develop her love for collaborating with first-time actors, a process that drives part of her aesthetic: a hybrid of narrative film and experimental documentary.
Her work has been featured at the Barbican in London, The Shed in New York, Le Cinema Club, the Criterion Channel, International Film Festival Rotterdam, and Sundance. She was recently selected as one of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film.”
Davud Karbassioun, global president, commercials/branded at Pulse, shared, “Haley and I met at Sundance in January where she was screening her film Pillars. It is such a beautiful piece–cinematic, authentic and artistic in equal measure.”
Changing OpenAI’s Nonprofit Structure Would Raise Questions and Heightened Scrutiny
The artificial intelligence maker OpenAI may face a costly and inconvenient reckoning with its nonprofit origins even as its valuation recently exploded to $157 billion.
Nonprofit tax experts have been closely watching OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT, since last November when its board ousted and rehired CEO Sam Altman. Now, some believe the company may have reached — or exceeded — the limits of its corporate structure, under which it is organized as a nonprofit whose mission is to develop artificial intelligence to benefit "all of humanity" but with for-profit subsidiaries under its control.
Jill Horwitz, a professor in law and medicine at UCLA School of Law who has studied OpenAI, said that when two sides of a joint venture between a nonprofit and a for-profit come into conflict, the charitable purpose must always win out.
"It's the job of the board first, and then the regulators and the court, to ensure that the promise that was made to the public to pursue the charitable interest is kept," she said.
Altman recently confirmed that OpenAI is considering a corporate restructure but did not offer any specifics. A source told The Associated Press, however, that the company is looking at the possibility of turning OpenAI into a public benefit corporation. No final decision has been made by the board and the timing of the shift hasn't been determined, the source said.
In the event the nonprofit loses control of its subsidiaries, some experts think OpenAI may have to pay for the interests and assets that had belonged to the nonprofit. So far, most observers agree OpenAI has carefully orchestrated its relationships between its nonprofit and its various other corporate entities to try to avoid that.
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