Daniel Mirsky joins Twist’s sales staff
Twist has added Daniel Mirsky to its staff sales team. He joins fellow team members Rob Neill and Kathryn Lotis to represent nationwide Twist’s directorial roster which includes: Rich Michell, Matt Pittroff, Scott Pitts, Chris Stocksmith and Marc André Debruyne; and recent roster addition, integrated creative collective Tomato. Mirsky continues his creative pursuits as an ensemble member of theatre company The New York Neo-Futurists, for whom he previously worked as a technical director and artistic collaborator. He brings to Twist much experience in environmental activism and sales, with organizations such as Greenpeace, Green Mountain Energy, and 3D printing startup Makerbot.
Skouras welcomes back production designers
Production designer David Batchelor Wilson has wrapped principal photography on Soham Mehta’s Run the Tide starring Taylor Lautner and produced by Pilar Savone. The production designer is again available for commercials and features through The Skouras Agency. The same holds true for Skouras production designer Kevin Kavanaugh who recently completed Otto Bathurst’s Hysteria.
Calderon joins Band Pro's sales team
Christian Calderon has joined the sales team of Band Pro Film & Digital, Inc. at its Burbank headquarters. An experienced DP, producer and media specialist, Calderon has worked in the professional broadcast and cinema industry for over 15 years. In addition to studying at the New York Film Academy and earning a BA in Communications from Cal State Northridge, Calderon has delivered over 600 talk show episodes for the Telemundo Network, and has worked producing over 100 short and long form commercials over the course of his career. Calderon’s hiring also comes, in part, as a response to the ongoing Latin American industry renaissance. A fluent speaker of Spanish, Italian, and English, Calderon will work closely with Band Pro’s international Latin American market client base, as well as local Los Angeles and domestic US clientele.
Review: Director John Crowley’s “We Live In Time”
It's not hard to spend a few hours watching Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield fall and be in love. In "We Live In Time," filmmaker John Crowley puts the audience up close and personal with this photogenic British couple through the highs and lows of a relationships in their 30s.
Everyone starts to think about the idea of time, and not having enough of it to do everything they want, at some point. But it seems to hit a lot of us very acutely in that tricky, lovely third decade. There's that cruel biological clock, of course, but also careers and homes and families getting older. Throw a cancer diagnosis in there and that timer gets ever more aggressive.
While we, and Tobias (Garfield) and Almut (Pugh), do indeed live in time, as we're constantly reminded in big and small ways — clocks and stopwatches are ever-present, literally and metaphorically — the movie hovers above it. The storytelling jumps back and forth through time like a scattershot memory as we piece together these lives that intersect in an elaborate, mystical and darkly comedic way: Almut runs into Tobias with her car. Their first chat is in a hospital hallway, with those glaring fluorescent lights and him bruised and cut all over. But he's so struck by this beautiful woman in front of him, he barely seems to care.
I suppose this could be considered a Lubitschian "meet-cute" even if it knowingly pushes the boundaries of our understanding of that romance trope. Before the hit, Tobias was in a hotel, attempting to sign divorce papers and his pens were out of ink and pencils kept breaking. In a fit of near-mania he leaves, wearing only his bathrobe, to go to a corner store and buy more. Walking back, he drops something in the street and bang: A new relationship is born. It's the... Read More