NY-based production company Easy Mondays has secured Veronica Lombardo Management (VLM) for representation on the West Coast and in Texas. VLM rounds out an Easy Mondays sales team that includes Carl Forsberg and Justin Lasoff (Apostle) on the East Coast, Sarah Gitersonke (SG&Partners) in the Midwest, and Marta Burga who handles the Hispanic market. Headed by founder/EP Asori Soto, Easy Mondays has a directorial roster which includes Biceps, Sebastian Caporelli, Luis Gerard, Matt Hranek, Kristian Mercado, Plastico, Maca Rubio, Tomat, Nes Buzzalino, and Yann Malka…..
Editorial, finishing, and VFX studio Uppercut is adding new East Coast and Midwest representation for its New York and Atlanta offices. Jen Giles + Partners will represent them in the Midwest and Anna Rotholz Management will handle the East Coast. Chicago-based Jen Giles + Partners is a talent management boutique representing a diverse group of directors and artists for commercials, branded content, and experiential projects across the Midwest market. Giles started her company in 2010 and has been in the advertising and production community for 20 years. Giles currently represents companies including CoMPANY Films, Identity, Minted Content, Washington Square Films, Yonder, and Uppercut’s music partner Racket Club. Anna Rotholz Management is based in New York and covers the East Coast and Latinx markets. Rotholz brings over a decade of broad understanding in conveying talents’ capabilities and goals, having spent the majority of her career as an independent rep working with such shops as Ziegler Management, The Family, and as in-house head of sales at Believe Media. Her current roster includes production companies Rocket Film, Hey Baby, Bindery, and Bodega….
Stephan Schenk has been appointed general manager global sales & solutions for ARRI’s hardware products as well as its solutions business. This newly created position aims to combine and align the sales and service activities across all ARRI product groups and expand the systems business across all markets. In this role, Schenk reports directly to executive board member Markus Zeiler. Schenk is responsible for all the sales and service departments of the camera systems and lighting business units, including the ARRI System Group in Berlin. Additionally, the regional managers from the Americas, China, East Asia Pacific, and EMEAI will report to Schenk who joined ARRI on August 1, 2009, as head of ARRI’s Business Unit Camera Systems. He was appointed managing director of Arnold & Richter Cine Technik in July 2014…..
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