Anonymous Content has hired Johnathan Wright as co-head of West Coast sales & marketing. He partners with Lisa Sabatino to represent Anonymous Content, Serial Pictures, Somesuch & Co. and Iconoclast directors for commercials on the West Coast. Wright previously worked at Team One Advertising, Shortlist Management and Tool of North America….Big Deahl Productions Chicago–the food and tabletop specialty house headed by director David Deahl and EP Rosemary Deahl–has signed Brandon Pico of indie firm HAPA to handle its East Coast representation. Big Deahl has recently added director Todd Klein….ShootersTV, the division of ShootersINC which develops and produces non-fiction television, has signed with UTA (United Talent Agency)/N.S. Bienstock for representation. UTA agents Allison Wallach and Adam Leibner are slated to represent ShootersTV. ShootersTV produces Food Network’s long running hit Restaurant: Impossible which recently celebrated its 100th episode. Other recent shows include Bar Hunters for Discovery Channel….Jason Garber, who worked his way up through the ranks at ICM, Paradigm and Fox, has joined Innovative Artists’ production division as a production agent. Garber joins VP Debbie Haeusler and fellow agents Heather Griffith, Craig Mizrahi, Cecilia Banck and Robbyn Foxx….Cinematographer Marten Tedin has completed principal photography on Adam Corolla and Kevin Hench’s Road Hard and is again available for commercials and feature films through The Skouras Agency, Santa Monica….
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