Production and management company Anonymous Content has tapped Leah Joyce as head of sales for its U.K. office. Joyce will work directly with Anonymous Content U.K.’s managing director and executive producer Tor Fitzwilliams to offer the U.K. access to its talent pool of directors including: Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Autumn de Wilde, Bardia Zeinali, Mark Romanek, Olivia Wilde, Patrick Daughters, thirtytwo, and Tim Godsall. Joyce comes to Anonymous Content U.K. from MindsEye, where as head of sales, she nurtured the production company’s existing talent and identified fresh voices, while deepening her relationships with commercial creatives and agency producers. While there, Joyce also oversaw the launch of the company’s music video department. Prior to MindsEye, Joyce spent five years at Academy Films, with the last two as head of the music video department. In that role, she was responsible for seeking out fresh talent. She signed many notable talents for Academy, including Ian Pons Jewell, Savanah Leaf and Nadia Lee Cohen. Joyce also worked closely with directors Us, Seb Edwards and Marcus Soderlund, and oversaw videos produced for artists including Rudimental, Hozier, Jon Hopkins, Mura Masa and Jack White….
Light Iron, a provider of innovative postproduction creative services and part of Panavision’s end-to-end offerings for content creators, has hired Ian Kerner as VP of business development. Kerner works out of Light Iron’s Los Angeles facility. Reporting to and working closely with Katie Fellion, SVP of business development and postproudction strategy at Light Iron, Kerner oversees global sales and business development and new market strategies. He will also strategically align sales efforts with Panavision to maximize the value proposition of the companies’ shared production-to-post offerings. Kerner brings nearly 20 years of postproduction sales experience to Light Iron. He previously worked in director and VP roles at LaserPacific, Modern VideoFilm, Mad Old Nut Productions and, most recently, Technicolor….
Taylor Swift Wins Big At MTV Video Music Awards, Ties Beyoncé’s Record
Taylor Swift 's dominance continued at the MTV Video Music Awards, where she took home seven awards — including the night's biggest, the trophy for video of the year.
In her speech Wednesday night, Swift thanked her "boyfriend, Travis" for being on set of the "Fortnight" music video and cheering her on. Fans rewarded the mention of NFL star Travis Kelce with loud screams.
"Everything this man touches turns to happiness and fun and magic," she said, before shifting gears to the 2024 presidential election and instructing her fans who are over 18 to register to vote.
Swift did, however, avoid discussing Kamala Harris' presidential bid on stage. On Tuesday night, Swift endorsed the vice president, moments after Harris' debate with former president Donald Trump ended.
Swift's awards haul brings her to a career total of 30, tying her and Beyonc for the title of most-awarded musician in VMA history. Eminem is now the male artist with the most VMAs, at 14.
Swift and Post Malone also took home the first televised award of the VMAs for best collaboration, for "Fortnight," handed to them by Flavor Flav and Olympian Jordan Chiles.
Swift started that speech by giving remembrance to everyone who lost their lives and loved ones during 9/11, 23 years ago.
"I've just been thinking about what happened 23 years ago, everyone who lost a loved one and everyone that we lost and that is the most important thing about today," she said. "And everything that happens tonight falls behind that."
She then turned to discussing Malone.
"There is a reason Post Malone is everyone in music's favorite person to collaborate with," she shifted her attention to him. "It has taken forever for me to get him to stop calling me... Read More