Huge has appointed Nathan Weyer as the agency’s new managing director for Europe. He is the former VP and general manager of frog Europe, which he ran for the past four years. Weyer will divide his time between Amsterdam and London and work closely with Huge’s president and COO, Shirley Au who oversees the company’s global operations out of London. Over the last 12 months, Huge London has built out its own European offering. Huge London currently works with European brands Eurosport, SEAT, Unilever and Diageo, along with British companies such as FatFace and Ascot Racecourse….Director Dale Heslip has joined the roster of Toronto-based Sparks. His body of work spans commercials and TV; he even hit number one on the Billboard charts with a three-hour concert film he directed for Rush. Heslip commenced his career by being a successful art director and by the time Aerosmith asked him to design their live set, he had already entered the world of directing music videos. Heslip’s award-winning videos led him to directing television commercials, literally hundreds of them. He managed to diversify into episodic comedy, short films and documentaries….
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