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Director Rachel Harms Joins The Joneses
Bi-coastal spot company The Joneses has signed 4-time
Emmy Award-winning director Rachel Harms to its roster for
exclusive U.S. representation for commercials. Harms has
earned a reputation as a versatile,
imaginative craftsperson, equally
adept at drawing subtle, nuanced
performances from actors and real
people, and at staging elaborate,
large-scale productions that
draw on her experience as a
choreographer.
Harms has been especially busy
over the past year in international
advertising, directing spots in
Canada for BBDO, Toronto,
Slovenia for Rodnaya Rech/
Publicis and Russia for Y&R Moscow. Her skills as a storyteller,
evident in acclaimed U.S. campaigns for Quaker Oats,
Southwest Airlines and Tide among others, are being
reaffirmed through her current vignette and dialogue work
in many languages. Harms is slated to shoot in Russia and
Portugal in March.
Harms established her credentials as a content creator
early in her career through her association with Sesame
Street, for whom she directed 32 short films, four of which
won Emmys. In 2007, she sold a treatment for a children’s
series to Nickelodeon, and she is currently writing a series
based on her dance background as well as developing an
interactive game.
//www.thejoneses.tv
Chelsea Is Proud To Announce The Signing Of Neil Tardio,
Alex Gibney And Jonathan Brown.
Neil Tardio’s artistic spirit began with a short stint as a
photographer in Milan. He returned to the US shortly there
after to pursue a career in the ad business as an agency
producer and writer for Saatchi & Saatchi (NY and LA),
as well as DDB/Chicago. Since then, he has moved on
as A-list comedic director with such accomplishments as
a nomination for an Emmy, Cannes Lions, several Clios,
ADDY Awards, and his AICP Award-winning work is in the
permanent collection at the MOMA.
One of today’s most prolific documentary film makers
(“Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room” and “Taxi to the
Dark Side”), Alex Gibney is in a league of his own. Now a
Oscar winner (Best Documentary for “Taxi to the Dark Side”
in 2008), Alex can be found at his own production company,
Jigsaw Productions, where he produces independent films,
music documentaries, and TV mini-series.
As the son of the man who invented the steadicam,
Jonathan Brown was destined to make waves in the
entertainment industry. He started out of college working
on feature films and developed his skills in cinematography.
Soon, he was shooting his own work, as well as freelancing
as director of photography on commercials and several
independent films before breaking into the studio system.
//www.chelsea.com
Uber Content’s Marc Scholermann
Dressed To Thrill With “Pathology”
“Pathology,” the feature film directed by Über Content’s
Marc Schölermann, made its debut Friday, April 18, 2008, at
the ArcLight Cinemas in Hollywood, and is being released
through Lion’s Gate films. Schölermann’s spot work includes
projects for BMW, Lexus, Nissan, and Fiat.
The dark medical thriller focuses on a group of pathologists
who devise a game wherein one player kills someone
and the others have to figure out how they died. Milo
Ventimiglia (of the NBC hit Heroes) stars as a medical
student who is taken under the wings of these doctors and
quickly finds himself being drawn into their dangerous and
sinister game.
The William Morris Agency first brought the script to
Schölermann’s attention via Lakeshore Entertainment. The
writing team of Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor penned
the screenplay, which struck a chord with Schölermann. “I
loved its dark, twisted and unusual nature,” he recalls.
//www.ubercontent.com
jumP’s Lin Polito And Director
Benita Raphan Head To Tribeca
“Great Genius and Profound Stupidity,” a 27-minute
experimental documentary, produced and directed by
Benita Raphan and edited by New York-based jumP’s
Lin Polito, has been selected for a worldwide premiere
in competition at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival. The film,
which continues Raphan’s ongoing series on an elusive mix
of geniuses, is an investigation of the balance between
perceptions of intellect and idiocy, and is slated for American
broadcast on The Sundance Channel next year.
“Benita’s films are usually about a specific person...this
project was unique and challenging in that it focused on
the overall concept of creativity.” commented Polito. “It
was an extremely collaborative environment. I was able to
really take my time with this, which is very different from the
typical [30- and 60-second time frame] world I normally
work within.”
Lin has been an
editor in New York
City for nearly 20
years and has
taken home a
Clio award as
well as a Gold
at the New York
Festival. Lin’s work