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Dee Rees Bottom Row (L-R) Todd Haynes; Reginald Hudlin; Miles Jay; Damian Kulash Page 10 www.SHOOTonline.com October/November 2017 Chat Room 4 Cinematographers DIRECTORS & Cameras 22 Fall 2017 Series Top row (l-r) Sean Baker; Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris; Stephen Frears; Craig Gillespie Middle Dee Rees Bottom row (l-r) Todd Haynes; Reginald Hudlin; Miles Jay; Damian Kulash Page 10 James Bray, Arnold Worldwide Top 10 Tracks Chart 24 Photo courtesy of Fox Searchlight Pictures Searchlight courtesyPhoto of Fox Top 10 VFX & Animation Chart 26 The Road To OscarSeries Prequel 6 Photo courtesyPhoto of Netflix Photo courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox Twentieth courtesyPhoto of INTRODUCING The Professional Commercial, Movie My & TV Production and Post Talent db MySHOOT is for professional motion picture artisans, and MYSHOOTONLINE.COM the companies who represent them, to promote their work and profi les to brand, agency, network, movie studio, and other producers. 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Follow SHOOT at: steering committee that sets standards for genuine 360°sound. Binaural recordings The full list of core definitions appears the entertainment industry. In the past, frequently use a “binaural dummy head,” in the Friday (10/27) SHOOT>e.dition ver- #SHOOTONLINE EMA has set standards for mezzanine a model of a human head complete with sion of this column as well as on SHOOT- files, metadata files and core definitions anatomically correct ears and ear canals, online.com. October/November 2017 SHOOT 3 CHAT ROOM Niklas Lindström Partner in just launched W+K-backed indie agency CALLEN discusses his priorities, Swedish influence By Robert Goldrich now. We’re lucky to have a simple and focused business model that Niklas Lindström, known for his production acumen yielding break- actually works.”” through work, is a partner in the just launched CALLEN, an independent W+K witnessed Allen’s creative prowess and resulting body of work creative agency in Austin, Texas. Founded by former Wieden+Kennedy first-hand. He had been with W+K since 2008 and put his imprint on (W+K) group creative director Craig Allen with partners Lindström and brands including Old Spice, Nike, Coca-Cola, CareerBuilder.com, Elec- business entrepreneur Holly Petitjean, CALLEN is being backed by W+K tronic Arts, Oreo and Samsung. as a minority investor. CALLEN enjoys complete autonomy. The only Meanwhile Lindström is known for culture-defining work at several condition W+K placed on its investment is that CALLEN can never be notable industry roosts, most recently as director of interactive produc- sold and must remain independent. tion at Droga5 New York, where he created immersive experiences The investment in CALLEN is a first for W+K. Colleen DeCourcy, co- for clients including Under Armour, MailChimp and Hennessy. Prior chief creative officer for W+K, said, “Craig is a unique voice. He’s willing to Droga5, Lindström headed up digital at Forsman & Bodenfors in to pull himself up on the work and do it for the long term.
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