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Home » Director Marc Wilkins Joins humble

Director Marc Wilkins Joins humble

Marc Wilkins, a European talent who now calls New York his home, has joined the directorial roster at humble, the hybrid production and post company that’s based in Manhattan and L.A.  He was previously repped in the U.S. by Rabbit and prior to that, Caviar.

Wilkins’ work includes ads for such U.S. agencies as McCann, Goodby Silverstein & Partners and JWT, and his reel includes spots and web shorts for such brands as Schick, Mercedes-Benz, Nivea and BMW. His spot for New York City’s iconic Bowlmor Lanes, created with a team of freelance creatives led by creative director Marty Weiss, earned inclusion in SHOOT’s “The Best Work You May Never See” gallery (3/3/11). More recently, his New York-based dramatic short, “Hotel Pennsylvania,” was an official selection of numerous festivals worldwide and awarded with both jury and audience prizes.

The director’s Danish ad for that country’s Midttrafik bus line, “The Bus,” was a viral sensation that mixed stylized storytelling, over the top performances and a general sense of faux awesomeness that comes off as hilarious. Similarly, his “Grumpy Grandfather” for the Eastern European brand Cherkashin Meats shows a grizzled old villager whose enjoyment of a simple meat sandwich gets interrupted by a sequence of annoyances, all of which he deals with in truly absurd fashion.

Wilkins was born in Switzerland and raised on the island of Crete and in Germany, where he got his start in the industry, working his way up the production ranks on feature films.  He directed his first short while still in his teens, and became heavily involved in the short format scene, founding a group called Kinoherz to focus on the genre.

In his early 20s, Wilkins saw his work recognized by the Commercial Film Producers-Europe (CFP-E) Young Guns festival for emerging directorial talent, and in 2003 he was included in the Saatchi & Saatchi New Directors Showcase in Cannes. It was a good year for Wilkins in the South of France, as his PSA for Doctors Without Borders, “Game Over,” also won a Gold Lion.

Wilkins said he felt an instant simpatico with humble’s executive producer Ned Brown, along with president/founder Eric Berkowitz and exec producer Persis Koch.

The ability to work at a studio that combines production, post and VFX capabilities, Wilkins added, aligns perfectly with his sensibilities and background as a filmmaker.  “I came up with a European upbringing, where post production is an integral part of making a film,” he explained.  “It’s important for me to be able to compose a project on every level, so having these capabilities in house gives me much more space in which to work.”

 

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NJ – Governor Murphy signs $14B Incentive Program Bill – the NJ Economic Recovery Act of 2020

 Film tax credits — amending existing programs to include provisions for so-called New Jersey film partners and New Jersey film-lease partners and allowing an additional $200 million of tax credits annually over 13 years.

Click this link if you want to read the full article on the Lexology site. http://bit.ly/35NtDx6

Film Commish announces date for production restart

In her December 18, 2020 news update, MOME Commissioner Anne del Castillo announced that the Film Office is now accepting permit applications for production activity that begins on July 27th.

She also announced awards now (Awkwafina) and more. To read all of the Film Commish’s bloggy sort of news column, click here.

Stimulus Offers $15 Billion in Relief for Struggling Arts Venues

The coronavirus relief package that Congressional leaders agreed to this week includes grant money that many small proprietors described as a last hope for survival.

For the music venue owners, theater producers and cultural institutions that have suffered through the pandemic with no business, the coronavirus relief package that Congress passed on Monday night offers the prospect of aid at last.

To read the full article on The New York Times’ site, click here.

If you want to start production, here’s the latest news from the Mayor’s Office

Phase 4 production guidance is available on the Film Permit website. All production activity, whether it requires a Film Permit or not, must comply with New York Forward Industry Guidance.

For more information see, please refer to the State Department of Health’s Interim Guidance for Media Production During the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency. Please review the guidelines and FAQ before submitting permit applications. The Film Office is operating remotely, so please allow additional time for Film Permit processing.

The above paragraphs contain links to the various FAQ – just mouse over the relevant words.

Nikon to Stop Making Cameras in Japan

Nikon has fallen on hard times as of late as its camera sales have cratered, and now there’s a new indicator of how dire its financial situation is: the company is reportedly pulling the plug on making cameras in Japan after over 70 years of doing so.

To read the full article on Petapixel’s site, click here.

NVIDIA Uses AI to Slash Bandwidth on Video Calls

NVIDIA Research has invented a way to use AI to dramatically reduce video call bandwidth while simultaneously improving quality

What the researchers have achieved has remarkable results: by replacing the traditional h.264 video codec with a neural network, they have managed to reduce the required bandwidth for a video call by an order of magnitude. In one example, the required data rate fell from 97.28 KB/frame to a measly 0.1165 KB/frame – a reduction to 0.1% of required bandwidth.

To read the rest of this article on Petapixel, click this link.

 

 

 

Union Health Plan Dodges Film Workers’ Suit Over Virus Relief

Law360 (October 9, 2020, 5:22 PM EDT) — The Motion Picture Industry Health Plan’s board can’t be sued under ERISA for allegedly flouting its duties when it relaxed plan rules in response to COVID-19, a California federal judge has ruled, nixing a proposed class action filed by two cinematographers who still couldn’t qualify for benefits.

In an order entered Thursday, U.S. District Judge R. Gary Klausner granted the board of directors’ motion to dismiss Greg Endries and Dee Nichols’ Employee Retirement Income Security Act suit accusing board members of breaching their duty to treat all plan participants fairly.

Endries and Nichols, members of Local 600 of the International Cinematographers Guild, said in July that the board left them and others “out in the cold” in its attempts to address the problems COVID-19 caused for plan participants.

But Judge Klausner agreed with the board’s contention that the case, which alleged a fiduciary breach, should be tossed because plan administrators don’t act as fiduciaries when they amend health care plans.

Read the full article on the Law360 site by clicking here.

Russo Brothers Received Close to $50 Million From Saudi Bank

Anthony Russo and Joseph Russo photographed at the PMC Studio in Los Angeles for the Variety Playback Podcast.

The Russo brothers, directors of the all-time top grossing film “Avengers: Endgame,” quietly secured a roughly $50 million cash infusion for their production company AGBO from Saudi Arabia earlier this year, multiple sources tell Variety.

In a deal brokered and closed at the beginning of the pandemic, the Russos received the investment from an undisclosed Saudi bank in exchange for a minority stake in the brothers’ Los Angeles-based shop.

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