You're invited: Summer parties + premieres
Plus: Box-Office Rebound, Gotham Programming Announced; Summer Award Winners
Happy Thursday, friends.
It’s been a bustling week here at Portrait HQ.
Check out the new Private Portrait Groups on the app for Directors, Producers, Cinematographers, Editors, and Writers. Don’t see your role represented yet? We’ll be launching more groups over the coming weeks.
Vote for our SXSW Panels: The New 51%: Building Careers in Entertainment and Beyond and Entertainment: The Business of Constant Change.
In NYC? Join us at our Rooftop Summer Soiree with Arri next Thursday, August 15th.
Let’s dive in.
Roll of Honor
Premieres, Awards, and More. Say hello to featured members on the app.
What to Watch this Weekend
Relationship Dramas
Good One. “Lily Collias is a luminous discovery in [writer-director India Donaldson’s] affecting micro-portrait of late-adolescence” (THR). Neil Champagne, EP; Taylor Rowley, Music Supervisor; Sabina Friedman-Seitz, Associate Producer; Olivia Mastrangelo, Co-Producer, Line Producer; Nell Simon, Costume Designer. In Theaters.
It Ends With Us. “Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni’s solid Colleen Hoover drama … manages to sensitively handle its delicate subject matter” (IndieWire). JoJo Whilden, Still Photographer; Armon Mahdavi, Art Dept. Asst.; Wilbur DiTullio, First Asst. Editor; Robert Bevis, Addl. Rigging Electrician. In Theaters.
Historical Crises of Conscience
Sugarcane. “Co-directors Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie deliver a quietly devastating account of unpunished crimes committed by representatives of the Catholic Church” (Variety). Emily Kassie, Director, Producer; Elliott Whitton, EP; Christopher Lamarca, DP; Maida Lynn, Kellen Quinn, Producers; Katrina Taylor, Consulting Editor; Lauren Haber, Co-EP. In Theaters.
Honorable Mr. Morgenthau. “The story of Franklin Roosevelt’s only Jewish cabinet member… and his crisis of conscience.. It’s a story about bigotry and deep frictions over immigration.” (ACMP). Hilan Warshaw, Director, Producer. In Theaters.
One Life. Starring Anthony Hopkins, “the film does justice to this overwhelmingly moving event in British public life in a quietly affecting drama” (Guardian). Andre Kelman, ADR mixer. Paramount+.
Demented Tales and Bands of Misfits
Borderlands. Randy Pitchford, the CEO behind the video game, “is happy there’s finally a version of Borderlands his mom can get into” (Polygon). Carissa Clark, Account Executive; Andrea Chlebak, Supervising Colorist; Rudy Pesci, Color Assist. In Theaters Friday.
Cuckoo. “A bewildering and gripping saga about reproduction, identity, and family that, at its finest, taps into a legitimately demented vein” (Daily Beast). Paul Faltz, DP; Tamsyn Manson, Casting; Jason Wald, EP. In Theaters.
Coup! “In thrall to the pleasurably low-stakes sport of watching one scoundrel outwit another.” (Variety). Anne Hollister, Associate Producer; Andrew Berger, Sound Effects Editor; Gabriel Rhodes, Addl. Editor. In Theaters.
What We’re Reading
No need to survive until ’25? “Despite a rough first quarter, ’24 is shaping up to be an inflection year, with an encouraging fourth quarter upon us".
Every production could learn from this new set of community guidelines.
More than one-quarter of Netflix subscribers say they don’t use it.
On the Festival and Awards Circuit
Meryl Streep’s “The Writers Lab” Unveils 10th Annual List of Women and Non-Binary Screenwriters Over 40. Lisa Cortés, Jamie Zelermyer.
Princess Grace Awards Announces 18 Winners. Congratulations to selected Portrait members.
Black Star Film Festival announces winners. Congrats to Portrait awardees.
Locarno Film Festival and HollyShorts Film Festival kick off this week. Click through to see Portrait films and members in attendance.
Acquisition + Market News
Monument Releasing acquires Rule of Two Walls. David Gutnik, Director, Writer; Stacey Reiss, Sam Bisbee, Producers; Emily McCann Lesser, Co-Producer; Damien Vandercruyssen, Colorist; Liz Niles, EP: Picture Post; Rochelle Brown, Account Executive.
Rachel Maddow Banner’s First Doc Feature From Russia With Lev to Debut at ‘MSNBC Live: Democracy 2024’. Amanda Spain, EP.
Window of Opportunity 🔍
Check out the Discover Tab on Portrait for grants, programs, festivals, and jobs.
Closing Soon: August Deadlines
Have an opportunity to share? Post it on the app or fill out our form.
Inside Out ReFocus Fund (8/9 deadline)
Native American Unscripted Workshop (8/9 deadline)
NALIP WOC Incubator (8/11 deadline)
CAPE Leaders Fellowship (8/12 deadline)
Women in Animation Mentorship Circles (8/13 deadline)
NEH Media Projects Program (8/14 deadline)
Black Girl Writes (8/15 deadline)
Propelle Accelerator (8/16 deadline)
Feature Campus: Stowe Story Labs (8/16 deadline)
LEF Early Development Fund (8/16 deadline)
Southern Doc Fund Production Grant (8/16 deadline)
The Writers Room: Stowe Story Labs (8/16 deadline)
Tribe Mentoring (8/19 deadline)
Jobs/Gigs Roundup
Have a job to share? Share it on the app or fill out our form.
Head of Video, Times10
Head of Studio Operations, Peachy Studio.
Director of Animation, Black Tie Records Inc.
VP - Acquisitions and Productions, AMC Networks Inc.
VP, Physical Production, 20th Century Studios
Director of Physical Production (Remote), Legacy Pictures.
Vice President, Current Unscripted Series, Endemol Shine North America.
Vice President, Unscripted Development and Current Programming - True Crime & Lifestyle, NBCUniversal.
Supervising Producer - Series, Sony Pictures Animation
Sr. Manager, Theatrical Sales, Disney.
Specialist, Global Streaming Promotions, Warner Bros. Discovery.
News Video Editor / Photographer, Hearst.
Camera/Edit Supervisor, Paramount.
End Credits: Portrait Post of the Week
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