Honorees have been announced for the Tribeca Film Festival's Disruptive Innovation Awards, which will honor innovative pioneers and game-changers across various disciplines and domains. Performance art visionary Twyla Tharp will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award for her approach to choreography; the city of Manchester will receive the Inaugural Manchester Prize for Urban Innovation; with additional award winners including Korean YouTube sensation Psy, Afron, Jack Andraka, TV-radio personality Glenn Beck, Beau Lotto, Norma Kamali, Kenzo Digital, Ge Focus Forward, Morgan Spurlock, Aaron Peckham and Elise Andrews. The awards will be handed out at the Nyu Stern School of Business on April 26. The Tribeca fest runs April 17-28. ...
- 4/2/2013
- by Beth Hanna
- Thompson on Hollywood
Exclusive: New media artist and director Kenzo Digital has signed with United Talent Agency. The former Wieden & Kennedy creative director will be represented by the agency in film and television. Known for his elaborate and stylized multi-media productions, Digital has worked with the likes of Nike, Kanye West, and most noticeably Beyoncé for both her performance at last year’s Billboard Music Awards and last week’s United Nation’s World Humanitarian Day. Digital’s sample generated coming of age film City Of God’s Son, which included scenes from classic gangster movies and hip-hop videos of the 1990s and appearances by Samuel L. Jackson, Al Pacino and Jay-z among others, was an online viral hit back in 2010. His documentary Jamel Shabazz: Street Photographer chronicled the classic hop-hop snapper. Currently the video director at artist Nam June Paik’s studio, Digital’s work has appeared at the Tribeca Film Festival,...
- 8/28/2012
- by DOMINIC PATTEN
- Deadline TV
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