Yesterday on the blog we announced the Fellows participating in the 2024 Film Independent Episodic Lab. Today, we’re drawing your attention to the fact that applications for next year’s cohort are currently open, with the regular deadline of February 26.
We asked 2020 Episodic Lab Fellow Katherine Ruppe to share her experience in the Lab developing her Sloan-supported series project Liftoff, about the lives and careers of NASA’s first class of female astronauts. Follow Katherine online at @RuppeVerse on Instagram and X.
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It’s the grand finale of our 2020 Film Independent Episodic Lab. I’m facing a zoom screen of half a dozen Netflix executives, about to pitch Liftoff, my TV project centered around America’s first six female astronauts as they break through the brotherhood of spaceflight. My stomach has so many butterflies it’s ready to rocket into orbit. I take in the encouraging faces of the other...
We asked 2020 Episodic Lab Fellow Katherine Ruppe to share her experience in the Lab developing her Sloan-supported series project Liftoff, about the lives and careers of NASA’s first class of female astronauts. Follow Katherine online at @RuppeVerse on Instagram and X.
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It’s the grand finale of our 2020 Film Independent Episodic Lab. I’m facing a zoom screen of half a dozen Netflix executives, about to pitch Liftoff, my TV project centered around America’s first six female astronauts as they break through the brotherhood of spaceflight. My stomach has so many butterflies it’s ready to rocket into orbit. I take in the encouraging faces of the other...
- 2/16/2024
- by Katherine Ruppe
- Film Independent News & More
Netflix has laid off an additional 300 employees.
The news Thursday comes after Deadline revealed in May that redundancies were underway, with an initial 150 positions eliminated as a result of the slowdown in the company’s revenue growth.
“Today we sadly let go of around 300 employees,” a Netflix spokeswoman told Deadline. “While we continue to invest significantly in the business, we made these adjustments so that our costs are growing in line with our slower revenue growth. We are so grateful for everything they have done for Netflix and are working hard to support them through this difficult transition.”
We’re hearing that the cuts are impacting a number of different teams, mostly in the U.S. but also including Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East and Africa and Latin America including the company’s legal and product divisions.
Netflix has a global workforce of around 11,000.
The latest layoffs come after Netflix...
The news Thursday comes after Deadline revealed in May that redundancies were underway, with an initial 150 positions eliminated as a result of the slowdown in the company’s revenue growth.
“Today we sadly let go of around 300 employees,” a Netflix spokeswoman told Deadline. “While we continue to invest significantly in the business, we made these adjustments so that our costs are growing in line with our slower revenue growth. We are so grateful for everything they have done for Netflix and are working hard to support them through this difficult transition.”
We’re hearing that the cuts are impacting a number of different teams, mostly in the U.S. but also including Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East and Africa and Latin America including the company’s legal and product divisions.
Netflix has a global workforce of around 11,000.
The latest layoffs come after Netflix...
- 6/23/2022
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Layoffs are underway at Netflix today. About 150 positions out of the streamer’s workforce of 11,000 are being eliminated amid a slowdown in the company’s revenue growth.
They are largely based in the U.S., with a significant portion in creative, across both film and TV, sources said. A number of those laid off are in the executive ranks, including in original content, I hear, with a couple of director-level original series execs rumored to be leaving. There is also rampant rumor that the indie film division will suffer heavy casualties but sources internally say that is not the case.
“As we explained on earnings, our slowing revenue growth means we are also having to slow our cost growth as a company. So sadly, we are letting around 150 employees go today, mostly US-based,” a Netflix spokesperson said in a statement to Deadline. “These changes are primarily driven by business needs rather than individual performance,...
They are largely based in the U.S., with a significant portion in creative, across both film and TV, sources said. A number of those laid off are in the executive ranks, including in original content, I hear, with a couple of director-level original series execs rumored to be leaving. There is also rampant rumor that the indie film division will suffer heavy casualties but sources internally say that is not the case.
“As we explained on earnings, our slowing revenue growth means we are also having to slow our cost growth as a company. So sadly, we are letting around 150 employees go today, mostly US-based,” a Netflix spokesperson said in a statement to Deadline. “These changes are primarily driven by business needs rather than individual performance,...
- 5/17/2022
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Nathan Kitada & Aaron T. Umetani--the upstart filmmakers who comprise the Country Club--have won a loyal following with their gritty "Brothers Mario" mini-movies on YouTube. The hilarious clips send up of the adventures of Mario, Luigi, Donkey Kong and other iconic Nintendo characters by walking them through every tough-guy/mafiaoso/heist flick cliché imaginable. They're also fortified by jokes that show true knowledge and love of the "Super Mario" games.
Their latest work represents a shift in approach, however. "Repeat" does away with the machinima animation and enlists live actors for a vignette about a dude trying to save a princess. The sound effects come off a bit a bit tinny and the camera angles could use some pop but it's not a bad first live-action effort for the Country Club guys.
You can see hints of the "Mario" games' acrobatics, side-scrolling beat-em-ups like "River City Ransom" and and the pop...
Their latest work represents a shift in approach, however. "Repeat" does away with the machinima animation and enlists live actors for a vignette about a dude trying to save a princess. The sound effects come off a bit a bit tinny and the camera angles could use some pop but it's not a bad first live-action effort for the Country Club guys.
You can see hints of the "Mario" games' acrobatics, side-scrolling beat-em-ups like "River City Ransom" and and the pop...
- 6/2/2011
- by Evan Narcisse
- ifc.com
It's such a simple idea. Nintendo's Mario Brothers, Mario and Luigi, are Italian. They fight to save Peach from a formidable organized mob. Put two and two together and you have The Brothers Mario, a 4 plus minute trailer that takes the familiar Super Mario Bros. story and reimagines it through the violence, graphics and game play of Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto series. Directed by The Country Club [1], Nathan Kitada and Aaron T. Umetani, not only does this video include all of your favorite Mario references - coins, mushrooms, one-ups, etc. - but even throws in references to several famous action and gangster movies. We'll let you discover those for yourself. You've got to see this video after the jump. Thanks to The Game Station [2] for the exclusive and Entertainment Weekly [3] for the heads up. What's your favorite part of this video? What are some of the references you caught? [1] http://www.
- 12/15/2010
- by Germain Lussier
- Slash Film
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