![]() Paradigm Talent Agency announced that Babacar Diene has been hired as a content agent. Previously, he was VP Acquisitions & Apsara Distribution at Im Global and had roles at Icon Entertainment International. His executive producer credits at Voltage include Time Is Up, Archenemy, Safer at Home, Redemption Day, Follow Me and Drive Hard. During his tenure he co-produced titles including Ava, starring Jessica Chastain, Colin Farrell, John Malkovich, Common and Geena Davis Good Kids starring Nicholas Braun, Zoey Deutch and Julia Garner Fathers & Daughters, starring Russell Crowe, Amanda Seyfried and Aaron Paul and Pay the Ghost starring Nicolas Cage. Diene, based in Los Angeles, was most recently VP Acquisitions & Development at Voltage, the international finance, production and distribution company he joined in 2012. He will become a Content Agent at Paradigm, which also said today it has promoted four staffers to agents. ![]() Paradigm on Thursday said it has hired Babacar Diene, the veteran film financing, sales and production executive who had been a VP at Voltage Pictures. In conjunction with the documentary premiere. Executive producers are Floris Bauer, Barry Barclay, David Gale and Vinnie Malhotra. The film is produced by Brian Morrow and Jonathan Lynch for Shark Pig, Van Toffler for Gunpowder & Sky, and Scooter Weintraub. The Showtime premiere date was announced today by Vinnie Malhotra, Executive Vice President, Nonfiction Programming, Showtime Networks Inc. Sheryl is told through present-day interviews with Crow, behind-the-scenes verité on the road and in her studio, never before seen archival footage spanning 20 years of touring, and interviews with close colleagues Keith Richards, Laura Dern, Joe Walsh, Emmylou Harris, Brandi Carlile, and others. The documentary, directed by Amy Scott and charting what Showtime describes as Crow’s “hard-fought musical career battling sexism, depression, perfectionism, cancer, and the price of fame,” has its world premiere tonight at SXSW. I got to get a little outside of myself to write about that versus being stuck in my own head.Showtime’s Sheryl Crow music documentary Sheryl will premiere on the channel Friday, May 6, with a new trailer now available. Like in art class, when they said you can do whatever you want-some people struggled. “I always get a kick out of that,” he says. In that way, he could play freely and experiment without a certain familiar pressure. Rateliff says he enjoyed the process, especially because the song wasn’t for a personal band or solo project. He reached out to a singing group of three sisters he’d met when asked to perform at a Black Lives Matter rally in Englewood, Colorado, and he enlisted some of his band members in his group, The Night Sweats, for claps and other percussion. ![]() He started with guitar and then layered his voice, then added drums. So, the only thing to do then was to “chase down the song.” Rateliff experimented with some drum ideas and he and a studio crew methodically built the track. He showed the song to some trusted collaborators and they assured him he was on the right track. But the funny thing was I didn’t really know if it was any good.” “I started working on it immediately,” Rateliff says. ![]()
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