Global production studio Moving Picture Company (MPC) has added award-winning creative director Matt Pascuzzi to its executive leadership team.
Previously at Framestore, Pascuzzi joins MPC’s New York studio, headed by managing director Angela Lupo, to further cement and develop the creative studio’s visual effects offering to the region’s top creative agencies and brands. In the new role, he’ll play a key part in the creative executive leadership team at MPC New York, consisting of Alvin Cruz, Sina Taherkhani, and Tom McCullough. Pascuzzi will focus on growing and mentoring all VFX departments within the company as well as driving new creative partnerships and business opportunities.
With an eye to the future of branded content development, Pascuzzi will focus on the expansion of the company into real-time and virtual production technologies. He will work closely with brand and agency clients, as well as MPC’s roster of directors to define the best applications of these new technologies to create next-generation production and advertising opportunities.
In his nine-year tenure at Framestore, Pascuzzi was a leading creative on work for Samsung, Oreo and Sam Adams, and cultivated creative relationships with agencies including Arts & Sciences, Goodby Silverstein & Partners and The Martin Agency.
Carrie Coon Relishes Being Part Of An Ensemble–From “The Gilded Age” To “His Three Daughters”
It can be hard to catch Carrie Coon on her own.
She is far more likely to be found in the thick of an ensemble. That could be on TV, in "The Gilded Age," for which she was just Emmy nominated, or in the upcoming season of "The White Lotus," which she recently shot in Thailand. Or it could be in films, most relevantly, Azazel Jacobs' new drama, "His Three Daughters," in which Coon stars alongside Natasha Lyonne and Elizabeth Olsen as sisters caring for their dying father.
But on a recent, bright late-summer morning, Coon is sitting on a bench in the bucolic northeast Westchester town of Pound Ridge. A few years back, she and her husband, the playwright Tracy Letts, moved near here with their two young children, drawn by the long rows of stone walls and a particularly good BLT from a nearby cafe that Letts, after biting into, declared must be within 15 miles of where they lived.
In a few days, they would both fly to Los Angeles for the Emmys (Letts was nominated for his performance in "Winning Time" ). But Coon, 43, was then largely enmeshed in the day-to-day life of raising a family, along with their nightly movie viewings, which Letts pulls from his extensive DVD collection. The previous night's choice: "Once Around," with Holly Hunter and Richard Dreyfus.
Coon met Letts during her breakthrough performance in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe?" on Broadway in 2012. She played the heavy-drinking housewife Honey. It was the first role that Coon read and knew, viscerally, she had to play. Immediately after saying this, Coon sighs.
"It sounds like something some diva would say in a movie from the '50s," Coon says. "I just walked around in my apartment in my slip and I had pearls and a little brandy. I made a grocery list and I just did... Read More