Cut+Run has promoted sr. producer Amburr Farls to head of production for the L.A., San Francisco and Austin offices.
“Since joining us Amburr has become an integral asset to the Cut+Run family,” said U.S. managing director Michelle Eskin. “She has a wide breadth of production experience gathered during her tenure in the industry. Our Cut+Run culture is an important part of our overall brand philosophy and success. Amburr enhances this with a wealth of ideas and dynamic energy each day. Additionally, Amburr will oversee our production practices and team in an effort to hone continuity and efficiency.”
Since joining Cut+Run in 2013, Farls has produced projects for BK Subservient Chicken Returns, Pepsi (World Cup), Turbo Tax (Super Bowl), and Miller Lite. She was previously sr. producer at Arcade Edit and at Beast. She also enjoyed producer tenures at both Filmcore and Trailer Park.
“My first love is producing,” said Farls, who will continue to produce projects in addition to serving in the head of production role,
Review: Director Morgan Neville’s “Piece by Piece”
A movie documentary that uses only Lego pieces might seem an unconventional choice. When that documentary is about renowned musician-producer Pharrell Williams, it's actually sort of on-brand.
"Piece by Piece" is a bright, clever song-filled biopic that pretends it's a behind-the-scenes documentary using small plastic bricks, angles and curves to celebrate an artist known for his quirky soul. It is deep and surreal and often adorable. Is it high concept or low? Like Williams, it's a bit of both.
Director Morgan Neville — who has gotten more and more experimental exploring other celebrity lives like Fred Rogers in "Won't You Be My Neighbor?,""Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain" and "Steve! (Martin): A Documentary in Two Pieces" — this time uses real interviews but masks them under little Lego figurines with animated faces. Call this one a documentary in a million pieces.
The filmmakers try to explain their device — "What if nothing is real? What if life is like a Lego set?" Williams says at the beginning — but it's very tenuous. Just submit and enjoy the ride of a poor kid from Virginia Beach, Virginia, who rose to dominate music and become a creative director at Louis Vuitton.
Williams, by his own admission, is a little detached, a little odd. Music triggers colors in his brain — he has synesthesia, beautifully portrayed here — and it's his forward-looking musical brain that will make him a star, first as part of the producing team The Neptunes and then as an in-demand solo producer and songwriter.
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