Biscuit Filmworks has added director Bianca Poletti to both its U.S. and U.K. rosters. Poletti is a distinctive storyteller crafting deeply lived-in worlds across film, commercials, music videos, and photography.
“Bianca has a fully-formed artistic voice that’s at once youthful and wise,” said Shawn Lacy, partner and managing director at Biscuit Filmworks. “Her storytelling instincts are excellent, as is her attention to detail in every department whether it’s production design or casting. We’re so pleased to have her join the Biscuit roster and see her commercial career continue to climb.”
Prior to joining Biscuit, Poletti was with Epoch Films for U.S. representation. She is an alum of SHOOT’s 2021 New Directors Showcase.
Born in California to Argentinian parents, Poletti was raised by her mother and graduated from the University of Southern California with a degree in film studies before embarking on her directing career. She has helmed spots for Planned Parenthood, Sephora, Facebook, Ford, and most recently, a Coca-Cola spot for the FIFA Women’s World Cup where she worked with Buenos Aires-based Mercado McCann and an Argentinian cast. Her numerous short films include Radical Honesty, which premiered at SXSW 2022 and earned a Vimeo Staff Pick, Gold at Ciclope, and Silver at the Young Director Awards; and I Am Whole, which was recently featured at the Hammer Museum’s FLUX Screening Series.
Poletti shared, “I’m thrilled to join Biscuit and to be part of a team that prioritizes artistry and craft. It’s clear that Biscuit values the distinct voices of each of its directors, and finds jobs to showcase that work in the best way. Also, Biscuit deeply cares about creating beautiful work and pushing the envelope in terms of craft with everything they do. I’m excited to have opportunities for bigger storytelling and bigger world-building moving forward.”
James Earl Jones, Lauded Actor and Voice of Darth Vader, Dies At 93
James Earl Jones, who overcame racial prejudice and a severe stutter to become a celebrated icon of stage and screen — eventually lending his deep, commanding voice to CNN, "The Lion King" and Darth Vader — has died. He was 93.
His agent, Barry McPherson, confirmed Jones died Monday morning at home in New York's Hudson Valley region. The cause was not immediately clear.
The pioneering Jones, who was one of the first African American actors in a continuing role on a daytime drama and worked deep into his 80s, won two Emmys, a Golden Globe, two Tony Awards, a Grammy, the National Medal of Arts, the Kennedy Center Honors and was given an honorary Oscar and a special Tony for lifetime achievement. In 2022, a Broadway theater was renamed in his honor.
He cut an elegant figure late in life, with a wry sense of humor and a ferocious work habit. In 2015, he arrived at rehearsals for a Broadway run of "The Gin Game" having already memorized the play and with notebooks filled with comments from the creative team. He said he was always in service of the work.
"The need to storytell has always been with us," he told The Associated Press then. "I think it first happened around campfires when the man came home and told his family he got the bear, the bear didn't get him."
Jones created such memorable film roles as the reclusive writer coaxed back into the spotlight in "Field of Dreams," the boxer Jack Johnson in the stage and screen hit "The Great White Hope," the writer Alex Haley in "Roots: The Next Generation" and a South African minister in "Cry, the Beloved Country."
He was also a sought-after voice actor, expressing the villainy of Darth Vader ("No, I am your father," commonly misremembered as "Luke, I am your father"), as... Read More