Emerald Pictures has added director Kay Lindhout to its roster. Emerald will handle Lindhout for commercials and branded content, the first U.S. representation for the director.
With the ability to pull strong natural performances from talent, Lindhout followed his heart into filmmaking after receiving an education in sociology. With this unique background, Lindhout is observational in his approach, infusing cinematic visuals with lived realism. His films take a personal approach to life and its wonders, providing his audience with a tactile connection to each work’s characters and stories. He is well known for an ability to work with talent, including getting deeply genuine performances when working with young children.
Commercially, he has worked with brands such as KLM, Samsung, Coca-Cola, and KPN. His work has also been widely seen throughout the arts and culture world in Amsterdam. Last year, he directed “First Time” for the 2019 Museumnacht (Museum Night) in Amsterdam. With stunning visuals and hand-drawn animations by Midhat Avdagic and music by Raven Artson, the film captured the feeling of experiencing art for the first time, and how doing so provides an opportunity to tap into an unknown world. The film helped encourage a younger audience to visit the museums and expand their presence in the art scene. Lindhout also directed a film for the David Hockney exhibition at the Van Gogh Museum, on display in 2019.
Mara Milićević, Emerald founding partner, said, “Kay has a unique skill of capturing intimate and real moments with a fresh eye and a human touch. There is such honesty and beauty in his film…so natural yet so cinematic.”
Lindhout added, “Mara and John (Duffin, Emerald’s founding partner) are really cool and I’m so happy to be working with them. It’s exciting to expand my horizon into the US and I’m looking forward to collaborating with all of these new people. I can’t wait to see what we make together. ”
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