Director Zoe Cassavetes has joined the roster of production house Little Minx for commercial representation. Her work spans features, shorts, music videos, TV and advertising. Cassavetes was previously repped by RSA for spots.
Beginning her career in TV, Cassavetes collaborated with Sofia Coppola to create and host the Comedy Central sketch show Hi-Octane. Cassavetes then went on to host MTV’s House of Style, a role that evolved into a longtime career in fashion shooting with designers and brands like Louis Vuitton, Chaumet, Juicy Couture, Old Navy, LaMarthe, Martel, and Petit Bateau.
Turning her sights to film, Cassavetes directed the short Men Make Women Crazy Theory which opened to broad acclaim at its Sundance premiere. Her debut feature, Broken English starring Parker Posey, premiered at Sundance in 2007 and was nominated for Best First Screenplay and Best Female Lead at the Spirit Awards. While in Paris, Cassavetes expanded her portfolio to include print, producing work for The New York Times, Elle, Dom Perignon, Stiletto, Italian Glamour, Air France Madame, and Liberation.
“Zoe is broadly experienced and exceptionally skilled,” lauds Little Minx president Rhea Scott. “She has a finely tuned artistic and intellectual curiosity that drives her to seek out new styles and master new techniques.”
Cassavetes just finished production on her highly anticipated 2015 feature film Day Out of Days. She is the latest filmmaker to join Little Minx in recent months, following such directors as Caleb Slain, Los Perez and Luca Guadagnino.
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