Creative postproduction boutique Uppercut has brought Mila Davis aboard as executive producer. Davis joins the expanding team in Los Angeles, where the company opened an office last year.
Davis began her entertainment career at TBWAChiatDay, working her way up from an entry-level position to become a producer. She left Chiat to go work on Lexus at Team One Advertising. Shortly after, she was given the opportunity to return to Chiat to work on PlayStation and Apple. She worked there for many years as an executive producer on Pepsi, adidas, and other brands.
Davis was always interested in the postproduction process, which led her to become an executive producer/managing director at Stitch Editing. She’s collaborated with clients such as Amazon, EA, Activision, Facebook, Google, Cuervo, Honda, Hyundai, Nike, Microsoft, and Samsung. She also enjoys working on long-form documentary projects.
Having spent much of her childhood in Los Angeles, Davis is enthusiastic about the opportunity to further grow Uppercut’s new studio home in Culver City. In her role, she will guide and support Uppercut’s roster of editors, clients, and collaborators.
Of joining Uppercut, Davis says, “Uppercut and (its owner/editor) Micah Scarpelli are different from most of the post houses. I love that all the offices support one another as one company. I look forward to building the Los Angeles office and strengthening the Uppercut brand.”
Uppercut launched in New York City in 2015 and has continued to grow its boutique postproduction capabilities, building out a roster of diverse creative talent, expanding its offerings into VFX, and launching its partner music company, Racket Club.
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