Director Eli Green has joined Raucous Content for commercial and branded content representation in North America. Already at his new roost, Green has wrapped production on Southwest Airlines for GSD&M and Colgate out of Y&R. Among his many prior credits are Constellation Brands/Tom Gore Vineyards for M/H VCCP, San Francisco, and a Race Trac campaign for R/GA, Austin.
Green has been capturing larger-than-life characters since his formative years shooting award-winning portraits in rural Texas. What emerged was a distinctive passion for the language of ordinary heroes. It was natural, then, that he soon turned to filmmaking. Every performance, in Green’s eyes, is the opportunity to build upon that first pivotal image with a confluence of the real world and performance. Green uses intimate frames to highlight his cast, often likening it to the “portrait of a person.” He explained, “Directing, for me, is a record of bold characters who might be overlooked. If I can take an unexpected individual and tell their story, I walk away satisfied, feeling like I’ve found some kind of connective tissue for the audience.”
Green said he was drawn to Raucous by owners/EPs Phyllis Koenig and Steve Wi. The latter assessed, “Eli has a great eye. He’s an infectious talent who lets actors settle into their roles and be themselves.”
Prior to joining Raucous, Green was handled by production house A Common Thread. He now joins a Raucous directorial roster which includes Jon Barber, Kat Coiro, Keith Ehrlich, Luis Gerard, Adam Gunser, Chris Hooper, Paul Iannacchino, Plummer/Strauss, Vance Malone, Rob McElhenney, Matt Rainwaters, Matt Shakman, Alex Stapleton, and Daniel Strange.
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