The Directors Network (TDN), the talent agency for commercial freelance directors, directors of photography, and director/cinematographers, has signed director/DP Jasmin Kuhn and welcomed back director Liz Hinlein. Kuhn brings to the TDN roster a cutting-edge, design-focused style and a portfolio that boasts clients from Head + Shoulders and L’Oreal to Samsung to P+G. Since graduating from the Art Center College of Design, Kuhn has won numerous awards for her work as a director and cinematographer both domestically and internationally. She is currently preparing her feature film debut. Meanwhile returning to TDN is Hinlein, an award-winning director whose work spans advertising, features and VR. Hinlein has spearheaded national and international campaigns for Dove, Oral B, and MAC Cosmetics, among many others. Both Kuhn and Hinlein are based in Los Angeles….
Dattner Dispoto and Associates (DDA) has signed DP Bing Sokolsky, ASC for representation and booked for him work on season 5 of the TV series Fear The Walking Dead…DDA has also booked DP Giles Nuttgens on the feature film Greed, DP Paul Cameron, ASC on the feature 17 Bridges, DP Frankie Demarco on the TV series The Enemy Within, DP Xavier Grobet, ASC on the Netflix series Unbelievable, DP Amy Vincent, ASC on season 3 of the TV series Legion, costume designer Christopher Lawrence on the feature Wander Darkly, and production designer Deana Sidney on the TV series The Food That Built America….
Cast & Crew’s CAPS Payroll has promoted Todd Dyer to VP, sales specializing in the handling of venues, music tours and live events clients. Cast & Crew is a provider of technology-enabled payroll and human resources, accounting and financial management, and workflow and productivity solutions to the entertainment industry….
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