Director Kathi Prosser, who had been handled in the Southern Hemisphere by The Sweet Shop, has gone global with that production company except for Canada where she continues to be repped by Partners.
Prosser, who shifted her U.S. representation from Moxie Pictures to The Sweet Shop, explained, “With board flow now from agencies all over the world, it feels great to be managed by one boutique style company, a kind of macro micro approach to today’s global market.”
Prosser has directed work for assorted clients, including Guinness, Molson, Lux, Dove, Tresemme, Apple, AT&T and JCPenney. A graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design, she got her start in graphic design creating award winning album art for companies like BMG, Sony Music, EMI, and Columbia. This recognition allowed her to quickly move into motion graphics work where she created and designed opening title segments for CBC, CTV, and UPN. From there, Prosser took a leap into the director’s chair and created the Grammy nominated “Mega Mix” videos for Moby’s album, “Play”.
For four years, Kathi ran the multimedia firm The Wing Group. While there, she made several projects including the short films Death’s Fable, Fly or Fall, and the globally toured Horses Never Lie which won an American Choreography Award for Outstanding Achievement. Her television spots included a pair of Bessie Award winning, Partners-produced PSAs: The Looking Glass Foundation’s “Scales,” which cast a sobering light on eating disorders, for DDB Vancouver, B.C.; and SickKids’ (The Hospital for Sick Children) “You Got It” from JWT Toronto. Both spots additionally earned nods from Cannes and D&AD.
“Kathi brings a power to her work that is truly unique and expresses itself through all the elements of her craft,” said Paul Prince, The Sweet Shop’s CEO and founding partner. “It’s a privilege to be a part of this passion. I’ve been honored to be on Kathi’s management team for over ten years and am very pleased that this now continues globally.”
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