Director Adria Petty has joined Wondros, the L.A.-based strategic consultancy and media production company founded by director Jesse Dylan. Wondros will handle her in the U.S for commercials, music videos and branded content/entertainment.
Petty is well known for her spotmaking (spanning such brands as Lancôme, Alexander McQueen, Target, Converse, Hershey’s, McDonald’s) and music videos (for more than 50 artists including Beyoncé, Coldplay, Rihanna and Regina Spektor), Petty’s clips have also garnered numerous MTV Music Video Award nominations, and her “Countdown” for Beyoncé won the MTV Moonman for best editing in 2012. Prior to coming aboard Wondros, Petty had been repped by production house m ss ng p eces in the U.S. market.
Anne-Marie Mackay, Wondros’ chief creative officer, said of Petty, “Her work in beauty and fashion delves deeply into a celebration on screen; she has a unique way of melding music, design and the arts with an eye towards classic cinema.”
Petty is a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College in New York and she also attended The Tisch School of the Arts as a graduate student. She cut her teeth in New York film production with noted directors Jonathan Demme and Penny Marshall. Petty directed her first feature film, Paris, Not France–the controversial documentary about Paris Hilton and the culture of celebrity–which debuted at the 2008 Toronto Film Festival. Petty’s second feature, produced in 2010, was a concert film titled Regina Spektor: Live in London.
“Both Jesse and Anne-Marie have been friends and mentors of mine for many years,” said Petty. “Joining Wondros is like a homecoming; I know I will have the support behind me to help tell unique narratives in the traditional and digital forms of integrated content and storytelling.”
Lawsuit Alleges That TikTok Was Aware Of Risks Its Platform Posed To Kids and Teens
TikTok was aware that its design features are detrimental to its young users and that publicly touted tools aimed at limiting kids' time on the site were largely ineffective, according to internal documents and communications exposed in a lawsuit filed by the state of Kentucky.
The details are among redacted portions of Kentucky's lawsuit that contains the internal communications and documents unearthed during a more than two year investigation into the company by various states across the country.
Kentucky's lawsuit was filed this week, alongside separate complaints brought forth by attorneys general in a dozen states as well as the District of Columbia. TikTok is also facing another lawsuit from the Department of Justice and is itself suing the Justice Department over a federal law that could ban it in the U.S. by mid-January.
The redacted information — which was inadvertently revealed by Kentucky's attorney general's office and first reported by Kentucky Public Radio — touches on a range of topics, most importantly the extent to which TikTok knew how much time young users were spending on the platform and how sincere it was when rolling out tools aimed at curbing excessive use.
Beyond TikTok use among minors, the complaint alleges the short-form video sharing app has prioritized "beautiful people" on its platform and has noted internally that some of the content-moderation metrics it has publicized are "largely misleading."
The unredacted complaint, which was seen by The Associated Press, was sealed by a Kentucky state judge on Wednesday after state officials filed an emergency motion to seal it.
When reached for comment, TikTok spokesperson Alex Haurek said: "It is highly irresponsible of the Associated Press to... Read More