Feature filmmaker Cameron Crowe (e.g., Vanilla Sky, Almost Famous, Jerry Maguire) has wrapped a commercial for The Gap, produced by The Industry, a bicoastal house that specializes in securing select spot assignments for longform directors. The Industry is a sister shop to bicoastal Moxie Pictures….Matt Goodman, who directs ESPN2’s popular Tony Hawk series, and Dave England, one of the original creators of MTV’s Jackass, have come aboard production house Crova, Portland, Ore., and Los Angeles, for representation as spot directors….Creative editor David Mester has joined The Blue Rock Editing Company, New York. Mester comes over from Rhinoceros Editorial, New York. The audio division of Blue Rock, Blast Digital, New York, headed by sound designer/mixer Joe O’Connell, has added Chris Fina, formerly of National Sound, New York, as associate sound designer/mixer….Director Christopher Erskin has joined Los Angeles-based spot/music video production company Legacy Films…. Matt Silver, formerly an assistant editor at Go Robot!, New York, has relocated to the West Coast and become a staff editor at Rex Edit, Venice, Calif. He becomes the second cutter at Rex Edit, joining Bill Marmor….Kandoo Films, a Los Angeles-based production company specializing in creative advertising services and promotional services for the entertainment industry, has launched a music video division. The new entity has signed music clips vet Jim Yukich as its first director…Editor C. Scott Gorman has come aboard New York-headquartered Northern Lights Post. Gorman has been working as an editor and producer at MTV…Composer Matt Walker, former percussionist for bands The Smashing Pumpkins and Filter, has signed with Spank! Music and Sound Design, Chicago….Director Martin Shewchuck of Radke Films, Toronto, has returned to the agency side of the business, having been named executive VP/executive creative director at J. Walter Thompson, Toronto….Ayer is being absorbed by The Kaplan Thaler Group, New York. The two agencies share a parent com-pany, the Bcom3 Group….
Karla SofÃa Gascón Could Make Trans History For Role In “Emilia Pérez”
Karla SofÃa Gascón's performance in "Emilia Pérez" as a Mexican drug lord who undergoes gender affirmation surgery to become a woman has brought her global acclaim and set Gascón on a path that may make her the first openly transgender actor ever nominated for an Oscar. But on this morning, she's feeling contemplative. "I woke up with such a philosophical streak," Gascón says, smiling. "In life, everything can be good or bad. We are a mix of so many things. There are things that make you happy and instead they make you sad, or the other way around." The dichotomies of life are a fitting subject for Jacques Audiard's "Emilia Pérez," a film that puts just about every genre — musical, crime thriller, melodrama — into a grandiose mixer, and, by sheer nerve, manages to coalesce into one of the year's most memorable movie experiences. "Emilia Pérez," which began streaming Wednesday on Netflix, is widely expected to be a best picture nominee. At the center of the "Emilia Pérez" phenomenon – which began with a barn-storming premiere at the Cannes Film Festival — is Gascón who plays both the menacing cartel kingpin Manitas and the woman who emerges after Manitas fakes his own death, Emilia Pérez. Years later, Emilia contacts the lawyer who facilitated her transition (Zoe Saldaña) to her reunite with her wife (Selena Gomez) and their children. The wild swings of "Emilia Pérez" – a movie that has earned comparisons to both "Sicario" and "Mrs. Doubtfire" – wouldn't be possible without Gascón. In Cannes, she and her co-stars shared in the best actress prize, which Gascón accepted. "We've been insulted, denigrated, subjected to a lot of violence without even knowing why," Gascón said that evening. "I think this is award is so much more... Read More