Cutwater has hired four staffers, fortifying its creative and production departments. Joining the San Francisco-based indie agency are Adora Wilson-Eye as associate producer, Mitchell Hunter as editor; Tufan Guzeloglu as sr. art director, and Silky Szeto as art director.
Wilson-Eye hails from the East Coast by way of Chicago, and is a recent transplant to the Bay Area. She spent the last four years helping to build up a brand new, diversity-focused commercial production company called Quriosity Productions. Throughout her career she has worked with brands including McDonald’s, Walgreens, Mondelez and Off!/Raid.
Most recently Hunter was a freelance editor, videographer and motion graphic designer, working with brands including HP, Visa and Seed Matters. Earlier in his career he was a video editor at gyro San Francisco.
Before joining Cutwater Guzeloglu worked at DDB San Francisco for several years as an art director. Throughout his career he’s worked on brands including Brita, Clorox, PG&E and Dial.
Szeto was previously an art director and designer at Eleven working on clients including Apple, Virgin America, Oakley, ARIA Resort & Casino and Dignity Health. Prior to that he was a brand ddentity and Web designer at Schaer Design.
Review: Writer-Director Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substance”
In its first two hours, "The Substance" is a well-made, entertaining movie. Writer-director Coralie Fargeat treats audiences to a heavy dose of biting social commentary on ageism and sexism in Hollywood, with a spoonful of sugar- and sparkle-doused body horror.
But the film's deliciously unhinged, blood-soaked and inevitably polarizing third act is what makes it unforgettable.
What begins as a dread-inducing but still relatively palatable sci-fi flick spirals deeper into absurdism and violence, eventually erupting — quite literally — into a full-blown monster movie. Let the viewer decide who the monster is.
Fargeat — who won best screenplay at this year's Cannes Film Festival — has been vocal about her reverence for "The Fly" director David Cronenberg, and fans of the godfather of body horror will see his unmistakable influence. But "The Substance" is also wholly unique and benefits from Fargeat's perspective, which, according to the French filmmaker, has involved extensive grappling with her own relationship to her body and society's scrutiny.
"The Substance" tells the story of Elisabeth Sparkle, a famed aerobics instructor with a televised show, played by a powerfully vulnerable Demi Moore. Sparkle is fired on her 50th birthday by a ruthless executive — a perfectly cast Dennis Quaid, who nails sleazy and gross.
Feeling rejected by a town that once loved her and despairing over her bygone star power, Sparkle learns from a handsome young nurse about a black-market drug that promises to create a "younger, more beautiful, more perfect" version of its user. Though she initially tosses the phone number in the trash, she soon fishes it out in a desperate panic and places an order.
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