Zulu Alpha Kilo, the Toronto-based ad agency, has just brought in Red Bull Media House executive producer, Cary Smith, as director of content for its content studio, Zulubot. Smith spent the last four years with Red Bull where he oversaw all moving image content in Canada, including sports, culture, and live events. Prior to working at Red Bull Media House, he was EP and head of development at Bell Media, overseeing production for multiple specialty channels including Much Music and Space.
Zulubot was launched in 2014 to enable Zulu to create, produce, and release content that capitalizes on the opportunities today’s digital/social world demands from modern brands. The studio has grown to include seven edit suites and a state-of-the-art audio recording studio. Over the past three years, Zulubot has produced hundreds of pieces of short and long format digital content for social platforms, broadcast films and documentaries including 2017’s online doc-series Common Ground for Harley-Davidson. The content series celebrated 100 years of the Harley-Davidson brand in Canada and gathered mainstream media interest, culminating in Discovery Canada showcasing Common Ground in a one-hour show during primetime.
“Cary brings a wealth of experience and a forward-thinking approach to what is already a strong content production team here,” said Zak Mroueh, Zulu Alpha Kilo’s founder and CCO/CEO. “He’s creative, collaborative and his experience with nimble content production as well as large scale production will make us a better partner to our clients,” Mroueh added.
Smith said of his new roost, “I’ve had my eye on Zulu and what they’ve been doing with Zulubot for several years. I’m excited to bring my expertise and combine it with such a talented and creative group.”
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