RSA’s Black Dog Films, a multi-disciplinary production company which built its reputation on breakthrough music videos for emerging and established artists, has brought on board Vox Media and Vice Media alum Julia Ochsenreiter as executive producer. The seasoned new media producer will focus on cultivating opportunities for non-traditional content targeting youth culture across music, art, fashion and social issues, and developing new directorial talent.
Ochsenreiter brings experience creating content for Millennial and Gen Z audiences as sr. producer at Vox Media, where she developed and produced branded content campaigns for verticals Vox, The Verge, SBNation, Racked and Eater in partnership with clients such as Infiniti, Chase, Marriott, Reebok and Lincoln; and as creative producer at Vice Media, where she helped launch initiatives such as Vice News and the YouTube Music Awards directed by Spike Jonze and Chris Milk, as well as various partnerships with Google, Live Nation and other clients. Ochsenreiter cut her teeth in marketing at Columbia Records, where she worked with top musical artists including Adele, J Cole, One Direction and Beyoncé, and media partners MTV, VH1 and BET.
“With her background producing for tastemakers like Vox and Vice Media, Julia brings great experience and insights about creating content for youth culture across today’s most relevant media platforms,” said David Mitchell, managing director, RSA Films. “She also has a great track record working with leading labels, artists and directors.”
To complement both Black Dog’s core work in music videos, and recent push into documentaries, branded content, short films, photography and experiential content, the company has hired Molly Bohas of secret |] door to represent the Black Dog U.S. roster. A music industry trailblazer, Bohas brings well-honed experience and relationships with labels, publishers, brands, artists and pioneering directors. She founded creative collective/management company secret |] door in 2016, working with award-winning directors Chris Hopewell and Alan Ferguson.
Prior to secret |] door, Bohas worked at music publishing company North Star Media as a sr. creative director, finding music for content and sync licensing deals across all media platforms. She also worked as an independent rep, managing award-winning music video directors including Alan Ferguson, Jesse Dylan, Chris Hopewell, Alma Har’el and Omri Cohen.
Bohas spent nearly a decade at Anonymous Content representing pioneering directors (e.g. David Fincher, Mark Romanek, Jake Nava, Alan Ferguson, Wong Kar-Wai, Gore Verbinski and many others) on scores of high-profile music videos–Johnny Cash’s “Hurt,” Jay-Z’s “99 Problems,” NIN’s “Only,” No Doubt’s “Hella Good,” Beyoncé’s “Single Ladies,” Katy Perry’s “Hot N Cold,” DJ Shadow’s “Six Days” and Audioslave’s “Cochise,” to note only a few. She also associate produced six LIVE EARTH short films at Anonymous including those by directors Chad Lowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Mac Carter and Malcolm Venville.
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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