Nathan James Tettey, a noted U.K. music video director, is taking up the role of creative director at Untold Studios. Also assuming a creative director’s position at the London-based content studio is Iona Goulder.
Tettey joins from Warner Records where he was head of creative. He made his name directing numerous high-profile music videos including “Own It” by Stormzy, Ed Sheeran and Burna Boy, and “Only You” by Drake and Headie One. Tettey’s body of work has had well over 100 million YouTube views to date.
Early in his production career, Tettey worked at Partizan and Blink and he founded Dirty Works. At Untold, Nathan will work across TV, music and advertising, and will continue to collaborate with artists on their music videos.
The accomplished Goulder meanwhile as creative director at untold is responsible for developing Gen Z-focused, original content for digital platforms, brands and commissioners.
Goulder recently returned from L.A. where she was VP and creative director at Kyra TV. During her time at Kyra, Goulder developed and launched new IP and original content across the network, including the hugely successful, unscripted Youtube show NAYVA.
Goulder has consistently developed Gen Z original content in collaboration with brands such as Nike, Converse, Beats by Dre, Hewlett-Packard, Google, Rimmel and Aussie Hair. She previously worked at Amuse, part of VICE Media Group, and adidas, where she was sr. content strategist.
Review: Malcolm Washington Makes His Feature Directing Debut With “The Piano Lesson”
An heirloom piano takes on immense significance for one family in 1936 Pittsburgh in August Wilson's "The Piano Lesson." Generational ties also permeate the film adaptation, in which Malcolm Washington follows in his father Denzel Washington's footsteps in helping to bring the entirety of The Pittsburgh Cycle — a series of 10 plays — to the screen.
Malcolm Washington did not start from scratch in his accomplished feature filmmaking debut. He enlisted much of the cast from the recent Broadway revival with Samuel L. Jackson (Doaker Charles), his brother, John David Washington (Boy Willie), Ray Fisher (Lymon) and Michael Potts (Whining Boy). Berniece, played by Danielle Brooks in the play, is now beautifully portrayed by Danielle Deadwyler. With such rich material and a cast for whom it's second nature, it would be hard, one imagines, to go wrong. Jackson's own history with the play goes back to its original run in 1987 when he was Boy Willie.
It's not the simplest thing to make a play feel cinematic, but Malcolm Washington was up to the task. His film opens up the world of the Charles family beyond the living room. In fact, this adaptation, which Washington co-wrote with "Mudbound" screenwriter Virgil Williams, goes beyond Wilson's text and shows us the past and the origins of the intricately engraved piano that's central to all the fuss. It even opens on a big, action-filled set piece in 1911, during which the piano is stolen from a white family's home. Another fleshes out Doaker's monologue in which he explains to the uninitiated, Fisher's Lymon, and the audience, the tortured history of the thing. While it might have been nice to keep the camera on Jackson, such a great, grounding presence throughout, the good news is that he really makes... Read More