Production company tinygiant has added director Dan Saelinger to its roster.
Saelinger is a director, photographer, and visual collaborator. As a filmmaker, Saelinger has clients and agency collaborators that include Nike, Amazon, Nickelodeon, Target, Wieden+Kennedy, BBDO, mcgarrybowen, Grey and Deutsch. On the still photography side, he’s worked with the likes of Samsung, Budweiser, Dodge, Google, Kellogg’s, Reebok, Leo Burnett, Ogilvy & Mather, and Venables Bell & Partners.
From the time he received his first camera at the age of 15, rural Pennsylvania-born Saelinger decided he wanted to make a living capturing images. Raised in the MTV-era playing 8-bit video games, he’s drawn to all things graphic and colorful. He is also the founder of Saelinger & Co., a full-service creative studio in Portland, Oregon that creates content using motion, animation, photography, and design.
Veronica Diaferia, founder/executive producer at tinygiant, said, “Dan is incredibly multi-faceted and is constantly surprising us with his depth of knowledge and experience. He adds great depth to our roster with his impeccable taste and highly stylized aesthetic, and confirms our love of filmmakers defined by strong, bold and colorful visuals.”
Saelinger said of his new roost and their people, “They are the perfect blend of boutique and global, which enables them to be as diverse, adaptable, and cutting edge as they are. I’m extremely excited to expand the reach of my work with their incredible team, and combine my still photography experience with their immense production know-how.”
Saelinger was previously represented by Apostrophe, which continues to handle him for still photography.
The talent roster at tinygiant includes Jenn Shaw, Daisy Ifama, Aleksandra Kingo, and Louise Palmberg. The Brooklyn-based company also recently launched a division to serve the LatinX market, featuring a lineup of directors with deep roots in Latin America.
Rom-Com Mainstay Hugh Grant Shifts To The Dark Side and He’s Never Been Happier
After some difficulties connecting to a Zoom, Hugh Grant eventually opts to just phone instead.
"Sorry about that," he apologizes. "Tech hell." Grant is no lover of technology. Smart phones, for example, he calls the "devil's tinderbox."
"I think they're killing us. I hate them," he says. "I go on long holidays from them, three or four days at at time. Marvelous."
Hell, and our proximity to it, is a not unrelated topic to Grant's new film, "Heretic." In it, two young Mormon missionaries (Chloe East, Sophie Thatcher) come knocking on a door they'll soon regret visiting. They're welcomed in by Mr. Reed (Grant), an initially charming man who tests their faith in theological debate, and then, in much worse things.
After decades in romantic comedies, Grant has spent the last few years playing narcissists, weirdos and murders, often to the greatest acclaim of his career. But in "Heretic," a horror thriller from A24, Grant's turn to the dark side reaches a new extreme. The actor who once charmingly stammered in "Four Weddings and a Funeral" and who danced to the Pointer Sisters in "Love Actually" is now doing heinous things to young people in a basement.
"It was a challenge," Grant says. "I think human beings need challenges. It makes your beer taste better in the evening if you've climbed a mountain. He was just so wonderfully (expletive)-up."
"Heretic," which opens in theaters Friday, is directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, co-writers of "A Quiet Place." In Grant's hands, Mr. Reed is a divinely good baddie — a scholarly creep whose wry monologues pull from a wide range of references, including, fittingly, Radiohead's "Creep."
In an interview, Grant spoke about these and other facets of his character, his journey... Read More