Great Guns has signed director Adam Cameron for global representation. He had most recently been handled stateside by Limey.
Among his recent endeavors are a Movistar piece featuring an Icelandic soccer team for DDB Madrid, and a pair of Chili’s spots for Hill Holliday, Boston. The former, which features the entertainingly offbeat goal-scoring celebrations of the football team, has gained pan-European exposure on both TV and cinema.
And the Chili’s fare, recently covered in the New York Times, includes a spot, “Boom, Boom, Boom,” in which a male office worker asks a female colleague if she wants to go to Chili’s with him that night. She breaks out into song, responding in the voice of bluesman John Lee Hooker.
Other Cameron directorial credits include spots for Lebron James Home Court furniture out of Mullen, Winston-Salem, N.C., Mobil featuring Lewis Hamilton and Tony Stewart for McCann, New York; and the Virginia Tobacco Settlement Fund via Barber Martin, Richmond, Va. For the latter, Cameron’s comedic spot titled “Forest” earned inclusion last year into SHOOT‘s “The Best Work You May Never See” gallery.
Cameron’s work is largely of an understated comedic tone. The director said he joined Great Guns for its global reach, including its mainstay U.K. operation under the aegis of company founder Laura Gregory, as well as its U.S. foothold headed by managing director Tom Korsan. While Cameron continues to maintain relationships with production houses Tesauro, Madrid and Barcelona, through which he helmed the Movistar project, and H Films in Milan, Great Guns will be in charge of his overall workload both in the U.S. and internationally.
Cameron has been directing solo for some four years. He made his first major directorial splash as half of the Joe Public duo with Simon Cole. Joe Public twice earned DGA Award nominations as Best Commercial Director of the Year on the basis of work done in 1999 and 2001. Joe Public split in late ’06, with Cameron’s first roost as an individual helmer being Biscuit Filmworks, followed by Company, and then Limey.
Great Guns maintains offices in Venice, Calif., London, Prague, Mumbai, Shanghai and Singapore.
“Overnight Success” Has Been More Than A Decade In The Making For Meghann Fahy and Eve Hewson
Meghann Fahy and Eve Hewson, two of the stars of Netflix's whodunit "The Perfect Couple," have news for you if you want to call them breakouts: They've been working in this business for more than a decade.
Fahy made her TV debut in 2009 in an episode of "Gossip Girl." Hewson's first big film role was in 2011's "This Must Be the Place." They do concede, however, that it's recent TV roles โ "The White Lotus" for Fahy and "Bad Sisters" for Hewson โ that have led to new frontiers of opportunity.
Susanne Bier, who directed "The Perfect Couple," says both Fahy and Hewson are "going to be big stars."
"They certainly have proper, profound star quality, Both of them in very different ways," Bier says. "Both are incredibly creative, incredibly smart, and also have a impressive insight as to who they are. You can be a great actor or actress and not necessarily really know who you are yourself. And they do."
Hewson, 33, whose dad is U2 front man Bono, may have grown up in a famous family but she's now in demand in her own right. She will next be seen in a second season of "Bad Sisters, " out in November. She's in Noah Baumbach's next film, alongside Adam Sandler, George Clooney and Riley Keough. She's also been cast in Steven Spielberg's next production and is set to star opposite Murray Bartlett in a racing series for Hulu.
Fahy, 34, is in production on a limited series with Julianne Moore and Milly Alcock called "Sirens," written by Molly Smith Metzler ("Maid") for Netflix. She also has two films in the can with Josh O'Connor ("The Crown," "Challengers") and Brandon Sklenar ("It Ends With Us").
The two actors spoke candidly about this phase of their careers. This interview has been condensed for clarity and... Read More