Production house LIMEY has signed director Caitlin Felton. She joins a company directorial roster that includes Nick Jones, Rob Luehrs, KN+SAW, and Graeme Joyce.
Felton, who resides in New York City, is a graduate of the School of Visual Arts (Photography). Upon graduation, she began working in the On-Air Promos department of MTV. Felton got her start directing through MTV, and created many spots, which won numerous awards including ACE, BDA and Promax honors. While at MTV, Felton directed music videos, including a clip for Paula Cole, which was nominated for “Best Female Video of the Year” (MTV Awards). Felton made her transition to commercials when she joined Satellite Films. She has had tenures at Go Film, Rabbit and most recently Lost Highway. Felton has helmed spots for clients such as Sprite, AT&T, Medicare, Crayola, Lowes, Wal-Mart, Aveeno, PDFA, Tide, Quaker Oats, Duncan Hines, Rice Krispies, Sylvan Learning Center, Subway, Humira, Pampers, and Anheuser Busch. Recently, she traveled to Rwanda to work on a documentary through Women For Women International. A passion project, Felton interviewed and filmed women creating bricks for a new learning center that helps women recover from the aftermath of genocide.
LIMEY owner/executive producer Andrew Denyer was introduced to Felton by his colleagues at Chelsea. (LIMEY, a boutique operation, can tap into the resources of a larger production company via its ongoing partnership with Chelsea, which is headed by Allison Amon and Lisa Mehling.
Denyer recalled, “Lisa Mehling told me I had to meet Caitlin, and to get myself on a plane to New York as soon as possible. From our first phone call and meeting in New York, I felt an affinity–not only for Caitlin’s work–but who she is a director and person.”
Felton said she gravitated to LIMEY based on several factors, including her immediate rapport and connection with Denyer, as well as her new roost being a small shop that at the same time has the advantage of being able to access “the expansive resources that Chelsea offers when needed.”
“Megalopolis” Is One From The Heart–Of A Reflective Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola believes he can stop time.
It's not just a quality of the protagonist of Coppola's new film "Megalopolis," a visionary architect named Cesar Catilina ( Adam Driver ) who, by barking "Time, stop!" can temporarily freeze the world for a moment before restoring it with a snap of his fingers. And Coppola isn't referring to his ability to manipulate time in the editing suite. He means it literally.
"We've all had moments in our lives where we approach something you can call bliss," Coppola says. "There are times when you have to leave, have work, whatever it is. And you just say, 'Well, I don't care. I'm going to just stop time.' I remember once actually thinking I would do that."
Time is much on Coppola's mind. He's 85 now. Eleanor, his wife of 61 years, died in April. "Megalopolis," which is dedicated to her, is his first movie in 13 years. He's been pondering it for more than four decades. The film begins, fittingly, with the image of a clock.
"It's funny, you live your life going from being a young person to being an older person. You're looking in that direction," Coppola said in a recent interview at a Toronto hotel before the North American premiere of "Megalopolis." "But to understand it, you have to look in the other direction. You have to look at it from the point of view of the older looking at the younger, which you're receding from."
"I'm sort of thinking of my life in reverse," Coppola says.
You have by now probably heard a few things about "Megalopolis." Maybe you know that Coppola financed the $120 million budget himself, using his lucrative wine empire to realize a long-held vision of Roman epic set in a modern New York. You might be familiar with the film's clamorous reception from critics... Read More