Director Scotty Bergstein has signed with TWC Films, Los Angeles, for exclusive representation in the U.S. The move reunites him with TWC managing director/executive producer Mark Thomas. The pair first worked together at Area 51 Films. Bergstein was last repped by production house Mechaniks.
Bergstein landed his first break as Ridley Scott's assistant on the movie Thelma and Louise. Having the incredible opportunity to watch and learn from directors like Tony and Ridley Scott, and David Fincher, Bergstein considers his time with them to be comparable to the best directing school in the country. "It was directing 101," he said, "I was able to watch the whole movie process from early script development all the way through postproduction." Upon finishing his spec reel in 1997, Bergstein soon thereafter saw ESPN pick up the spot that launched his directing career, "Cable Boy."
Bergstein's credits span such brands as Adidas, McDonalds, AT&T, Verizon, Heineken, Bud Light, Foot Locker, Exxon, Goodyear, NBA, KSwiss, Reese's, TaylorMade and Toyota.
TWC is represented by Lori Benson on the East Coast, Jen Giles in the Midwest, and Toni Saarinen and Brandon Pico on the West Coast.
Daniel Craig Embraced Openness For Role In Director Luca Guadagnino’s “Queer”
Daniel Craig is sitting in the restaurant of the Carlyle Hotel talking about how easy it can be to close yourself off to new experiences.
"We get older and maybe out of fear, we want to control the way we are in our lives. And I think it's sort of the enemy of art," Craig says. "You have to push against it. Whether you have success or not is irrelevant, but you have to try to push against it."
Craig, relaxed and unshaven, has the look of someone who has freed himself of a too snug tuxedo. Part of the abiding tension of his tenure as James Bond was this evident wrestling with the constraints that came along with it. Any such strains, though, would seem now to be completely out the window.
Since exiting that role, Craig, 56, has seemed eager to push himself in new directions. He performed "Macbeth" on Broadway. His drawling detective Benoit Blanc ("Halle Berry!") stole the show in "Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery." And now, Craig gives arguably his most transformative performance as the William S. Burroughs avatar Lee in Luca Guadagnino's tender tale of love and longing in postwar Mexico City, "Queer."
Since the movie's Venice Film Festival premiere, it's been one of the fall's most talked about performances — for its explicit sex scenes, for its vulnerability and for its extremely un-007-ness.
"The role, they say, must have been a challenge or 'You're so brave to do this,'" Craig said in a recent interview alongside Guadagnino. "I kind of go, 'Eh, not really.' It's why I get up in the morning."
In "Queer," which A24 releases Wednesday in theaters, Craig again plays a well-traveled, sharply dressed, cocktail-drinking man. But the similarities with his most famous role stop there. Lee is an American expat living in 1950s... Read More