Malik Vitthal, whose feature directorial debut Imperial Dreams won the Audience Award at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, has joined the roster of The Corner Shop for commercials and branded content in the U.S. market. This marks Vitthal’s first career representation in the ad arena.
Vitthal wrote and directed Imperial Dreams which is set for a full theatrical release this fall. Inspired by a real life story, the film was set and shot in Watts, Los Angeles. This gritty yet ultimately uplifting film stars John Boyega (Star Wars: The Force Awakens), who plays a reformed gangster returning home to his 4 year old son after 24 months of incarceration. Boyega’s character, Bambi, is looking to leave his former life behind, aspiring to become a novelist.
Vitthal joins a lineup of directors at The Corner Shop which includes Peter Thwaites (who launched the company in 2013 with producer Anna Hashmi), Wilfrid Brimo, Ellen Kuras, Jonathan Herman and James Rouse.
The sales force handling The Corner Shop consists of indie reps Resource on the West Coast, Ziegler/Jakubowicz on the East Coast and MKH Representation in the Midwest.
Juliette Welfling Takes On A Musical, A Crime Thriller, Comedy and Drama In “Emelia Pérez”
Editor Juliette Welfling has a track record of close-knit, heartfelt collaboration with writer-director Jacques Audiard, a four-time BAFTA Award nominee for Best Film not in the English Language--starting with The Beat That My Heart Skipped in 2006, then A Prophet in 2010, Rust and Bone in 2013, and Dheepan in 2017. He won for The Beat That My Heart Skipped and A Prophet.
Welfling cut three of those features: A Prophet, Rust and Bone, and Dheepan. And that shared filmography has since grown to most recently include Emelia Pérez, the Oscar buzz-worthy film from Netflix. Welfling herself is not stranger to Academy Award banter. In fact, she earned a Best Achievement in Film Editing Oscar nomination in 2008 for director Julian Schnabel’s The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.
Emelia Pérez is a hybrid musical/drama/thriller which introduces us to a talented but undervalued lawyer named Rita (portrayed by Zoe Saldana) who receives a lucrative offer out of the blue from a feared drug cartel boss who’s looking to retire from his sordid business and disappear forever by becoming the woman he’s always dreamt of being (Karla Sofía Gascón in a dual role as Manitas Del Monte/Emilia Pérez). Rita helps pull this off, orchestrating the faked death of Del Monte who leaves behind a widow (Jessi, played by Selena Gomez) and kids. While living comfortably and contently in her/their new identity, Pérez misses the children. Pérez once again enlists Rita--this time to return to family life, reuniting with the kids by pretending to be their aunt, the sister of Del Monte. Now as an aunt, Pérez winds up adopting a more altruistic bent professionally,... Read More