Directors Peter Livolsi and Martin Dix, known professionally as Peter Martin, have signed with Auckland-based production company Robber’s Dog for Australasian representation. The directorial duo continues to be handled by Imperial Woodpecker in the U.S. Although still operating under the Peter Martin banner, the pair are now directing as a collective, with Livolsi and Dix both tackling solo projects in addition to their continued work together. Before their professional relationship began, Livolsi and Dix met at a party where their shared love of anything cinematic helped them get over their shared hatred of small talk. At that time, Livolsi was attending film school at the American Film Institute, whereas Dix was an already well-established agency creative director in the LA office of Deutsch. Over the coming years, Peter Martin would go on to forge a reputation for producing stylistic commercials for a diverse range of brands and clients including the BBC, McDonald’s, MTV, Dentyne, Daily Juice, Priceline and FedEx. Their work has been recognized by The One Show, Cannes, The London International Awards (LIA), AICE Awards, SHOOT’s New Director’s Showcase, Student Emmys and Academy Awards, The Austin Film Festival Audience Award and Best Short Film at the Tribeca Film Festival….
Los Angeles-based production company SOCIETY has solidified its film, broadcast and branded content offerings by aligning with sister animation company The Academy under one single banner. The newly unveiled SOCIETY not only houses both live-action and animation services, but a bolstered directorial roster that includes the additions of mixed-media powerhouse Brikk, motion graphics maestros Cub Studios, and the duo We Think Things. With the merge of Academy into SOCIETY, the former’s staff animation producer David “Guti” Rosado, will now serve as head of postproduction for SOCIETY, joining a roster of not only the aforementioned new hires, but directors such as J. Austin Wilson, Zia Mohajerjasbi, Sean Pecknold, David Viau, Christian Sorensen Hansen, Rachel Lee Goldenberg, Megan Griffiths and Lynn Shelton….
Carrie Coon Relishes Being Part Of An Ensemble–From “The Gilded Age” To “His Three Daughters”
It can be hard to catch Carrie Coon on her own.
She is far more likely to be found in the thick of an ensemble. That could be on TV, in "The Gilded Age," for which she was just Emmy nominated, or in the upcoming season of "The White Lotus," which she recently shot in Thailand. Or it could be in films, most relevantly, Azazel Jacobs' new drama, "His Three Daughters," in which Coon stars alongside Natasha Lyonne and Elizabeth Olsen as sisters caring for their dying father.
But on a recent, bright late-summer morning, Coon is sitting on a bench in the bucolic northeast Westchester town of Pound Ridge. A few years back, she and her husband, the playwright Tracy Letts, moved near here with their two young children, drawn by the long rows of stone walls and a particularly good BLT from a nearby cafe that Letts, after biting into, declared must be within 15 miles of where they lived.
In a few days, they would both fly to Los Angeles for the Emmys (Letts was nominated for his performance in "Winning Time" ). But Coon, 43, was then largely enmeshed in the day-to-day life of raising a family, along with their nightly movie viewings, which Letts pulls from his extensive DVD collection. The previous night's choice: "Once Around," with Holly Hunter and Richard Dreyfus.
Coon met Letts during her breakthrough performance in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe?" on Broadway in 2012. She played the heavy-drinking housewife Honey. It was the first role that Coon read and knew, viscerally, she had to play. Immediately after saying this, Coon sighs.
"It sounds like something some diva would say in a movie from the '50s," Coon says. "I just walked around in my apartment in my slip and I had pearls and a little brandy. I made a grocery list and I just did... Read More