Private Island–a London-based animation and live-action studio founded in 2015 by director Chris Boyle and executive producer Helen Power as a home for unconventional multi-disciplinary work–has secured its first U.S. representation, joining the roster of production house SKUNK for commercials and branded content.
Private Island has directed and animated spots for assorted brands including Nike, Visa, F1, Uber and Vodaphone, as well as video game projects for Call of Duty, The Division and Pokemon. Prior to launching Private Island, Boyle and Power collaborated for 10-plus years working on commercials, music promos and gaming cinematics for companies across London.
Boyle is a TED educator with work featured on Adult Swim, Stash, Little White Lies and Creative Review, as well as earning VIMEO Staff Picks and selected for One Dot Zero and the Sundance Film Festival. Awards include four nominations and one win at the MVAs and a Guinness World Record.
Currently SKUNK and Private Island are collaborating on a project for a popular gaming company in the U.S.
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