Director Emilie Thalund has signed with bicoastal production company Epoch Films for representation in the U.S. spanning commercials and branded content. This marks her first career representation in the American ad market. She continues to be handled by Bacon Films in Sweden, Denmark and Norway, and by Czar in the Netherlands.
Hailing from Copenhagen, Thalund achieved a master in Art & Architecture from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts but chose to pursue her love of film, characters and storytelling. She was hired as an assistant to Martin Werner, acclaimed director and founder of Bacon Films, which ultimately led to her own directing career.
A sensitive observer, a dreamer and a visually strong narrator, Thalund is interested in the stories of women and wants to lend her insights to those narratives.
She has won a Gold Screen in the Young Directors Awards at Cannes Lions with her film “Period” for the Passion Project. She was also recently named “Talent of the Year” within the Danish advertising industry.
Thalund and Epoch are represented in the West by Dexter Randazzo and Jonathan Logan at The Department of Sales; in the East by Tara Averill and John Robertson at Representation; and in the Midwest by Chris Brown and Nicole Feddock at Baer Brown Reps.
Director Mike Flanagan’s “The Life of Chuck” Wins People’s Choice Award At The Toronto Film Fest
The Toronto International Film Festival’s People’s Choice Award went to “The Life of Chuck,” handing director-writer Mike Flanagan’s Stephen King adaptation one of the most-watched prizes of the fall film festival circuit.
The award for “The Life of Chuck” was announced Sunday (9/15) as North American’s largest film festival drew to a close. “The Life of Chuck,” based on King’s 2020 novella of the same name, stars Tom Hiddleston as Charles “Chuck” Krantz, an ordinary man living through apocalyptic cataclysms. Mark Hamill, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Karen Gillan and Jacob Tremblay co-star.
TIFF’s People’s Choice Award is regarded as a reliable Oscar harbinger. Since 2012, every winner of the festival’s top prize has gone on to be nominated for best picture at the Academy Awards. Last year, Cord Jefferson’s “American Fiction” won, and went on to be a major awards contender.
But “The Life of Chuck” could test that track record. The film is up for sale and doesn’t yet have distribution. It could be acquired and quickly readied for release this fall, or it might end up a 2025 release. “The Life of Chuck” drew mixed — though mostly positive reviews — out of Toronto, though audiences were clearly charmed by the uplifting drama.
Runners-up for the People’s Choice Award, which is voted on by festival attendees, were both films that first premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May. The first was Jacques Audiard’s “Emilia Pérez.” The second runner-up was Sean Baker’s “Anora,” the Palme d’Or winner at Cannes.
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