The Directors Network (TDN), the talent agency for freelance directors and DPs, has signed B. Monét, an award-winning writer/director whose work has received recognition from dozens of festivals, including Sundance, Cannes and Tribeca. Currently splitting her time between NYC and LA, Monét has turned out work that poses questions about identity, society, race, and culture. As a director of commercials and branded content, she has worked with celebrities from Reese Witherspoon to Tarana Burke, and national brands like Hyundai, Levi’s, Estée Lauder, Uber, and Crate & Barrel. Monét’s passion for BIPOC representation in the media extends beyond the faces in front of the camera. Recently, she was selected as one of the winners for the Queen Collective in partnership with Queen Latifah, Tribeca and P&G. Her short film Ballet After Dark is now airing on BET….
Former Roku executive Doug Shineman has joined technology startup Streamwise as chief revenue officer. In that capacity, he is responsible for Streamwise’s revenue generation, including all dealmaking, strategy and marketing for the business, while holding a dual role as chief revenue officer for Streamwise’s film and series distribution label, 1091 Pictures. Shineman comes over to Streamwise from Roku’s content acquisition team, where he played a key role in the rapid growth of The Roku Channel’s ad-supported content pipeline over the last two years. Shineman sat on a small team at Roku focused on growing the company’s platform revenues through strategic content partnerships during a period where Roku grew platform revenues by 78% year-over-year and doubled its valuation. Prior to Roku, Shineman led business development for The Orchard’s Film & TV group as VP, business development, before it was acquired by Streamwise’s current owner and renamed 1091 Pictures. Shineman drove the expansion of The Orchard’s distribution network for films and TV series from 2008 through 2018, striking partnerships with Netflix, Apple, Google, Hulu, Amazon, AT&T, Verizon, Pluto TV, Tubi, Sony Pictures and Lionsgate, among hundreds of other entertainment companies….
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