Production company Alkemy X has added director Tatjana Green to its roster for U.S. commercial representation. The Canadian/German filmmaker combines a broad background as a creative director, art director and designer on the agency side with over a decade of on-set and location experience. Green has directed a diverse range of commercials, short films, music videos and filmed content series for clients like Sony, Toyota, Procter & Gamble, ESPN, Warner and Walmart, as well as a 2020 Super Bowl spot for P&G.
Her work has been featured and awarded at such top festivals as the Webby Awards, Berlin Independent Film Festival, Hollyshorts LA Film Festival, LA Femme Film Festival, Austin Music Video Festival, and Toronto Independent Film Festival. She brings a uniquely holistic perspective to her role as a director, with regular hands-on experience across all aspects of the commercial production process, spanning branding, costuming and producing.
Nick Pitcavage, Alkemy X executive producer, said of Green, “Her upbeat style, charming sense of humor and creative storytelling gives her work a signature approach that is unmatched. Tatjana fits right in with our roster of highly visual directors and adds a refreshing sensibility that strengthens our offering to our clients.”
Green said she was drawn to the “supportive culture” at Alkemy X based on a “true spirit of collaboration.” Additionally, Green said, “Their experience in original content development and working on major entertainment titles also is exciting to me as a filmmaker.”
Green started her career as a creative director, working at various European advertising agencies for eight years. She transitioned into the film industry, wanting to help smaller ideas see the light of day by helping with production. In 2010, she founded Brought To You By, an agency and production company hybrid that brought a brand-driven approach from agency veterans to the creative production process. Trained at the elite Bauhaus in Germany, Green brings design philosophy and aesthetic to each set. Now based in NYC and Toronto, she continues to balance her commercial work with her film projects, including a current feature documentary exploring how the legal system could change for incarcerated mothers who suffer from postpartum psychosis.
Green was previously repped in the U.S. by ArtClass.
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