Mutt Film has brought Marc Corominas aboard its directorial roster for commercials, branded content and music videos–as well as advertising projects for the Hispanic market. His body of work includes commercials for brands like Audi, Toyota, Coca-Cola, PlayStation and the Foundation Against Drug Addiction. Having earned an Art Directors Club of Europe award for his Audi spot “Strelka’s Legacy,” Corominas most recently helmed the CME Group’s “Catch The Wave,” a hypervisual and effects-heavy ad for the financial American global markets company.
Mutt Film becomes Corominas’ first U.S. roost for representation covering general market commercial and music video content. Corominas was previously repped by 7 Santos for select Hispanic market assignments.
Mutt Film EP Beth George assessed, “Mark is phenomenally skilled and has truly honed a personal touch in all his brand work. He’s authentic in everything he does and knows instinctively how to get to the emotional core of every story.”
Corominas added that he was drawn to Mutt by its EPs Shannon Lords-Houghton and George, as well as the company’s roster of “dynamic talent.”
Barcelona-born and raised Corominas launched his love for filmmaking from early childhood, when he watched Sergio Leone’s Once Upon A Time In America at perhaps far too young an age. The action-packed story of gangsters, assassinations and drugs left an impression on Corominas and set him on his journey as a director, going on to study film at the University of Ramon Llull. In 2004 his personal project “Resized04” was selected for the prestigious RESfest film festival in New York, after which Corominas became a member of a directors’ collective in Barcelona where he experimented with new forms of expression.
Review: Malcolm Washington Makes His Feature Directing Debut With “The Piano Lesson”
An heirloom piano takes on immense significance for one family in 1936 Pittsburgh in August Wilson's "The Piano Lesson." Generational ties also permeate the film adaptation, in which Malcolm Washington follows in his father Denzel Washington's footsteps in helping to bring the entirety of The Pittsburgh Cycle — a series of 10 plays — to the screen.
Malcolm Washington did not start from scratch in his accomplished feature filmmaking debut. He enlisted much of the cast from the recent Broadway revival with Samuel L. Jackson (Doaker Charles), his brother, John David Washington (Boy Willie), Ray Fisher (Lymon) and Michael Potts (Whining Boy). Berniece, played by Danielle Brooks in the play, is now beautifully portrayed by Danielle Deadwyler. With such rich material and a cast for whom it's second nature, it would be hard, one imagines, to go wrong. Jackson's own history with the play goes back to its original run in 1987 when he was Boy Willie.
It's not the simplest thing to make a play feel cinematic, but Malcolm Washington was up to the task. His film opens up the world of the Charles family beyond the living room. In fact, this adaptation, which Washington co-wrote with "Mudbound" screenwriter Virgil Williams, goes beyond Wilson's text and shows us the past and the origins of the intricately engraved piano that's central to all the fuss. It even opens on a big, action-filled set piece in 1911, during which the piano is stolen from a white family's home. Another fleshes out Doaker's monologue in which he explains to the uninitiated, Fisher's Lymon, and the audience, the tortured history of the thing. While it might have been nice to keep the camera on Jackson, such a great, grounding presence throughout, the good news is that he really makes... Read More