Beauty spot meets comedy short in the newest COVERGIRL film, Shade for Shade, which promotes COVERGIRL’s Exhibitionist Lipstick line. This two-minute online film from COVERGIRL takes us along for the ride with Issa Rae and her real-life best girlfriends (Megan Lawson, Abenet McMullen, Devin Walker) as the group navigates downtown LA on a night out.
Kim Gehrig of production house Somesuch directed for agency Droga5 New York.
CreditsClient COVERGIRL Agency Droga5 NY David Droga, creative chairman; Neil Heymann, chief creative officer; Alexander Nowak, executive creative director; Henry Kember, associate creative director; Neil Maclean, sr. art director; Hannah Park, copywriter; Gemma Slack, art director; Jesse Brihn, director of film production; Mike Hasinoff, executive producer; Jake Herman, associate producer; Mike Ladman, music supervisor. Production Somesuch Kim Gehrig, director; Nicky Barnes, exec producer; Saul Germaine, producer; Stuart Winecoff, DP. Editorial Work Editorial Jono Griffith, editor; Erica Thompson, exec producer; Jamie Lynn Perritt, producer; Theo Mercado, assistant editor. Postproduction MPC NY Matthew Loranger, exec producer; Krystle Timm, producer; Alvin Cruz, creative director; Sam Caine, lead Flame artist; Tim Crean, Derina Doorley, Rob Walker, Meggen Burdick, Giulia Barta, Greg Cutler, Lawrence Merrill, Flame team. Telecine Framestore Simon Bourne, colorist; Chris Anthony, sr. color producer; Hannah Oliver, Aaron Batista, production assistants. Music/Songs “Masterpiece”--Clarence Reid; “Go Off”--China Fox; “Dirty Looks”--China Fox; “I Choose You”--FOE; “Hold on Tight”--China Fox; “GPS”--Superfly Ky; “Maximum”--Deux Twins featuring Outlaw the Artist; “I Love You Dancer”--Marc Chantereau; “Shake It Up-Part 1”--Rickey Calloway. Sound Design Barking Owl Kelly Bayett, creative director/exec producer; Ashley Benton, producer; Morgan Johnson, sound designer. Audio Post Heard City Andi Lewis, producer; Dan Flosdorf, Mike Vitacco, mixers.
Director Gia Coppola Teams With Mejuri For “A New York Minute”; 1st Episode Takes Us To The Grocery Store
Mejuri, known for turning fine jewelry into an everyday luxury, has partnered with director Gia Coppola (The Last Show Girl, Palo Alto) and The Directors Bureau in Los Angeles, for the first time reimagining the brand’s story as episodic content. In a series of microfilms, co-created by Coppola and premiering following New York Fashion Week, Mejuri eschewed a typical celebrity campaign and cast us as voyeurs to a group of aspiring young women--real people, not actors--at the crossroads of their adult lives against the backdrop of New York City.
Titled “A New York Minute,” the series features five real-life friends, who include one perfectly imperfect heroine named Emma. The women celebrate ordinary moments and interactions which reveal, sometimes retrospectively, the extraordinary within the mundane. Adjacent to the brand’s own community, the 30-something year old cast includes Laura Love (Emma), Rebecca Ressler, Natalie Vall-Freed and Rozzi Crane. Mejuri’s jewelry makes an appearance as the best supporting actor.
“When I met with Gia and The Directors Bureau team, there was instant creative and personal chemistry and a natural alignment on the desire to push and blur the lines between marketing, storytelling, and the construct of what a ‘campaign’ could be,” said Jacob Jordan, chief brand officer, Mejuri. “Gia was able to push that idea into something that truly feels new and artful, with a realism and relatability that almost feels jarring. Gia was such a perfect collaborator and partner, someone I had complete trust in to be a catalyst for Mejuri’s values of celebrating women as their truest selves. I can’t wait for us to continue to tell the next chapters of this story.”
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