Director Of Verizon Production
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3) Generation Lockdown was the most important work I did in 2019. My brother is a lacrosse coach at Marjorie Stoneman Douglass in Parkland so I jumped at the opportunity to partner with MFOL. The producers at Hungry Man and I spent six months researching companies that would allow us to shoot our drill in their workspace…and while the awards and accolades are great the most important reward from that project is that it started so many conversations about what our children are learning every day at school.
4) Definitely getting a sense that there are more entertainment style jobs coming our way…which is a great and exciting challenge for the producers on my team. One of our deliverables for Super Bowl 2019 was a half hour documentary that ran on CBS Sports and the NFL Network – after doing so many digital executions it was fun to have the opportunity to do a feature length execution.
5) Across all of our Verizon production platforms we are consistently learning to be more ergonomic and nimble. This will continue into 2020 as we producers will continue to be charged with leading the ways to efficient production solutions to accommodate tighter timelines and budgets. My production team is continuously keeping up with trends and learning how to problem solve in real time so we can keep ambitious programs on track creatively and financially.
6) Every year I challenge myself to do something impossible. From running marathons, to a small part in a big movie, there always needs to be a goal personally and professionally. For 2020 we have a few big hills to conquer.
Review: Writer-Director Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substance”
In its first two hours, "The Substance" is a well-made, entertaining movie. Writer-director Coralie Fargeat treats audiences to a heavy dose of biting social commentary on ageism and sexism in Hollywood, with a spoonful of sugar- and sparkle-doused body horror.
But the film's deliciously unhinged, blood-soaked and inevitably polarizing third act is what makes it unforgettable.
What begins as a dread-inducing but still relatively palatable sci-fi flick spirals deeper into absurdism and violence, eventually erupting — quite literally — into a full-blown monster movie. Let the viewer decide who the monster is.
Fargeat — who won best screenplay at this year's Cannes Film Festival — has been vocal about her reverence for "The Fly" director David Cronenberg, and fans of the godfather of body horror will see his unmistakable influence. But "The Substance" is also wholly unique and benefits from Fargeat's perspective, which, according to the French filmmaker, has involved extensive grappling with her own relationship to her body and society's scrutiny.
"The Substance" tells the story of Elisabeth Sparkle, a famed aerobics instructor with a televised show, played by a powerfully vulnerable Demi Moore. Sparkle is fired on her 50th birthday by a ruthless executive — a perfectly cast Dennis Quaid, who nails sleazy and gross.
Feeling rejected by a town that once loved her and despairing over her bygone star power, Sparkle learns from a handsome young nurse about a black-market drug that promises to create a "younger, more beautiful, more perfect" version of its user. Though she initially tosses the phone number in the trash, she soon fishes it out in a desperate panic and places an order.
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