Carissa Ranelycke Berlin has been hired to serve as 360i’s new head of production. She’s spent her 15-plus year career in a variety of digital, broadcast and integrated production roles, delivering everything from digital content to large installations and events to Super Bowl broadcast spots for clients like Coca-Cola, Lowes, the NFL and Visa. She’s produced work that has won numerous awards from Cannes, Clios, D&AD, One Show and more.
Originally from Sweden, she got her start in advertising at Grey Stockholm where she spent five years as an integrated producer before moving on to serve as digital producer at 180 Amsterdam. While there, she worked on the 2010 World Cup campaign for adidas and helping the brand build out its e-Commerce running segment on adidas.com. In 2011, she moved to New York to join digital boutique Syrup, a company that specialized in luxury and lifestyle brands as part of the Digitas, LBI and MRY networks. She went on to lead production teams at agencies including AKQA, BBDO and Translation, including leading production efforts for Translation’s sister company and music label United Masters.
Menno Kluin, 360i’s chief creative officer, said of Berlin, “The diversity of her experience is reflective of the demands of the current marketplace. Combined with her passion for mentorship, this makes her a strong leader for our production team.”
Berlin–who officially starts at 360i on November 12, commented, “Throughout my career I’ve embraced opportunities to lean into change. I was drawn to the integrated nature of work produced at 360i, and their talent’s reputation for informed experimentation.”
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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