International production company Believe Media has added Anthony Mandler to its global roster of directors. This marks the first time he has signed with a company for commercial representation.
Mandler is known for highly sophisticated work spanning different platforms and genres and for featuring some of the most famous names in entertainment today. Following successes as a prolific music video director and celebrated stills photographer, he diversified into spotmaking.
Mandler has directed commercials for such brands as Nike, Samsung, Ciroc and Motorola, and his epic still photography spans such notables as David Beckham, Ryan Phillipe, Lebron James, Eva Mendes and Eminem for publications like Entertainment Weekly, Esquire, Rolling Stone, ESPN and Men’s Health.
Mandler’s body of music videos include more than a dozen music videos for Rihanna and music projects with Jay-Z, Mary J Blige, Drake and The Killers. Like its predecessor “National Anthem” that also deals with the depiction of the American female archetype, Mandler’s new music video–for Lana Del Rey, “Ride”–is currently trending worldwide.
Additionally, Mandler has three feature projects in development: Vlad, produced by Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner at Plan B, Last Days of American Crime with Noomi Rapace at Radical Studios and Dead of Winter staring Haley Steinfeld.
Martin Scorsese On “The Saints,” Faith In Filmmaking and His Next Movie
When Martin Scorsese was a child growing up in New York's Little Italy, he would gaze up at the figures he saw around St. Patrick's Old Cathedral. "Who are these people? What is a saint?" Scorsese recalls. "The minute I walk out the door of the cathedral and I don't see any saints. I saw people trying to behave well within a world that was very primal and oppressed by organized crime. As a child, you wonder about the saints: Are they human?" For decades, Scorsese has pondered a project dedicated to the saints. Now, he's finally realized it in "Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints," an eight-part docudrama series debuting Sunday on Fox Nation, the streaming service from Fox News Media. The one-hour episodes, written by Kent Jones and directed by Elizabeth Chomko, each chronicle a saint: Joan of Arc, Francis of Assisi, John the Baptist, Thomas Becket, Mary Magdalene, Moses the Black, Sebastian and Maximillian Kolbe. Joan of Arc kicks off the series on Sunday, with three weekly installments to follow; the last four will stream closer to Easter next year. In naturalistic reenactments followed by brief Scorsese-led discussions with experts, "The Saints" emphasizes that, yes, the saints were very human. They were flawed, imperfect people, which, to Scorsese, only heightens their great sacrifices and gestures of compassion. The Polish priest Kolbe, for example, helped spread antisemitism before, during WWII, sheltering Jews and, ultimately, volunteering to die in the place of a man who had been condemned at Auschwitz. Scorsese, who turns 82 on Sunday, recently met for an interview not long after returning from a trip to his grandfather's hometown in Sicily. He was made an honorary citizen and the experience was still lingering in his mind. Remarks have... Read More