Biscuit Filmworks has added Bine Bach to its directorial roster for commercials and branded content in both the U.S. and U.K. This marks her first ad representation in the American and U.K. ad markets. Based in Copenhagen, Bach is an award-winning director whose work integrates deadpan humor and surrealism to great effect. She continues to be repped by production house Bacon in the Scandinavian marketplace.
Danish director Bach has been fascinated by comedy from an early age. Her childhood aspiration was to become a stand-up comedian, but a fervent dislike of being alone on stage meant she needed another outlet for her unique mindset–which is where filmmaking came into play.
Bach began her advertising career as a creative at Wieden + Kennedy New York. She stepped out on her own with writing, directing, and editing the award-winning film “Say Aaahhh!” for Danish department store Magasin. She has also directed the Instagram video series “Leandra Dresses Leandra” for Leandra Medine Cohen’s fashion blog Man Repeller, ads for designer Gelareh Mizrahi, and the brand film for femcare innovators Billie, which was shortlisted for a Young Director Award this year.
“Bine brings so much creativity and craft to everything she does. She makes the world a better place,” shared Rupert Reynolds-Maclean, managing director of Biscuit Filmworks UK.
Bach said, “I’ve always looked to Biscuit as having one of the strongest comedy rosters in the industry with directors I admire so much, so it’s incredible for me to join that list. I’ve had a very welcoming experience so far and I can’t wait to work with this team.”
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