Design studio and creative agency Brand New School has added director Kyle Sauer to its roster for U.S. representation. His work spans commercials, music videos, digital media, short films and installations.
Previously repped by Neighborhood Watch, Sauer is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker who draws inspiration from internet culture to gear his work toward younger generations, playing with mixed media to infuse his live-action material with vibrancy and humor.
Originally hailing from Illinois, Sauer attended film school at Boston University before moving to New York, where he further developed his artistry through animation and sketch comedy. He honed his skills as a creative developer at multiple production companies, as a designer at Dark Igloo, and as sr. art director at Giphy before taking up the mantle of director, bringing his stylized, playful, and humorous approach to interactive commercial campaigns for clients like KFC, Oscar Mayer, Pepsi, Warby Parker, and Meta.
In the music space, Sauer combines his film directorial talents with his skills as an animator to create innovative and visually striking music videos for artists like Keke Palmer, Hippo Campus, and Young the Giant. Sauer's short film, Take Me To Your Party, is currently streaming on Roku originals, and his comedy short, Dave And Alice Want To Have Sex, screened at multiple festivals across the U.S.
Sauer said of Brand New School. “They’re a truly unique creative company; their holistic approach to projects and inspiring work ethic is refreshing in the commercial world. They appreciate my creative perspective and ambitions to evolve my work to its full potential, and their innovative team has the expertise to make it happen. I’m genuinely excited to work with them and bold brands to push boundaries in creating fresh, entertaining, and beautiful projects. I can’t wait to see what our collaborations will cook up.”
Brand New School CCO and founder Jonathan Notaro said, “Kyle’s unique understanding of comedy, craft, and design-driven art direction pair well with what we are building here at BNS. We knew it was a great fit from our first conversation about his approach to filmmaking and our shared values.”
Carrie Coon Relishes Being Part Of An Ensemble–From “The Gilded Age” To “His Three Daughters”
It can be hard to catch Carrie Coon on her own.
She is far more likely to be found in the thick of an ensemble. That could be on TV, in "The Gilded Age," for which she was just Emmy nominated, or in the upcoming season of "The White Lotus," which she recently shot in Thailand. Or it could be in films, most relevantly, Azazel Jacobs' new drama, "His Three Daughters," in which Coon stars alongside Natasha Lyonne and Elizabeth Olsen as sisters caring for their dying father.
But on a recent, bright late-summer morning, Coon is sitting on a bench in the bucolic northeast Westchester town of Pound Ridge. A few years back, she and her husband, the playwright Tracy Letts, moved near here with their two young children, drawn by the long rows of stone walls and a particularly good BLT from a nearby cafe that Letts, after biting into, declared must be within 15 miles of where they lived.
In a few days, they would both fly to Los Angeles for the Emmys (Letts was nominated for his performance in "Winning Time" ). But Coon, 43, was then largely enmeshed in the day-to-day life of raising a family, along with their nightly movie viewings, which Letts pulls from his extensive DVD collection. The previous night's choice: "Once Around," with Holly Hunter and Richard Dreyfus.
Coon met Letts during her breakthrough performance in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe?" on Broadway in 2012. She played the heavy-drinking housewife Honey. It was the first role that Coon read and knew, viscerally, she had to play. Immediately after saying this, Coon sighs.
"It sounds like something some diva would say in a movie from the '50s," Coon says. "I just walked around in my apartment in my slip and I had pearls and a little brandy. I made a grocery list and I just did... Read More