Register

    Bridget Stokes Lands Her First Spot Representation, Joins The Corner Shop

    By SHOOTUpdated:No Comments1639 Views
    Bridget Stokes

    Director won an Emmy last year for HBO's "A Black Lady Sketch Show"

    LOS ANGELES & LONDON --

    The Corner Shop has brought comedy director Bridget Stokes aboard its roster for commercial representation in the U.S. and U.K./Europe. This marks her first representation in the advertising arena.

    Stokes’ masterful comedy direction won her an Emmy for HBO’s A Black Lady Sketch Show in 2022. The series also earned her an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Variety Sketch Series as well as NAACP Image Award nomination for Outstanding Directing in a Comedy Series. Stokes served as director and co-executive producer alongside A Black Lady Sketch Show creator Robin Thede.

    Stokes' other directing credits include the feature film Boy Genius, starring Miles Brown and Rita Wilson; Apple TV +’s series Hello, Jack! The Kindness Show; Disney’s Gabby Duran & The Unsittables; and Disney’s upcoming comedy series Saturdays.

    Anna Hashmi, founder of The Corner Shop, said, “Bridget is the real deal. She’s smart, she’s funny, she’s an incredibly talented director and will be a great partner for agencies and brands to bring some fresh comedy to their commercials.”

    Stokes said of her signing, “I’m really excited to be working with the folks at The Corner Shop! Their work is thoughtful and gorgeous and I’m eager to be a part of the team.”

    Additionally, Stokes has produced a number of feature films including The Lost Husband starring Josh Duhamel; and Netflix’s The Rachel Divide which was nominated for Best Documentary Feature at the Tribeca Film Festival. 

     

    Category:News
    Tags:A Black Lady Sketch ShowAnna HashmiBridget StokesThe Corner Shop



    Raoul Peck Resurrects A Once-Forgotten Anti-Apartheid Photographer In “Ernest Cole: Lost and Found”

    Friday, November 22, 2024

    When the photographer Ernest Cole died in 1990 at the age of 49 from pancreatic cancer at a Manhattan hospital, his death was little noted.

    Cole, one of the most important chroniclers of apartheid-era South Africa, was by then mostly forgotten and penniless. Banned by his native country after the publication of his pioneering photography book "House of Bondage," Cole had emigrated in 1966 to the United States. But his life in exile gradually disintegrated into intermittent homelessness. A six-paragraph obituary in The New York Times ran alongside a list of death notices.

    But Cole receives a vibrant and stirring resurrection in Raoul Peck's new film "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found," narrated in Cole's own words and voiced by LaKeith Stanfield. The film, which opens in theaters Friday, is laced throughout with Cole's photographs, many of them not before seen publicly.

    As he did in his Oscar-nominated James Baldwin documentary "I Am Not Your Negro," the Haitian-born Peck shares screenwriting credit with his subject. "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found" is drawn from Cole's own writings. In words and images, Peck brings the tragic story of Cole to vivid life, reopening the lens through which Cole so perceptively saw injustice and humanity.

    "Film is a political tool for me," Peck said in a recent interview over lunch in Manhattan. "My job is to go to the widest audience possible and try to give them something to help them understand where they are, what they are doing, what role they are playing. It's about my fight today. I don't care about the past."

    "Ernest Cole: Lost and Found" is a movie layered with meaning that goes beyond Cole's work. It asks questions not just about the societies Cole documented but of how he was treated as an artist,... Read More

    MySHOOT Profiles


    Add A Comment