Howling Music has hired Brittany Gutierrez to serve as executive producer. Gutierrez brings to the Nashville-based music house more than a decade of producer experience, most recently with Ford’s longtime key agency GTB. Her focus will be on expanding Howling’s agency connections while assisting with production oversight and management.
“Brittany has been one of our best clients and we’ve always been blown away with her creative and organizational skills,” said Howling Music managing director David Grow. “We feel very lucky to have an agency pro like Britt on our team.”
A life-long music fan, Gutierrez says that she could not pass on the opportunity to move to the music side of the advertising industry. “I love music and really believe in this company completely so that made it an easy decision,” she observed.
Gutierrez added that she was drawn to the opportunity to introduce Howling Music’s library to agencies and brands. “It’s an eclectic collection and offers quality tracks that you really can’t find anywhere else.”
Gutierrez spent close to four years at GTB as a producer of broadcast and integrated media for Ford and other accounts. She also worked with Ford Communications on public relations assignments. Previously, she spent four years at Commonwealth/McCann, producing television, out-of-home and digital advertising, including for Chevrolet’s reintroduction of the Corvette Stingray. She began her career with Inspira Marketing Group.
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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