Director Claire Thomas has joined Community Films for U.S. representation. Thomas’ skills and expertise as a food stylist, photographer, writer, cook and lover of design, food and fashion all have contributed to her rise as a director. Her body of work is defined by an elegant use of light, polished realism and the capturing of food, people and objects in a beautiful, inviting and honest way. Her directorial credits span such brands as Visa, McCafe, Del Taco, Arby’s, Chick-Fil-A, TGI Friday’s, Nordstrom, Kraft, Pepperidge Farm, Sargento and Tropicana, and agencies including BBDO, McCann, The Richards Group, Deutsch, Camp + King, Crispin Porter + Bogusky, DDB, FCB, Leo Burnett, JWT, R/GA and Y&R.
Prior to joining Community Films, Thomas had been at production house WoodShop. She began her career as an assistant food stylist and personal chef. Thomas then moved on to write and shoot stills for Zagat and The Huffington Post. This prompted her to start her blog, The Kitchy Kitchen, as a way of sharing her love of food and design. She continues to write all the recipes, shoot all the stills and direct all the videos on the blog. Ultimately, this led to her commercial directing career, which began in 2011 working with McDonald’s. It also kick-started her nationally televised ABC TV show, Food for Thought with Claire Thomas, and her cookbook, "The Kitchy Kitchen," released by Simon & Schuster in late August 2014. Her second cookbook, which she photographed and co-authored, "Sweet Laurel: Whole Food, Grain Free Desserts," is being released on April 3, 2018 from Clarkson Potter.
“We absolutely loved Claire’s work the minute we saw it,” said Lizzie Schwartz, partner and executive producer, Community Films. “It’s beautiful and sophisticated, while at the same time so authentic and unpretentious. Food, and how people relate to it and enjoy it, are at the core of everything she creates, and she creates everything with amazing passion and dedication to her craft.”
Thomas has appeared on NBC’s Today Show and her work has been featured in Glamour Magazine, Town & Country, House Beautiful, O Magazine, Refinery 29, Vogue, Los Angeles Magazine, Domino, Darling, Lonny and USA Today.
In NBC’s “Brilliant Minds,” Zachary Quinto Plays Doctor–In A Role Inspired By Physician/Author Oliver Sacks
There's a great moment in the first episode of the new NBC medical drama "Brilliant Minds" when it becomes very clear that we're not dealing with a typical TV doctor.
Zachary Quinto is behind the wheel of a car barreling down a New York City parkway, packed with hospital interns, abruptly weaving in and out of lanes, when one of them asks, "Does anyone want to share a Klonopin?" — a drug sometimes used to treat panic disorders.
"Oh, glory to God, yes, please," says Quinto, reaching an arm into the back seat. The intern then breaks the pill in half and gives a sliver to the driver, who swallows it, as the other interns share stunned looks.
Quinto, playing the character Dr. Oliver Wolf, is clearly not portraying any dour, by-the-rules doctor here — he's playing a character inspired by Dr. Oliver Sacks, the path-breaking researcher and author who rose to fame in the 1970s and was once called the "poet laureate of medicine."
"He was someone who was tirelessly committed to the dignity of the human experience. And so I feel really grateful to be able to tell his story and to continue his legacy in a way that I hope our show is able to do," says Quinto.
He's a fern-loving doctor
"Brilliant Minds" takes Sack's personality — a motorcycle-riding, fern-loving advocate for mental health who died in 2015 at 82 — and puts him in the present day, where the creators theorize he would have no idea who Taylor Swift is or own a cell phone. The series debuts Monday on NBC, right after "The Voice."
"It's almost as if we're imagining what it would have been like if Oliver Sacks had been born at a different time," says Quinto. "We use the real life person as our North Star through everything we're doing and all the... Read More