Los York Films, the film discipline of creative studio Los York, has signed Audrey Ellis Fox to its directorial roster, marking her first official representation for commercial work. Ellis Fox is an empathetic and highly skillful director of actors, having once been on the other side of the camera, and her extensive background in theater and visual arts informs her unique immersive vision, which transports viewers to other realms.
A former line-producer, Ellis Fox has written, directed and produced for clients such as Amazon, Epic Records, Sony, Vogue/Conde Nast, Lululemon, The CW, Reddit, Real Madrid, Bose, Columbia Records, Snap, Mike’s Hard Lemonade, Republic Records, Skullcandy, Warner Records, Atlantic Records, and many more. She is an experienced music video director, nominated for an MTV VMA for her directing work for Avril Lavigne, Travis Barker, and Blackbear in 2022.
Ellis Fox is currently in development for her debut feature. Her shorts Retreat and Patricia Drive played at Oscar-qualifying festivals around the country including Hollyshorts, LA Shorts, Urbanworld (HBO), Rhode Island International Film Festival, Maryland Film Festival, and SLIFF. Her writing accomplishments include features Scam (Sundance Development Track second round), Real Talk (Page International Screenwriting Awards Semi-Finalist) and Holy Dumpling! (Sundance YouTube New Voices Lab second round).
“Audrey’s versatility as an artist, musician, performer and director is beyond impressive,” said Seth Epstein, Los York Founder/ECD. “She brings a new emerging voice, attitude, energy and perspective to Los York. She has an essential quality and spirit, I would call it a cine qua non–pun intended–that separates her from many other filmmakers of her generation. Her knowledge of cinema is encyclopedic and passionate. Just ask her about her favorite classic noir films. And she translates that knowledge and experience into her own unique vision and style of storytelling.”
Ellis Fox shared, “As a longtime admirer of Los York’s interdisciplinary and elevated approach to storytelling, I am thrilled to join forces. As a director, I strive to create bold films that are both highly stylized and narratively compelling; my passion lies in crafting surreal and thought-provoking works that playfully challenge our senses. I am excited to have found an ideal collaborator in Los York, who shares my ethos for pushing creative boundaries and driving innovation.”
A third generation Angeleno, Ellis Fox received her Bachelor of Arts in modern culture and media from Brown University (interdisciplinary cinematic studies). She also studied at Rhode Island School of Design, University of California, Los Angeles and the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, Czech Republic.
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