Christopher Hutsul, a Toronto-based director known for his comedy acumen, has joined @radical.media for U.S. representation. His body of work spans such clients as IKEA, ING, Toyota, Nike, Kia, Skoda and Mitsubishi. For the latter, he directed “Electriphobia” which earned a Bronze Cyber Lion at the 2013 Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. Prior to coming aboard the @radical roster, Hutsul was handled in the U.S. by Park Pictures. He continues to be repped in Canada by production house Soft Citizen.
Hutsul took a circuitous route to the director’s chair. After graduating with honors from the fine arts program at Ontario College of Art and Design, Hutsul became a staff writer at The Toronto Star, Canada’s largest daily newspaper. His columns focused on technology, art and pop culture.
In 2007 he transitioned to the film production world, where he emerged as a commercial director. That same year on the strength of some early ad fare, he gained inclusion into SHOOT’s Up-and-Coming Directors series. In 2009 for his work on a film celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Nike Air Force One shoe, Hutsul earned a slot in Saatchi & Saatchi’s New Directors Showcase at Cannes.
Hutsul’s aesthetic is at once irreverent and good-hearted. He draws inspiration from the comedy of real life and infuses it with an element of playful absurdity, dating back to his commercial directing debut with a charmingly outrageous campaign for The Hargrave Pub out of agency Lowe Roche, Toronto. Hutsul draws on his experience in fine art to inform his production design and his background in writing to craft his narratives.
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