Transatlantic creative production house Loveboat has signed Elena Parasco to its cooperative of directors and interdisciplinary artists. The company will represent her in the U.S. and France.
Born and raised in New York and a graduate of Wesleyan University, Parasco is known for her limit-pushing style of shooting. Parasco’s identifiable style and quick, cinematic lens define her approach to athemic, culture-saturated work that champions unheard global voices, while keeping viewers grounded in story. Her work ranges from setting a new style in her female gaze-driven breakout film downtowngirlsbball to pushing expectations for a league of athletes in the WNBA’s 2020 anthem “Make Way.”
Parasco has worked with numerous artists and brands, including Nike, Converse, Facebook, Levi’s, WNBA, A$AP Rocky, the New York Knicks, and the New York City Ballet. Her film and creative work have been featured in publications including The New York Times, T Magazine, Hypebeast, i-D magazine and Vice.
She was named a finalist in the 2018 ADC Young Guns for her creative portfolio. The One Screen New York Film Festival named Parasco a finalist for Best Branded Content of the Year for her film Locker Room Talk for Nike’s Air Force 1 campaign and in Experimental Filmmaking for her film downtowngirlsbball. Prior to joining Loveboat, Parasco was with production house Sibling Rivalry.
Parasco has spoken on panels such as The Force is Female for Nike and on the NBA All-Star Panel (2020) in Chicago, both of which brought powerful storytellers around the world to speak on the importance of inclusive voices within visual stories. Additionally, Parasco’s photographic work was included in a book and museum exhibition in Harlem, New York titled CITY GAME (2020), curated by Spike Lee.
“Loveboat is committed to creating the opportunities that commercial work provides to push the boundaries of both style and narrative within anthemic filmmaking,” said Parasco.
“Elena is a force with a keen eye, whose poetry on film champions athletes, women, and the unheard voices,” says Jeff Baron, managing partner of the L.A. office. “Our commitment is to mentorship and director development at Loveboat and Elena’s passion for storytelling is a perfect fit.”
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