Director Jeff Tomsic has joined L.A.-based Community Films for U.S. representation. Tomsic is a well-regarded feature film and TV director whose extensive credits include the feature film Tag and episodes of both Broad City and the TBS comedy series The Detour. He has also been making commercials for several years, helming work for brands including Jeep, Speed Stick, Miller, Hasbro and Dr. Pepper.
He recently completed his first work for Community Films, a spot for LensCrafters featuring Sharon Stone that was shot in San Francisco. Stone was named the new face of the eyewear brand’s “Your Eyes First” campaign earlier this year.
Prior to connecting with Community Films, Tomsic was last repped in the advertising arena by Go Film.
Lizzie Schwartz, partner/executive producer at Community Films, said of Tomsic, “It’s a pleasure to be part of his passion for the craft of creating a story, which is only matched by his great rapport with talent, agency and clients alike.”
Tomsic was inspired to direct movies when his father accidentally brought home a copy of John Carpenter’s 1982 horror film The Thing when he was just nine. Tomsic explained that his father thought it was the 1951 Howard Hawkes sci-fi film The Thing From Another World and not a film that came by its R-rating honestly. It would prove a major catalyst for his subsequent career.
Tomsic’s short film I’m Having a Difficult Time Killing My Parents debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in 2011, and he also worked as a director and executive producer on the Comedy Central series Idiotsitter and This is Not Happening. Prior to directing commercials, he worked with MTV, first as a producer and then director of integrated marketing.
Tomsic made his feature film debut with 2018’s Tag, an adaption of a real-life story about men who played a game of tag for three decades. The film starred Jeremy Renner (who recently appeared in a Jeep ad directed by Tomsic), Jon Hamm, Ed Helms and Hannibal Buress.
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