SixTwentySix has added director Jonathan Salmon to its roster for commercial, music video, and long-form work. This marks the young filmmaker’s first formal representation in the U.S.
Born and bred in Seattle, Salmon is a self-taught talent who discovered an affinity and gift for art and film in his early 20s during a project collaboration with a friend before ultimately relocating to Los Angeles to actively pursue his filmmaking career.
Salmon has a shooting style that exhibits a passionate desire to support the truth and its community in any film he creates. His main goal with any piece he directs is always steadfastly aiming to keep every performance authentic to the material, pushing the narrative with “life forward” as the forefront mantra in his craft. This approach is the cornerstone for films and commercials that Salmon has done for the likes of Venus Williams, Lacoste, Apple Music, Amazon, Highsnobiety, Beats By Dre, On Running and Lexus.
Salmon has also directed assorted music-driven projects including the campaign for the NFT-inspired app S!ng, NPR’s Tiny Desk concert featuring DUCKWRTH, and multiple music videos for Vince Staples, Tove Lo, and others.
As for what drew him to the SixTwentySix team, Salmon shared, “It’s so simple–I like them, they like me, we like each other. It’s fun, great, amazing, and quite frankly–I just love them–there’s not much more to it than that!”
Jake Krask, SixTwentySix co-founder and managing director, said, “We’re very honored to have Jonathan join our SixTwentySix family. We are greatly looking forward to working with him and championing his already impressive filmmaking career.”
Added Austin Barbera, SixTwentySix co-founder and executive producer, “We’ve had the immense pleasure to work with and support the careers of talented new filmmakers, and are elated to represent Jonathan. He is an exceptional talent whose storytelling conveys a raw and relatable authenticity that emboldens and inspires audiences.”
In his short career, Salmon’s rise has been steady and rapid. Most recently, Salmon has directed four music videos for comedian, rapper, and actor Zack Fox’s new extended play (EP) record “Wood Tip.” Upcoming, Salmon has collaborated with Fox (a cast member of the Emmy Award-winning Abbott Elementary) on Bizarro World, a comedic, surreal, and sometimes dramatic six-part short film series with several unrelated, absurd, and quick stories. In addition to Fox, Bizarro World stars Jak Knight (HBO Max’s Pause with Sam Jay, Peacock’s Bust Down), Mekki Leeper (HBO Max’s The Sex Lives of College Girls, Comedy Central’s Control Room), and Kate Hollowell (Katy Perry: Champagne Problems).
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