Production and content company Wild Gift has added director Jordan Fein to its roster for representation spanning commercials, branded content and music videos. He has worked with such agencies as Grey, BBDO and McCann, as well as brands including Verizon, Volvo, Land Rover and Squarespace. Prior to joining Wild Gift, Fein had most recently been represented by production house Alkemy X.
A visual storytelling and documentary director who specializes in authentic and stylized character-driven projects and films, the Texas-born Fein is an alumnus of the NYU Film program, has won a Silver and two Bronze Lions at Cannes in addition to recognition at The One Show, Clio and Telly Awards. Fein’s commercial work has been featured on the Super Bowl. He and Hunter Baker directed the documentary feature The Blessing, which received prizes at numerous film festivals and was acquired by PBS, WORLD and NHK.
Fein was drawn to Wild Gift by the opportunity to work with executive producer David Mitchell and his team. “I not only admire the crew but have the utmost respect for the company’s work in the industry,” said Fein. “I look forward to bringing a tactful approach that is rooted in empathy, and experience across all formats of production with Wild Gift partners.”
Wild Gift is represented by Pop-Arts on the West Coast, The House of Representatives in the Midwest, and MilkToast on the East Coast.
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