Berlin-based director Mario Clement has joined the directorial roster of Chromista, marking his first U.S. commercial signing. His body of work spans spots, documentaries, portrait films and music videos.
Clement has won Bronze at Cannes Lions for his work with Audi and the film “Mission to the Moon–Part Time Scientists,” and a Silver Stevie at the German Stevie Awards for the Red Bull ad “REMADE.” His additional commercial collaborations include brands like BMW, Volkswagen, Adidas, Nike, and Oakley. The Brazilian-German director has also created sophisticated and memorable music videos for popular German artists as well as international talent like David Guetta, James Arthur, Lena, and Casper.
A testament to his passion for filmmaking and curiosity about new frontiers in creative expression, Clement is the creative director for the German startup CHAPTR, a company harnessing artificial intelligence in synthetic media. During his tenure at CHAPTR, he immersed himself in the field for six months, aggregating data and delving into AI-based storytelling.
Clement said of joining Chromista: “I am thrilled and honored to embark on this American journey with some of my absolute cinematic heroes. At Chromista, creativity thrives on empathy, trust, and deep human connections. Their taste in visual and narrative artistry and appetite for innovation is a wonderful energy to be around. This is deeply personal to me, and I can’t wait for what’s to come.“
Jeff Baron, managing director and partner of Chromista, added, “Mario’s films are uniformly captivating. Whether bombastic and visually exciting or intimate and deep, he has a unique style and an eye for extracting moments from the mundane.”
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