Bicoastal Saville Productions has signed film director and Vanity Fair special correspondent Matt Tyrnauer for exclusive representation in commercials and branded content.
Tyrnauer is perhaps best known for this year’s breakout documentary feature Valentino: The Last Emperor, a film that focuses on the relationship between Valentino, the flamboyant fashion icon, and his partner in life and in business, the enigmatic Giancarlo Giammetti.
For 16 years Tyrnauer has been an editor and writer for Vanity Fair magazine, where his feature articles included profiles of Martha Stewart, Siegfried and Roy, Tommy Hilfiger, Philippe Starck, Frank Gehry, green design pioneer William McDonough, producer Robert Evans, and writer Bret Easton Ellis. In 2004, Tyrnauer profiled Italian fashion designer Valentino and developed a strong rapport with him. Having long harbored ideas of returning to film, which he had studied at Wesleyan University in Connecticut, Tyrnauer got Valentino’s permission to make a documentary about him.
Shot with restraint and simple style, Valentino uses a cinema vérité approach to capture the lives and lifestyles of Valentino and Giammetti. By now most of the fashion fluent have seen the comical canine clip from the documentary that has made its rounds on the web, but in fact, the film goes beyond the surface of Valentino’s over-the-top glamour. Valentino is a warts-and-all portrait that digs deep into one of the industry’s greatest partnerships–at times to the subjects’ discomfort. Tyrnauer captured the glory of Valentino’s 45th anniversary, the bittersweetness of his decision to retire, and the end of the alta moda era with the sale of VFG to private equity firm Permira. But in the end it is the duo’s unique relationship that takes center stage.
The movie premiered to an audience of 1,500 at the Venice Film Festival. Tyrnauer described the film as being “a universal story. It just happens to be about fashion. It wouldn’t matter if they were two walnut farmers living near Mount Vesuvius. That’s the key to all film projects–documentaries, features or commercials–to find a story that touches everyone.”
“Matt has remarkable observational skills and filmmaking expertise,” related Johnny Doran, Saville’s executive producer. Doran said the director has “an enviable knowledge about the positioning of brands, in particular luxury brands, making him an ideal partner to collaborate with on commercials and branded content projects.”
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