Director Max Joseph has joined bicoastal production studio m ss ng p eces for worldwide representation spanning commercials, branded content and music videos. Joseph is best known for his unique style in documentary and video projects that highlight social consciousness through his singular voice.
An award-winning filmmaker and writer, Joseph has over 100 films to his name including feature fare (We Are Your Friends), viral videos, commercials, and documentary projects. His non-fiction work has been featured at Sundance, Telluride, SXSW, and the Cannes Creativity Festival. He is also well known for his seven years co-hosting and executive producing MTV’s Catfish: The TV Show. Recently he teamed up with Monica Lewinsky to direct and executive produce the documentary 15 Minutes of Shame, which premiered October 6 on HBO Max to critical acclaim and has 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. His brand work includes “Follow the Frog” for the Rainforest Alliance, “Persistence of Vision” for Samsung, and the documentary short “Too Old To Be New Too New to Be Classic” for Red Bull Music Academy, which profiled the DFA Records music label. Prior to coming aboard the m ss ng p eces roster, Joseph had been repped in the ad arena by Hungry Man.
“Max and I have been friends and collaborators for a decade. We are both believers in the power of storytelling and how it influences culture in powerful ways. We collaborated early in our careers and have been trying to find a way to work together ever since, so we’re thrilled to have him join the m ss n g p eces roster,” said Ari Kuschnir, founder of m ss ng p eces. “Max has an iconic storytelling style and a huge online following, so we’re looking to support his creative ideas and find the right brand partners for them. We are also actively pursuing new blockchain technologies that support the creator model, where Max’s fans can be a part of his creations in a direct way.”
“Ari and the m ss ng p eces team have always had a great perspective on media and where things are headed–they’re very attuned to new creative pathways and business models and are always at the forefront of brand storytelling,” shared Joseph. “Our values really overlap on both the business side and the personal side in terms of storytelling, style, and shared priorities for our world.”
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