Director Ninian Doff has joined RESET for worldwide representation spanning commercials, branded content and music videos.
Doff, whose body of work encompasses spots, music videos and feature filmmaking, is celebrated for his deft cinematic approach, effortlessly intertwining comedy with the surreal. Doff’s career made a major ascent in 2017 when he won Music Video Director of the Year at the MVAs for his infamous promo for Run the Jewels’ “Love Again” trumped only by his acclaimed follow up video “Genghis Kahn” for Miike Snow. Since then Doff has gone on shoot a multiplicity of music videos including the The Chemical Brothers’ epic “We’ve Got to Try.”
Doff’s work caught the eye of the advertising world, leading to a string of blockbuster commercials for brands such as THREE, O2, Cadbury’s, his iconic music video crossover for Mars Temptations featuring a symphony of singing cats, ITV’s Veg Power, and his Dickensian Christmas epic “Nicholas the Sweep” for Sainsbury’s. Prior to joining RESET, Doff had been represented by Pulse Films.
In 2019 Doff debuted his feature film Get Duked, the story of teenagers lost in the Scottish Highlands who are stalked by a group of aristocratic psychopaths led by Eddie Izzard. After earning the SXSW Jury Prize, the film launched on Amazon Prime Video to critical acclaim, sparking yet another collaboration with Run the Jewels in a music video spin off “Out of Sight” featuring 2Chainz.
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