Pulse Films has added Rodrigo Saavedra, to its U.S. commercial and music video directorial roster.
Originally from Rio de Janeiro, Saavedra has collaborated with an array of global brands including Coca-Cola, Heineken, Corona, Honda, VW, Facebook, Dropbox, and the Francis Ford Coppola Winery. He has garnered awards from D&AD, The One Show, Cannes Lions, 1.4 awards, AICP, Berlin Commercial, UKMVA, and MVF.
In the U.K. Rodrigo is represented by his own production company, Immigrant. Pulse and Immigrant will now jointly represent Saavedra in the U.K. music videos sphere, where he has collaborated with luminaries such as Selena Gomez, DJ Snake, Céu, and Niki & The Dove.
Mino Jarjoura, global president of commercials and music videos at Pulse Films, commented, “I have been watching Rodrigo’s career bloom since working together in Marseilles. We are still debating who instigated a tussle with a group of local pickpockets. I am absolutely thrilled to collaborate with Rodrigo at Pulse. His nuanced level of detail and boundless imagination are seamlessly interwoven in story, style, and character. A truly unique filmmaker, he has a vision, working alongside him promises to be an inspiring journey,:
Saavedra said, “When Mino first contacted me, he already knew I was a Flamengo supporter. That says a lot about him. Instead of the cliché ‘I love your work’, he tapped into culture to find common ground. And to me that’s what Pulse is about. They’re a company that champions culture, going beyond the norms of advertising, and when they do traditional ads they make sure that it seeps into the pop realm.”
Before assuming the director’s chair, he honed his craft as an art director and copywriter at advertising agencies such as Mother London, WCRS, and Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam. Prior to joining Pulse, Saavedra had most recently repped as director in the U.S. advertising market by The Directors Bureau.
Pulse’s branded division is represented by Hustle on the East Coast, Stephanie Stephens Reps on the West Coast, The House of Representatives in the Midwest and by Hands for music videos.
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