Client Decision To Change Ad Agencies Won't Impact This Year's Slate Of Short Films By Spot Directors Using 24p HD Cameras
By Robert Goldrich
NEW YORK --Despite the recent parting of ways between Sony Electronics and Young & Rubicam (Y&R), New York–with the account rumored at press time to be heading to Fallon Worldwide, Minneapolis–the 2005 “Dreams” project is proceeding as originally scheduled. According to a Sony Electronics’ spokesperson, the company’s Broadcast and Production Systems Division will continue to work with Y&R on the fourth annual “Dreams” program, which turns noted spot directors loose to reflect their creative vision in shorts lensed with Sony 24p HD cameras.
Several of the “Dreams” shorts have already been wrapped, with others in various stages. For example, director Jesse Dylan of Los Angeles-based Form has completed his short. Dylan succeeded Fredrik Bond of bicoastal/international MJZ who had to pull out of “Dreams” due to a scheduling conflict. (Bond was recently nominated for the coveted DGA Award for best commercial director of 2004. Noam Murro of Biscuit Filmworks wound up winning the DGA honor on January 29–SHOOT‘s e.dition, 2/4, p. 1.)
The ’05 lineup of “Dreams” directors consists of: Dylan; Samuel Bayer of bicoastal RSA USA; James Gartner of Santa Monica-based GARTNER; Alison Maclean of Park Pictures, New York; Doug Nichol of bicoastal/international Partizan; Hank Perlman of bicoastal/international Hungry Man; Jeffery Plansker of Supply & Demand, New York; Baker Smith of Santa Monica-based harvest; Charles Stone III of Brown Bag Films, New York; and the StyleWar collective, represented by bicoastal Smuggler.
This year’s series of “Dreams” shorts is slated to debut next month at the Ziegfeld Theater, New York. The ’05 “Dreams” theme is “Flight,” which was chosen by Ken Yagoda, who last month left his staff position as managing partner/director of broadcast production and creative resources at Y&R, New York (SHOOT‘s e.dition, 1/21, p. 1). Yagoda chose “Flight” because it has “more kinetic energy than our previous themes.” He said that this new thematic direction has provided a creatively inspiring change of pace as reflected in the shorts completed thus far.
Yagoda has been the point person on “Dreams” since its inaugural year of 2002. He continues to work on select assignments for Y&R, including “Dreams.”
As earlier reported, Rich Rosenthal assumed the Y&R, New York, director of broadcast production mantle from Yagoda. Rosenthal was promoted from associate director of broadcast production at the agency.
Additional reporting by Carolyn Giardina
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