Creative editorial shop Uppercut has added London-based editor Billy Mead to its roster for his first U.S. representation. Mead joins Uppercut with over two decades of experience as an editor in London, bringing with him a subtle approach to emotive storytelling that has earned him numerous global industry accolades. Mead has worked on spots for brands including Volvo, Domino’s, Google, Intel, and YouTube.
Mead learned his craft hands-on, working under the tutelage of renowned industry creative Walter Campbell while getting his start on the agency side at AMV BBDO. He shifted to continue working with Campbell at his own agency CDD, fine-tuning his editorial skills while collaborating with some of the top directors in the world. His work for Sainsbury’s holiday short film “Christmas in a Day” called for the gargantuan task of cutting together over 300 hours of user-generated content, resulting in a touching piece that earned him a Silver British Arrows Craft Award for “Best Edit.” He currently edits and runs his own boutique editorial shop in London, tenthree, which he has successfully grown over the past 11 years to include a roster of eight editors and a range of award-winning work across commercials and music videos.
“There is a certain synergy of working with a tight-knit group of people where everyone is invested in the same goals and creative vision and celebrates each other’s successes, and that is exactly what Micah (owner/editor Scarpelli) has built at Uppercut,” notes Mead. “I’m looking forward to joining such a collaborative roster of talent to work with U.S. clients.”
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