Editor Charlie Harvey, currently based at Whitehouse Post in London, is moving to the company’s L.A. office. Harvey is already familiar with her new roost as she’s been making increasingly frequent trips to the West Coast to cut spots for such brands as Adidas and Gatorade. Earlier this year, Harvey won an Editorial category honor at the AICP Show for her work on Powerade's “There’s Power in Every Game–Nico’s Story.”
Harvey began her career as an editor at M&C Saatchi and spent three years at Willcox & Willcox before joining Whitehouse Post in 2007. Known for her kinetic editing style, she has built an impressive reel working for brands such as Nike, FIFA, INTERSPORT, Foot Locker, Volkswagen, and Pepsi. Through her work for agencies including TBWAChiatDay, 72andSunny, BBDO, and Wieden+Kennedy she has forged relationships with directors AG Rojas, James Frost, The Malloys, and Tristan Patterson.
Harvey’s portfolio spans a wide variety of mediums including commercials, a feature, music videos, and documentaries. In addition to the AICP Show win, Harvey’s work has been awarded at the D&AD Awards and The One Show.
Review: Writer-Director Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substance”
In its first two hours, "The Substance" is a well-made, entertaining movie. Writer-director Coralie Fargeat treats audiences to a heavy dose of biting social commentary on ageism and sexism in Hollywood, with a spoonful of sugar- and sparkle-doused body horror.
But the film's deliciously unhinged, blood-soaked and inevitably polarizing third act is what makes it unforgettable.
What begins as a dread-inducing but still relatively palatable sci-fi flick spirals deeper into absurdism and violence, eventually erupting — quite literally — into a full-blown monster movie. Let the viewer decide who the monster is.
Fargeat — who won best screenplay at this year's Cannes Film Festival — has been vocal about her reverence for "The Fly" director David Cronenberg, and fans of the godfather of body horror will see his unmistakable influence. But "The Substance" is also wholly unique and benefits from Fargeat's perspective, which, according to the French filmmaker, has involved extensive grappling with her own relationship to her body and society's scrutiny.
"The Substance" tells the story of Elisabeth Sparkle, a famed aerobics instructor with a televised show, played by a powerfully vulnerable Demi Moore. Sparkle is fired on her 50th birthday by a ruthless executive — a perfectly cast Dennis Quaid, who nails sleazy and gross.
Feeling rejected by a town that once loved her and despairing over her bygone star power, Sparkle learns from a handsome young nurse about a black-market drug that promises to create a "younger, more beautiful, more perfect" version of its user. Though she initially tosses the phone number in the trash, she soon fishes it out in a desperate panic and places an order.
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