Editor Mischa Meyer has joined the roster at the New York office of Spot Welders, the company founded by editor Robert Duffy and executive producer David Glean. Born and raised in Germany, this marks Meyer’s first roster spot on an editorial company in the U.S.
Meyer has edited spots and ad content for a wide range of brands, including Mercedes-Benz, VW, Audi, Jeep, Axe, Kia, Hennessey, Coca Cola, Red Bull, UBS and T-Mobile. His list of agency clients includes DDB, BBDO, M&C Saatchi and Leo Burnett, and his work has been honored at festivals ranging from the Clios here in the States to the Art Directors Club of Europe.
As an editor he’s worked all over the world, from the Middle East and Europe to South Africa and Latin America. He recently flew to Bogota, Columbia to edit on site for a Bacardi project for The Barbarian Group, one of several jobs he’s already edited at Spot Welders.
He connected with Spot Welders via his agent in Berlin, who’s friends with Joanne Ferraro, Spot Welders’ New York EP. Interested in working in the U.S., Meyer flew to Los Angeles to meet with Glean and other members of the staff, then came to New York to spend time in the office there. This laid the groundwork for his joining the shop.
While his background in production is varied–he got his start making skateboarding videos, then worked his way up through the production ranks in Germany–Meyer says that for him, editorial is the essence of filmmaking. “That’s where everything comes together,” he noted.
Meyer’s entry into advertising came largely via his work editing music videos in Germany, Meyer explained, as many of the directors he worked with came out of commercials.
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