SHOOTonline will publish a Special Directors >e.dition on Monday, October 21, that will contain the entire Directors Series section from SHOOT‘s October 18th print issue.
The lineup of Director Profiles includes several Oscar contenders, including Paul Greengrass for Captain Phillips, Brian Percival for The Book Thief, J.C. Chandor for All Is Lost, Scott Cooper for Out of the Furnace, and Ben Stiller for The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.
Also in the Profile mix are: Drake Doremus of B-Reel, a lauded feature filmmaker (Like Crazy, the 2011 Sundance Grand Jury Dramatic Prize winner) whose The Beauty Inside for Intel/Toshiba went on to earn three Grand Prix honors (Film, Branded Content & Entertainment, and Cyber) at the 2013 Cannes International Festival of Creativity; Nicolai Fuglsig of MJZ who directed this year’s primetime commercial Emmy Award winner, Canon’s “Inspired” for Grey NY; and John X. Carey, who recently joined Tool of North America, scoring impressively at Cannes this year with Dove’s “Real Beauty Sketches” which garnered the Titanium Grand Prix and an Integrated Gold Lion for Ogilvy Brazil, as well as more than 56 million views on YouTube.
Our Directors section also includes the latest installment of our Cinematographers & Cameras Series which this time around features Barry Ackroyd, BSC, who shot Captain Phillips; Anthony Dod Mantle, ASC, BSC, who lensed Rush, the Ron Howard-directed feature generating early Oscar buzz; and Adam Arkapaw who won the primetime Emmy for Best Cinematography in a Miniseries or Movie on the strength of BBC/Sundance TV’s Top Of The Lake.
And our featured Up-and-Coming Directors rundown includes: an actress/writer who has successfully diversified into filmmaking; a SHOOT New Directors Showcase helmer who just landed his first production company roost; another director who just missed the Showcase cut but has seen his career continue to progress; a music video director who shows promise as a commercialmaker; a spot director Down Under who has moved stateside; a production company principal who initially served as a DP to his shop’s roster of directors only to later gain momentum as a director himself; a comedian, radio show host and former producer of the TV series Monk who recently gained his first commercial production house representation; and an artisan from Spain who’s extending her creative reach into the U.S. market.
Plus we have two sponsored content profiles in which directors Jay Patton of Dictionary Films and James Lipetzky of Foundation Content reflect on their most significant, creative challenging work this year, as well as lessons learned about the business and/or themselves based on their experience/projects in 2013.
Also appearing in the 10/21 >e.dition will be the Street Talk, Flash Back, and Rep Report columns.
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