Bicoastal Station Film has hired executive producer Leticia Gurjão, who will be based in the Los Angeles office. She brings an expertise in business development, production and sales, previously as director of business development at The Cavalry and Green Dot Films, where she worked for five years. At Cavalry she had a hand in helping to launch VR/AR company Spectacle.
“Station is my kind of production company: Fast-forward thinking,” Gurjão said. “They push boundaries creatively across multiple disciplines—digital, branded content and VR/AR—going beyond traditional broadcast commercials with an understanding that the story always comes first.”
“Leticia’s background in sales and marketing, brand development and production is a perfect fit for Station,” commented Stephen Orent, managing partner of Station Film. “Her understanding and experience with digital content, VR/AR and management strategy is already making an impression her first week here at Station.”
A native of Brazil, Gurjão studied Advertising at MacKenzie University in São Paulo. She immediately went on to producing films and worked at several media companies, including Zeppelin Films. She relocated to Los Angeles in 2008 and earned a Film Industry Business certificate from UCLA. Her experience also includes collaborations with ad agencies such as TBWA/Chiat/Day, 72andSunny, RPA, Leo Burnett, DDB, AlmapBBDO, Saatchi&Saatchi, Y&R, Publicis and O&M.
Rom-Com Mainstay Hugh Grant Shifts To The Dark Side and He’s Never Been Happier
After some difficulties connecting to a Zoom, Hugh Grant eventually opts to just phone instead.
"Sorry about that," he apologizes. "Tech hell." Grant is no lover of technology. Smart phones, for example, he calls the "devil's tinderbox."
"I think they're killing us. I hate them," he says. "I go on long holidays from them, three or four days at at time. Marvelous."
Hell, and our proximity to it, is a not unrelated topic to Grant's new film, "Heretic." In it, two young Mormon missionaries (Chloe East, Sophie Thatcher) come knocking on a door they'll soon regret visiting. They're welcomed in by Mr. Reed (Grant), an initially charming man who tests their faith in theological debate, and then, in much worse things.
After decades in romantic comedies, Grant has spent the last few years playing narcissists, weirdos and murders, often to the greatest acclaim of his career. But in "Heretic," a horror thriller from A24, Grant's turn to the dark side reaches a new extreme. The actor who once charmingly stammered in "Four Weddings and a Funeral" and who danced to the Pointer Sisters in "Love Actually" is now doing heinous things to young people in a basement.
"It was a challenge," Grant says. "I think human beings need challenges. It makes your beer taste better in the evening if you've climbed a mountain. He was just so wonderfully (expletive)-up."
"Heretic," which opens in theaters Friday, is directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, co-writers of "A Quiet Place." In Grant's hands, Mr. Reed is a divinely good baddie — a scholarly creep whose wry monologues pull from a wide range of references, including, fittingly, Radiohead's "Creep."
In an interview, Grant spoke about these and other facets of his character, his journey... Read More