Soho based, award winning commercials and longform visual effects studio Freefolk has promoted Cheryl Payne from sr. producer to head of commercials production, and hired Laura Rickets as sr. producer and 2D artist Bradley Cockesdge who is now part of the commercials VFX team.
Payne has been with Freefolk from almost its inception. She has worked on some of the company’s biggest commercials to date, including Warburtons for Engine, Peloton for Dark Horses and Cadburys for VCCP.
Rickets has over 18 years of production experience and has worked at leading VFX studios including Framestore, The Mill and Smoke & Mirrors as well as on the agency side for McCann.
Since joining the team, Rickets has VFX produced the I’m A Celebrity idents, a set of seven technically challenging, CG heavy spots for the new series of the show as well as ads for the Rugby World Cup and Who Wants to Be A Millionaire?.
Cockesdge comes over from Framestore where he was working on Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes Of Grindelwald. He came to Freefolk originally straight from Hertfordshire University where he studied Visual Effects for Film and Television. His film Downfall was the UH animation Expose 2019 Grand Prix Winner (Best Film) and “Visual Effects Film of the Year” by the Rookies.
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