International production company Stink Films has added Brazilian directing duo the Fridman Sisters to its U.S. roster for commercials and music videos. This marks the Fridman Sisters’ first representation in the American market.
Lina and Maira Fridman won Silver at the Young Director Awards this year with “The Doll I’ve Never Asked For,” a project for Nike out of Wieden+Kennedy, São Paulo. They were also finalists at The Art Director’s Club Young Guns awards and won the On The Cusp of Greatness award at 1.4. They’ve directed for brands such as Volkswagen, McDonald’s, and Ambev, as well as music videos and short films.
With seven years of experience as production designers, mixed with their extensive global travels, the Fridman Sisters create magical dreamlike worlds that reinvent reality through meticulously detailed art direction. The result of a wildly imaginative childhood with their artist parents, their home was the perfect lab for their early creative experiments. They went on to attend film school together where they were inspired by early silent films and highly surreal animation.
A joint statement from the sisters read, “We love to add our own twist to everyday life, an uncommon way of portraying reality. We’re over the moon to join Stink Films and take such a big step forward in our careers.”
“The Fridman Sisters are exceptional people,” said Daniel Bergmann, founder of Stink Films. “From the very first minute that we met there was a positively natural and intriguing creative chemistry. It’s very exciting to see what our partnership will bring. They have huge potential and we are eager to grow their talent within music videos, advertising, as well as developing original long-form work.”
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