Hannah Bellil has been appointed global head of Stink Rising, the division formed in 2018 by Stink Films to nurture an international roster of up-and-coming directors and photographers. Based out of Stink Films London, she will report directly into the company’s managing partner and global head of talent, Blake Powell. Bellil comes over from RANKIN where she served as an executive producer.
Bellil, who’s British, began her career in Melbourne, Australia, as an events and PR manager, festival producer and fashion editor. She cut her production teeth in 2014, since producing international work across the U.S., Japan, South Africa, Italy, Spain, France, Germany, Canada, Iceland and Australia with top tier advertising agencies, creative and digital agencies, record labels and direct to brand. In 2017 she moved back to the U.K. and accepted the full-time role of producer at PRETTYBIRD. After nearly four years with the production house, Bellil joined the creative agency RANKIN as an EP while also heading up its in-house production company and talent roster, The Graft.
Her work has received many festival wins and nominations during the course of her career including recognition from Raindance, Kinsale, MVA’s, the London Fashion Film Festival, Australian International Fashion Film Festival and Berlin Fashion Film Festival. Bellil has worked with such brands as Burberry, Gucci, FarFetch, VSCO, H&M, The Bodyshop, Disney, NIKE, NHS, Ebay, Charles Jeffrey, SHOWstudio, GQ, Nowness and Dazed.
Bellil will be responsible for the global strategic oversight of Stink Rising, driving excellence and growth, while identifying and nurturing talent across the network; helping them and their production team to create exciting and progressive work.
Stink Rising has a track record of successfully introducing filmmakers to the advertising market as such directors as Douglas Bernadt, Matilda Finn, Felix Brady and Eoin Glaister have gained recognition globally. Across the Rising roster there have been assorted awards, from MVA best director (for Finn) to D&AD Pencils, Creative Circle and YDA nominations and wins. Stink Films was awarded most creative production company in this years Circle awards, and Rising gained silver in best production at the YDAs this year.
Review: Writer-Director Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substance”
In its first two hours, "The Substance" is a well-made, entertaining movie. Writer-director Coralie Fargeat treats audiences to a heavy dose of biting social commentary on ageism and sexism in Hollywood, with a spoonful of sugar- and sparkle-doused body horror.
But the film's deliciously unhinged, blood-soaked and inevitably polarizing third act is what makes it unforgettable.
What begins as a dread-inducing but still relatively palatable sci-fi flick spirals deeper into absurdism and violence, eventually erupting — quite literally — into a full-blown monster movie. Let the viewer decide who the monster is.
Fargeat — who won best screenplay at this year's Cannes Film Festival — has been vocal about her reverence for "The Fly" director David Cronenberg, and fans of the godfather of body horror will see his unmistakable influence. But "The Substance" is also wholly unique and benefits from Fargeat's perspective, which, according to the French filmmaker, has involved extensive grappling with her own relationship to her body and society's scrutiny.
"The Substance" tells the story of Elisabeth Sparkle, a famed aerobics instructor with a televised show, played by a powerfully vulnerable Demi Moore. Sparkle is fired on her 50th birthday by a ruthless executive — a perfectly cast Dennis Quaid, who nails sleazy and gross.
Feeling rejected by a town that once loved her and despairing over her bygone star power, Sparkle learns from a handsome young nurse about a black-market drug that promises to create a "younger, more beautiful, more perfect" version of its user. Though she initially tosses the phone number in the trash, she soon fishes it out in a desperate panic and places an order.
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