Bicoastal creative content company Chromista has brought Jeff Baron aboard as partner/managing director.
Previously, Baron co-founded Loveboat–a creative content production company with offices in Los Angeles and Paris–alongside indie director Nicolas Winding Refn. There, Baron served as managing partner, leading the Los Angeles office to produce award winning independent projects encompassing advertising and entertainment. Under Loveboat’s banner, Baron oversaw productions helmed by such directors as Tino, Elena Parasco, and Refn himself.
Before co-founding Loveboat, Baron served as managing director for Stink in the U.S.; and was a sr. executive producer at Anonymous Content, where he worked for over 13 years. Baron’s body of work includes steering projects helmed by some of the industry’s most visionary directors, including David Fincher, Traktor, Frank Budgen, and Alejandra G. Iñárritu.
“Jeff’s stellar reputation and well-documented successes reflect our business ethos,” said Ted Robbins, Chromista founding partner and EP. “He’s deeply connected to brands, and agencies, has exquisite taste, and works tirelessly to nurture and support directing talent. His commitment to building trust and communication between clients and creators will be a valuable addition to the Chromista family.”
Chromista is the brainchild of Oscar-nominated director Darren Aronofsky (The Whale, Black Swan).
“My aim is always to build relationships, recognize creative potential, and shepherd the production of groundbreaking new work,” said Baron. “Chromista’s vision as a company is incredibly fertile ground for fearlessness in growing talent and producing work. I look forward to being a part of that process.”
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