Jerry Rig, an independent production shop, has hired Katie Matson-Walker as executive producer. Matson-Walker was previously production director at Publicis Groupe’s Razorfish and is a specialist in transmedia brand storytelling and content production. Prior to that, she helped build he NY office of San Francisco-based Mekanism, a digital and social media agency. She began her career as a producer at Believe Media working with A-List directors.
In her new role, she’ll be responsible for branded-content video production across all Jerry Rig clients, which include Mike’s Hard Lemonade, ConAgra, Kawasaki and Kimberly-Clark. Walker reports to Gary Curtin, VP of marketing operations.
Matson-Walker has produced award-winning commercials, web films, documentaries, music videos and social-media campaigns for top global brands including AT&T, ESPN, GE, Mac Cosmetics, Samsung, and Stella Artois. Her work has been recognized by the Webbys, the One Show and FWA.
Juliette Welfling Takes On A Musical, A Crime Thriller, Comedy and Drama In “Emelia Pérez”
Editor Juliette Welfling has a track record of close-knit, heartfelt collaboration with writer-director Jacques Audiard, a four-time BAFTA Award nominee for Best Film not in the English Language--starting with The Beat That My Heart Skipped in 2006, then A Prophet in 2010, Rust and Bone in 2013, and Dheepan in 2017. He won for The Beat That My Heart Skipped and A Prophet.
Welfling cut three of those features: A Prophet, Rust and Bone, and Dheepan. And that shared filmography has since grown to most recently include Emelia Pérez, the Oscar buzz-worthy film from Netflix. Welfling herself is not stranger to Academy Award banter. In fact, she earned a Best Achievement in Film Editing Oscar nomination in 2008 for director Julian Schnabel’s The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.
Emelia Pérez is a hybrid musical/drama/thriller which introduces us to a talented but undervalued lawyer named Rita (portrayed by Zoe Saldana) who receives a lucrative offer out of the blue from a feared drug cartel boss who’s looking to retire from his sordid business and disappear forever by becoming the woman he’s always dreamt of being (Karla SofÃa Gascón in a dual role as Manitas Del Monte/Emilia Pérez). Rita helps pull this off, orchestrating the faked death of Del Monte who leaves behind a widow (Jessi, played by Selena Gomez) and kids. While living comfortably and contently in her/their new identity, Pérez misses the children. Pérez once again enlists Rita--this time to return to family life, reuniting with the kids by pretending to be their aunt, the sister of Del Monte. Now as an aunt, Pérez winds up adopting a more altruistic bent professionally,... Read More