Cutters has promoted Kristin Gerhart to editor. The announcement was made by executive producer Megan Dahlman and executive producer/partner Craig Duncan.
Gerhart landed with Cutters in Chicago soon after earning her B.A. from Columbia College Chicago in 2008. Beginning as an assistant editor honing her craft alongside the company’s highly regarded editors, she relocated to California in 2012. “She has been cutting for the last year with clients,” noted Dahlman, “so we decided it was time to make it official.”
In the commercial realm, Gerhart has edited campaigns for BCBG, CVS Health, Esurance, Jack In The Box, Kellogg’s, and Toyota, among many others. According to Duncan, not only is she actively sought-after for projects happening all across America, she is also largely responsible for earning many ongoing assignments related to network television upfront presentations.
Currently busy preparing presentations for dozens of new network dramas and comedies for ABC Television, Gerhart said, “I honestly love working on a wide variety of projects: documentary-style, montage, drama and comedy. For me, I just love to tell a story in the best way possible. I’ve edited commercials and films that are everything from comedy to crime dramas and even sci-fi.”
Following her interests, she has recently edited director Anthony Vietro’s narrative feature film “Collusions,” which is set to debut later this year, as well as director Raphael Rogers’ dramatic short “Revelations: The Fall” and the half-hour documentary “The Chain” from director Scott Weintrob.
“The Chain is about altruistic kidney donors starting off a chain reaction by paying it forward,” Gerhart continued. “I engulfed myself in that project for several months as I pieced it together from over 50 hours of footage. After screening at the American Documentary Film Festival and elsewhere, many donations were made to UCLA and the National Kidney Registry because of it. There’s something really fun in the challenge of being handed a project with 30-50 hours of footage and no script and turning it into something beautiful with a powerful message.”
At Cutters LA, Gerhart joins staff editors Chris Hafner, Barnett Kiel, Jacob Kuehl and Adam Parker, each of whom is available for projects anywhere through any of Cutters’ facilities.
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