Director Zoe Cassavetes has joined the roster of production house Little Minx for commercial representation. Her work spans features, shorts, music videos, TV and advertising. Cassavetes was previously repped by RSA for spots.
Beginning her career in TV, Cassavetes collaborated with Sofia Coppola to create and host the Comedy Central sketch show Hi-Octane. Cassavetes then went on to host MTV’s House of Style, a role that evolved into a longtime career in fashion shooting with designers and brands like Louis Vuitton, Chaumet, Juicy Couture, Old Navy, LaMarthe, Martel, and Petit Bateau.
Turning her sights to film, Cassavetes directed the short Men Make Women Crazy Theory which opened to broad acclaim at its Sundance premiere. Her debut feature, Broken English starring Parker Posey, premiered at Sundance in 2007 and was nominated for Best First Screenplay and Best Female Lead at the Spirit Awards. While in Paris, Cassavetes expanded her portfolio to include print, producing work for The New York Times, Elle, Dom Perignon, Stiletto, Italian Glamour, Air France Madame, and Liberation.
“Zoe is broadly experienced and exceptionally skilled,” lauds Little Minx president Rhea Scott. “She has a finely tuned artistic and intellectual curiosity that drives her to seek out new styles and master new techniques.”
Cassavetes just finished production on her highly anticipated 2015 feature film Day Out of Days. She is the latest filmmaker to join Little Minx in recent months, following such directors as Caleb Slain, Los Perez and Luca Guadagnino.
First-Time Feature Directors Make Major Splash At AFI Fest, Generate Oscar Buzz
Two first-time feature directors who are generating Oscar buzz this awards season were front and center this past weekend at AFI Fest in Hollywood. Rachel Morrison, who made history as the first woman nominated for a Best Cinematography Oscar---on the strength of Mudbound in 2018--brought her feature directorial debut, The Fire Inside (Amazon MGM Studios), to the festival on Sunday (10/27), and shared insights into the film during a conversation session immediately following the screening. This came a day after William Goldenberg, an Oscar-winning editor for Argo in 2013, had his initial foray into feature directing, Unstoppable (Amazon MGM Studios), showcased at the AFI proceedings. He too spoke after the screening during a panel discussion. The Fire Inside--which made its world premiere at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival--tells the story of Claressa “T-Rex” Shields (portrayed by Ryan Destiny), a Black boxer from Flint, Mich., who trained to become the first woman in U.S. history to win an Olympic Gold Medal in the sport. She achieved this feat--with the help of coach Jason Crutchfield (Brian Tyree Henry)--only to find that her victory at the Summer Games came with relatively little fanfare and no endorsement deals. So much for the hope that the historic accomplishment would be a ticket out of socioeconomic purgatory for Shields and her family. It seemed like yet another setback in a cycle of adversity throughout Shields’ life but she persevered, going on to win her second Gold Medal at the next Olympics and becoming a champion for gender equality and equitable pay for women in sports. Shields has served as a source of inspiration for woman athletes worldwide--as well as to the community of... Read More