BeachHouse Films, a Santa Monica-based house under the aegis of executive producers Dave and Patti Coulter, has signed director Noel Castley-Wright for spot representation in the U.S. Prior to branching out into directing commercials four years ago, Castley-Wright was best known as a leading visual effects artisan, primarily on the strength of his work at Company 3, Santa Monica.
During his Company 3 tenure, Castley-Wright was visual effects supervisor/artist on assorted notable commercials, including Nike’s “The Morning After” directed by Spike Jonze of now defunct Satellite (he is now with bicoastal/international MJZ) for Wieden+Kennedy, Portland, Ore., and Apple’s “Think Different” directed by Jennifer Golub of TBWA/Chiat/Day, San Francisco. Both spots won the coveted primetime commercial Emmy Award; “The Morning After” also copped a Gold Lion at the Cannes International Advertising Festival.
After departing Company 3, Castley-Wright set up his own visual effects boutique, Platypus, in 2002. That venture was on the Company 3 premises. During his year at Platypus he not only contributed effects to varied jobs, but also started to direct with a couple of spec projects.
In ’03, Castley-Wright moved his family back to Australia, where he opened his own production house, Oxygen Pictures, through which he helmed visual effects/live-action spots. At Oxygen, with offices in Sydney and Perth, Castley-Wright also diversified into people and dialogue-driven commercials. Though he and his family recently came back to live in Southern California, Castley-Wright will continue to be repped Down Under via Oxygen. His latest assignment at Oxygen was a three-spot package for Ikea.
Castley-Wright comes aboard a BeachHouse directorial roster that includes Larry Carroll, Jeff Gordon, Brandon Kraines, Domenic Mastrippolito, Des Mullan and director/DP Gordon Willis Jr.
House Calls Via TV and Streamers: A Rundown of The Season’s Doctor Dramas
No matter your ailment, there are plenty of TV doctors waiting to treat you right now on a selection of channels and streamers.
Whether it's Noah Wyle putting on his stethoscope for the first time since "ER," Morris Chestnut graduating to head doctor, Molly Parker making her debut in scrubs or Joshua Jackson trading death for life on a luxury cruise, new American hospital dramas have something for everyone.
There's also an outsider trying to make a difference in "Berlin ER," as Haley Louise Jones plays the new boss of a struggling German hospital's emergency department. The show's doors slide open to patients Wednesday on Apple TV+.
These shows all contain the DNA of classic hospital dramas โ and this guide will help you get the TV treatment you need.
"Berlin ER"
Dr. Suzanna "Zanna" Parker has been sent to run the Krank, which is only just being held together by hardened โ and authority-resistant โ medical staff and supplies from a sex shop. The result is an unflinching drama set in an underfunded, underappreciated and understaffed emergency department, where the staff is as traumatized as the patients, but hide it much better.
From former real-life ER doc Samuel Jefferson and also starring Slavko Popadiฤ, ลafak ลengรผl, Aram Tafreshian and Samirah Breuer, the German-language show is not for the faint of heart.
Jones says she eventually got used to the blood and gore on the set.
"It's gruesome in the beginning, highly unnerving. And then at some point, it's just the most normal thing in the world," she explains. "That's flesh. That's the rest of someone's leg, you know, let's just move on and have coffee or whatever."
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