Finger Music & Sound Design has secured Meredyth Mann as its East Coast representative. Mann is the founder and owner of Bespoke360, a new boutique talent representation firm. She started in the advertising business in Ogilvy & Mather's production department and moved to sales in '05. Prior to Bespoke360, she was head of sales for Compulsive Pictures during a three-and-a-half-year stretch….Cynthia Mudd has joined Holiday Films, Toronto, as director of marketing. Mudd's past experience in commercial film production included sales and marketing positions at Toronto-based production companies Radke Films and Brown Entertainment. At her new roost she will working with Holiday exec producers Derek Sewell and Josefina Nadurata….DP Doug Chamberlain, who's repped by Innovative Artists, recently wrapped the feature project Maladies starring James Franco and Catherine Keener. And production designer Peter Benson, also of Innovative Artists, recently finished a Toyota project directed by Geordie Stephens from Tool of North America and is now available for upcoming film and commercial work….
Karla SofÃa Gascón Could Make Trans History For Role In “Emilia Pérez”
Karla SofÃa Gascón's performance in "Emilia Pérez" as a Mexican drug lord who undergoes gender affirmation surgery to become a woman has brought her global acclaim and set Gascón on a path that may make her the first openly transgender actor ever nominated for an Oscar. But on this morning, she's feeling contemplative. "I woke up with such a philosophical streak," Gascón says, smiling. "In life, everything can be good or bad. We are a mix of so many things. There are things that make you happy and instead they make you sad, or the other way around." The dichotomies of life are a fitting subject for Jacques Audiard's "Emilia Pérez," a film that puts just about every genre — musical, crime thriller, melodrama — into a grandiose mixer, and, by sheer nerve, manages to coalesce into one of the year's most memorable movie experiences. "Emilia Pérez," which began streaming Wednesday on Netflix, is widely expected to be a best picture nominee. At the center of the "Emilia Pérez" phenomenon – which began with a barn-storming premiere at the Cannes Film Festival — is Gascón who plays both the menacing cartel kingpin Manitas and the woman who emerges after Manitas fakes his own death, Emilia Pérez. Years later, Emilia contacts the lawyer who facilitated her transition (Zoe Saldaña) to her reunite with her wife (Selena Gomez) and their children. The wild swings of "Emilia Pérez" – a movie that has earned comparisons to both "Sicario" and "Mrs. Doubtfire" – wouldn't be possible without Gascón. In Cannes, she and her co-stars shared in the best actress prize, which Gascón accepted. "We've been insulted, denigrated, subjected to a lot of violence without even knowing why," Gascón said that evening. "I think this is award is so much more... Read More