Director Diego Contreras has joined RESET for branded content and commercials worldwide. His work spans such clients as Reebok, Lincoln Motors, Stoli Vodka, 23andMe, Blue Moon and the U.S. Air Force for agencies including Droga5, Venables Bell and Partners, The Martin Agency, Anomaly, Publicis Paris, and Hudson Rouge.
Debuting earlier this year was the Contreras-directed You Can’t Unring a Bell, a film in the “Unimpossible Missions” series of shorts from BBDO New York which demonstrates how client GE is tackling some of the world’s toughest challenges through innovation and out-of-the-box thinking. The “You Can’t Unring a Bell” challenge was solved by GE grand prize winner Chris Nguyen, a biomedical engineering student at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. The unringing of a bell was brought to life and captured on film by Contreras who at the time was with production house Bullitt, his most recent roost prior to joining RESET.
Among the initial marks made by Contreras as a director was his earning a slot in SHOOT’s 2014 New Directors Showcase unveiled at the DGA Theatre in NYC. Prior to becoming a full-time director, Contreras worked as an associate creative director and art director at agencies such as BBDO NY, Anomaly, and Crispin Porter+ Bogusky.
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