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    1) Less is more! Limit your reel to the shortest, most impactful version of your very best work. Prospective clients/producers will only ever remember one or two films. Don’t use a montage of your work, we can’t judge the quality of the work through a bite-sized clip set to music. Make sure you have the flexibility in your contract with production companies/reps/agents to be your own agent when you need to, work comes from all kinds of different sources and sometimes a project might be a great fit for you as a director but a conflict for your production company.

    2) If you’re an up-and-coming Agency Producer make sure you learn as much as possible about Line Producing and how it works, agencies are going to be using this skill set more and more. Learn everything you can from legacy production models, producers and production companies but understand what makes efficient and low-cost production happen. Connect and network with the newer, independent directors, line producers, editors and the innovative production companies that are expert in this. Try hard to advocate for the more unexpected director choice if you feel its the best one, they will often deliver far above and beyond when they are slightly challenged.

    Rowley Samuel
    EVP, head of integrated production
    Energy BBDO



    Jacob Elordi Is On A Roll With Roles For Directors Sofia Coppola, Guillermo del Toro and Paul Schrader

    Thursday, December 19, 2024

    Jacob Elordi is suddenly everywhere in Hollywood — so much so that he thinks he must be dreaming.

    Amid a remarkable streak of high-profile projects with respected filmmakers — Sofia Coppola's "Priscilla," Guillermo del Toro's upcoming adaptation of "Frankenstein" and, in theaters now, Paul Schrader's "Oh, Canada" — the 27-year-old isn't taking his success for granted.

    "I don't want to be so arrogant as to say like, you know, 'I choose what is befitting of me,'" he said in an exclusive interview. "I'm very grateful because to say you choose these things sort of seems too conscious or something. I kind of am in a constant state of like, 'Wake me up from this.'"

    "Oh, Canada" tells the story of Leonard Fife (Richard Gere), an acclaimed documentarian on his deathbed who, in what becomes a final act of confession, agrees to have the cameras turned toward him for a documentary about his own life.

    Elordi plays a young Fife in the film, based on Russell Banks' 2021 novel, "Foregone." Despite their physical differences, Elordi's performance as a younger Gere is believable, thanks in part to the amount of effort he put into studying Gere's mannerisms.

    "Richard has such a rich career of films and a really diverse range of films so there was a lot to watch and just kind of copy him, you know? Like Simon Says or something," Elordi said. "The best one for physicality was 'American Gigolo,' because I think he was 29 or something when he made that film. So, it's, you know, not far from where I am now."

    Schrader is not known for making big-budget blockbusters. And while the filmmaker has reaped critical praise throughout his prolific career, he's made his share of panned flops.

    But that hasn't stopped the 78-year-old from... Read More

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