Shannon Lords has joined Humble as executive producer in Los Angeles. Lords comes over from Warpaint, Morgan Spurlock’s commercial production company, where she served as managing director and executive producer. She is the newest addition to Humble’s growing Los Angeles office, alongside EP Dawn Fanning Moore, and brings a wealth of experience and strong bicoastal ties to the company.
A seasoned production veteran, Lords has worked with dozens of commercial, documentary, and feature directors to develop commercials and branded content for top international brands. Prior to Warpaint, which she helped launch in 2012, Lords spent over a decade as a freelance producer for both feature and commercial projects, working with directors ranging from Barry Levinson and Spike Lee to Noam Murro and Joe Pytka. Over the years Lords has collaborated with many of the top commercial production companies and ad agencies in both New York and Los Angeles, and has delivered work for clients including Apple, Volkswagen, ESPN, Heineken, Coca-Cola, Mercedes, and McDonald’s.
Humble is a bicoastal integrated content studio created in 2006 by founder and president Eric Berkowitz. With sister company Postal, Humble offers full concept-to-completion creative resources, from live action production to full editorial, visual effects, CG, design and postproduction.
Review: Writer-Director Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substance”
In its first two hours, "The Substance" is a well-made, entertaining movie. Writer-director Coralie Fargeat treats audiences to a heavy dose of biting social commentary on ageism and sexism in Hollywood, with a spoonful of sugar- and sparkle-doused body horror.
But the film's deliciously unhinged, blood-soaked and inevitably polarizing third act is what makes it unforgettable.
What begins as a dread-inducing but still relatively palatable sci-fi flick spirals deeper into absurdism and violence, eventually erupting — quite literally — into a full-blown monster movie. Let the viewer decide who the monster is.
Fargeat — who won best screenplay at this year's Cannes Film Festival — has been vocal about her reverence for "The Fly" director David Cronenberg, and fans of the godfather of body horror will see his unmistakable influence. But "The Substance" is also wholly unique and benefits from Fargeat's perspective, which, according to the French filmmaker, has involved extensive grappling with her own relationship to her body and society's scrutiny.
"The Substance" tells the story of Elisabeth Sparkle, a famed aerobics instructor with a televised show, played by a powerfully vulnerable Demi Moore. Sparkle is fired on her 50th birthday by a ruthless executive — a perfectly cast Dennis Quaid, who nails sleazy and gross.
Feeling rejected by a town that once loved her and despairing over her bygone star power, Sparkle learns from a handsome young nurse about a black-market drug that promises to create a "younger, more beautiful, more perfect" version of its user. Though she initially tosses the phone number in the trash, she soon fishes it out in a desperate panic and places an order.
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