Directing duo rubberband.–comprised of New Yorkers Jason Filmore Sondock and Simon Davis–has signed with SMUGGLER for worldwide representation spanning commercials, branded content and music videos. Recently rubberband. has taken the award show circuit by storm winning honors at the 1.4 Awards, YDA, Ciclope, YG17 Finalist and Kinsale Shark Awards. Additionally, the duo’s work has earned four Vimeo Staff Picks with their two most recent music videos, “My Side” for lophile and “Some Place Else” for MorMor, receiving recognition.
Commercial credits for rubberband. include such brands as Under Armour, Calvin Klein, Fender, Moncler, Burberry, Away, Raf Simons, and Alexander Wang. The directing duo’s music projects include artists LCD Soundsystem, Goldlink, ZHU, Alunageorge, and Bryson Tiller. Work from rubberband. has also garnered many festival selections (SXSW, LAFF, Cleveland, Sur l’Art Montreal, SUFF). Additional accolades include a Los Angeles Film Festival Selection (2018), Silver Clio for Integrated Campaign (2018), and a Milano Fashion Film Festival Selection (2019).
Sondock and Davis first met at Tisch’s Kanbar Institute of Film and TV at NYU and have been working under the rubberband. moniker ever since. Prior to joining SMUGGLER, rubberband. had been at production houses Cadence and the London office of Moxie Pictures.
“Simon and Jason are a shot in the arm. They have the personality, taste, ambition and that relentless work ethic that helps great directors want to beat a path to the top. There is a definite flavor and a point of view that was immediately apparent to us all. They are on a very exciting and inspiring journey,” said SMUGGLER co-founder Brian Carmody.
A joint statement from Sondock and Davis read, “We’ve never been the kind of people to have long-winded explanations for why we do what we do. We’re interested in producing work that pushes creative boundaries alongside genuinely great people. SMUGGLER is the epitome of both.”
Juliette Welfling Takes On A Musical, A Crime Thriller, Comedy and Drama In “Emelia Pérez”
Editor Juliette Welfling has a track record of close-knit, heartfelt collaboration with writer-director Jacques Audiard, a four-time BAFTA Award nominee for Best Film not in the English Language--starting with The Beat That My Heart Skipped in 2006, then A Prophet in 2010, Rust and Bone in 2013, and Dheepan in 2017. He won for The Beat That My Heart Skipped and A Prophet.
Welfling cut three of those features: A Prophet, Rust and Bone, and Dheepan. And that shared filmography has since grown to most recently include Emelia Pérez, the Oscar buzz-worthy film from Netflix. Welfling herself is not stranger to Academy Award banter. In fact, she earned a Best Achievement in Film Editing Oscar nomination in 2008 for director Julian Schnabel’s The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.
Emelia Pérez is a hybrid musical/drama/thriller which introduces us to a talented but undervalued lawyer named Rita (portrayed by Zoe Saldana) who receives a lucrative offer out of the blue from a feared drug cartel boss who’s looking to retire from his sordid business and disappear forever by becoming the woman he’s always dreamt of being (Karla SofÃa Gascón in a dual role as Manitas Del Monte/Emilia Pérez). Rita helps pull this off, orchestrating the faked death of Del Monte who leaves behind a widow (Jessi, played by Selena Gomez) and kids. While living comfortably and contently in her/their new identity, Pérez misses the children. Pérez once again enlists Rita--this time to return to family life, reuniting with the kids by pretending to be their aunt, the sister of Del Monte. Now as an aunt, Pérez winds up adopting a more altruistic bent professionally,... Read More