Editor Erin Nordstrom, whose body of work spans commercials, documentary and music video work, has joined creative editorial shop Spot Welders. Nordstrom will be based in the company’s Los Angeles office, but will be available to its New York and East Coast-based agency clients as well. Her signing was announced by Spot Welders’ managing partner David Glean.
Nordstrom joins Spot Welders from the Santa Monica office of Optimus, where she’s been for the past six years. Prior to that she spent seven years freelancing for a range of agencies and postproduction companies in Southern California. A graduate of Indiana University, she started her career with a small editorial company in L.A. that worked frequently for the boutique creative agency Ground Zero. She eventually joined the agency as its staff editor, where campaigns she worked on for clients like ESPN and others won numerous Belding and One Show awards.
Nordstrom describes her freelance years as a time when her work “ran the gamut of what you could do as an editor. It was a great learning experience, and forced me to exercise lots of creative muscles.” She made countless connections with filmmakers, creatives and producers, many of which have opened doors for her creatively.
For example, during her time at Ground Zero, one of the producers hooked her up with a still photographer who was working on building a director’s reel. The result of that collaboration was her editing an award-winning documentary on the band Wilco titled I Am Trying to Break Your Heart.
Later during Nordstrom’s stay at Optimus, her EP connected her with a producer who was working on a passion project about a headstrong artist who frequently clashed with the patrons who hired him to carve intricate caves out of desert sandstone formations. The resulting film, Cave Digger, directed by Jeffrey Karoff, was nominated for a Best Short Subject Documentary Oscar in 2014.
On the ad front, Nordstrom’s credits include spots that range from emotional to comedic for such brands as Activision, Columbia Sportswear, Samsung, Taco Bell, Motorola and Honda.
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