Editor Kevin Zimmerman has joined the roster at Spot Welders in Los Angeles. A comedy and dialogue specialist, he has cut for such brands as Bud Light, Taco Bell, Jell-O, X-Box, Hotels.com, and Capital One. Among his agency clients are shops like Crispin Porter + Bogusky, DDB, Deutsch and 72andSunny.
Zimmerman comes over from NO6 in Santa Monica; prior to that he was with The Whitehouse, also in L.A. He got his start at Mad River Post, where he worked as an assistant before becoming a full-time editor. He was also on the roster at FilmCore and spent several years as a freelance editor working at a range of editorial houses in L.A., New York and Toronto.
The move to Spot Welders reunites Zimmerman with editors he’s worked with in the past, such as Gordon, who was also at Mad River, and Livio Sanchez, with whom he worked at both Mad River and The Whitehouse.
Zimmerman studied film at SUNY in Binghamton, New York before enrolling at Boston University for graduate-level studies in cinematography. He relocated to the West Coast and found himself at Mad River, starting as the vault manager. It was, he recalls, “a right place, right time” kind of move, as he quickly got into editing, drawn to its ability to have more influence on the storytelling process.
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