Bicoastal ArtClass has signed advertising creative-turned-filmmaker Tatjana Green, who makes her entrance into the U.S. market. A graduate of the elite Bauhaus Design School in her native Germany, Green saw advertising as a platform for honing her natural eye for aesthetics. Right out of the gate, Green landed her first job at 18 years old as a graphic designer for art house Butter, where she was mentored in all forms of media production. She spent the next eight years working for various European ad agencies including Sillmotion, Red Box Inc., Saatchi & Saatchi Düsseldorf, and Tenzing, before branching out on her own in 2010, establishing the creative studio Brought To You By. One of Green’s first independent projects was the narrative short, Ole Boy, which she co-directed with Jamie Newman. Shot at a local bar in just eight hours, the film is a burst of improv among a lively cast of characters. Green has directed a range of commercials, shorts, series, and music videos, earning recognition from the Webby Awards to screening at international film festivals all over, from Berlin to Toronto. Green’s work spans such brands as P&G, Absolut, Toyota, Tassimo, US Foods, The Economist, Warner, and Walmart. Green was recruited to ArtClass by executive producer Kate Aspell….
Harris Dickinson Toys With Ambiguity In “Babygirl” While Keeping a Secret From Nicole Kidman
Harris Dickinson was nervous to approach Nicole Kidman.
This would not necessarily be notable under normal circumstances, but the English actor had already been cast to star opposite her in the erotic drama "Babygirl," as the intern who initiates an affair with Kidman's buttoned-up CEO. They'd had a zoom with the writer-director Halina Reijn, who was excited by their playful banter and sure that Dickinson would hold his own. And yet when he found himself at the same event as Kidman, shyness took over. He admitted as much to Margaret Qualley, who took things into her own hands and introduced them.
"She helped me break the ice a bit," Dickinson said in a recent interview.
On set would be an entirely different story. Dickinson might not be nearly as "puckishly audacious" as his character Samuel but in the making of "Babygirl," he, Kidman and Reijn had no choice but to dive fearlessly into this exploration of sexual power dynamics, going to intimate, awkward, exhilarating and meme-able places. It's made the film, in theaters Christmas Day, one of the year's must-sees.
"There was an unspoken thing that we adhered to," Dickinson said. "We weren't getting to know each other's personal lives. When we were working and we were the characters, we didn't veer away from the material. I never tried to attach all of the history of Nicole Kidman. Otherwise it probably would have been a bit of a mess."
His is a performance that reconfirms what many in the film world have suspected since his debut seven years ago as a Brooklyn tough questioning his sexuality in Eliza Hittman's "Beach Rats": Dickinson is one of the most exciting young talents around.
Dickinson, 28, grew up in Leytonstone, in East London — the same neck of the woods as... Read More