Animation director Kirk Hendry has joined Paris-based production house Troublemakers. Hendry’s work spans commercials, shorts, music videos and a feature film. It is alongside Neil Boyle that Hendry has directed his debut feature, Kensuke’s Kingdom. This beautiful hand-drawn adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s classic novel was an official selection at Annecy 2023 and will be released in France in February….
Toronto-based Fort York VFX is bringing a splash of color to its facility, with industry veteran Jason Zukowski joining the 10-year-old postproduction company as sr. colorist. Zukowski worked as a DP, editor, and director before finding his professional niche in color. His career has included stops at Notch, Redlab and Studio Feather, where he contributed to award-winning campaigns for brands including Sapporo, Skittles, Huggies, and Land Rover. Fort York VFX creative director and partner Mike Bishop said the company had been hoping to add color grading capabilities for some time but needed to find the right person to successfully expand its offering. Helping bring the launch to life is Pallavi Joshi-Firby whose two years at Fort York VFX as an executive producer thus far have familiarized her with the company’s culture and workflow. Her experience in color and VFX, drawn from her time at Alter Ego, Redlab and BBDO’s Ricochet, paired with her familiarity with Zukowski thanks to her time at Redlab, made her insight and guidance invaluable to Fort York’s diversification. The company is rounding out its color team with sr. color assistant Jose Torres, who has most recently been working as a freelance colorist, but got his start as a color and online assistant with Redlab….
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