PRETTYBIRD UK has signed director Jim Longden who’s wrapped his first music video after joining the company. The promo for Jaxxon D Silva’s track “Crack in the Mask” features the artist playing an imprisoned character talking to his alter ego. Longden started working with Silva a decade ago when he shot his album and single cover artworks, developing a creative partnership in 2022 when they collaborated on the performer’s short film Don’t Look at Me. Longden is a 23 year-old filmmaker and photographer. After leaving school at 16, he started taking photographs and went on to be featured in publications including Vogue and Love Magazine. In December, Nowness will be showing all three of Longden’s short films. He made his debut short film To Erase A Cloud when he was 20 years old, followed by Don’t Look At Me when he had just turned 22, and his third short film Puddle of Muddles at the age of 23. Longden’s debut feature film, Superfluous, is now in development, and will enter production in 2024. Longden directs, writes, edits, composes and produces his films with the aim of creating a truly authentic and unique vision, In addition to PRETTYBIRD in the U.K., he is repped in France by Henry.TV, and in Germany by RadicalMedia…
Female directing duo XOXO–consisting of Tessa Doniga Johnson and Paula Martin-Ferro Sancho–will be represented in the U.K. by Pulse Films for commercial projects and music videos. The duo’s body of work spans such brands as Meta, Sephora, jean Paul Gautier and Ikea. XOXO comes aboard Pulse’s U.K. roster at an eventful time, with Mino Jarjoura recently joining as global president for commercials and music videos, and vets Jamie Walker and Chris Harrington heading up the U.K. division…
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