Comedy director and writer Carlyn Hudson has joined Imposter for commercial and branded content representation in the U.S. Hudson has spent the past few years directing sketch comedy for places like CollegeHumor and Funny or Die, where she honed her talent for directing performance-focused, cinematic, and genuinely hilarious comedy pieces. Her work as a filmmaker ranges from absurd, to subtle, to the darkest of comedies. As a commercial director, Hudson has worked with brands such as Jif, Lexus, Hasbro, Kroger, and Annovera, whose spot starring Whitney Cummings earned a Cannes Lion earlier this year. Hudson’s first feature film, the micro-budget relationship comedy The Big Spoon, starred Zach Knighton and Isabelle McNally and premiered at the Austin Film Festival in 2016. Her horror comedy short Waffle premiered in competition at SXSW in 2020. Other recent shorts include dark comedy/sci-fi The Workplace and Nice Ass, also premiering at SXSW. Hudson is currently writing and directing another feature–this time a biting comedy about sex ed–as well as adapting a queer young adult novel into a romcom for Netflix, and a number of other writing projects. She’s based in Los Angeles. Hudson was previously repped as a director in the ad market by Adolescent Content….
Emily Maye, a still photographer turned director, has joined production house Rogue for representation in the U.K. market. Maye is fast defining a whole new angle on shooting sports and the people that play them–from both the professional and amateur ranks, making a break from frenetic action and imbuing all her work with the confidence to shoot real people in real locations and make it feel accessible to audiences. While at USC School of Cinema & Television, Maye found she could write, so went to Columbia University for a screenwriting degree where she also discovered she took beautiful photographs, resulting in an unexpected and much in-demand career. She was initially snapped up by Trek, embedded with the pro-teams at the Tour de France and multiple one day European Classics and by Rapha, photographing their launch into World Tour Sponsorship with Team Sky and several brand lookbooks. This was followed by shooting multiple campaigns with Nike, Puma, Adidas, Tracksmith, Lululemon, The North Face, and ESPN. Eager to continue pushing her unique aesthetic within the brand space and reconnect with her love of moving image, films were a seamlessly natural progression. Her body of film work spans such brands as Nike, Dick’s Sporting Goods, adidas and Dickies…..
Rom-Com Mainstay Hugh Grant Shifts To The Dark Side and He’s Never Been Happier
After some difficulties connecting to a Zoom, Hugh Grant eventually opts to just phone instead.
"Sorry about that," he apologizes. "Tech hell." Grant is no lover of technology. Smart phones, for example, he calls the "devil's tinderbox."
"I think they're killing us. I hate them," he says. "I go on long holidays from them, three or four days at at time. Marvelous."
Hell, and our proximity to it, is a not unrelated topic to Grant's new film, "Heretic." In it, two young Mormon missionaries (Chloe East, Sophie Thatcher) come knocking on a door they'll soon regret visiting. They're welcomed in by Mr. Reed (Grant), an initially charming man who tests their faith in theological debate, and then, in much worse things.
After decades in romantic comedies, Grant has spent the last few years playing narcissists, weirdos and murders, often to the greatest acclaim of his career. But in "Heretic," a horror thriller from A24, Grant's turn to the dark side reaches a new extreme. The actor who once charmingly stammered in "Four Weddings and a Funeral" and who danced to the Pointer Sisters in "Love Actually" is now doing heinous things to young people in a basement.
"It was a challenge," Grant says. "I think human beings need challenges. It makes your beer taste better in the evening if you've climbed a mountain. He was just so wonderfully (expletive)-up."
"Heretic," which opens in theaters Friday, is directed by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, co-writers of "A Quiet Place." In Grant's hands, Mr. Reed is a divinely good baddie — a scholarly creep whose wry monologues pull from a wide range of references, including, fittingly, Radiohead's "Creep."
In an interview, Grant spoke about these and other facets of his character, his journey... Read More