Commercial production company LightHouse Films has added executive producer Susie Shuttleworth to its team.
Shuttleworth has more than 20 years of high-profile industry experience, which includes launching her own live-action production company, Division 6, in 1995. She has acquired extensive executive experience within the creative industry, spending five years in dual roles as both executive producer and marketing executive for network branding firm PMcD Design NYC, and then at Johnson + Wolverton, a commercial brand agency with offices in Portland, New York, and Amsterdam. She later tackled EP duties for creative agencies Nth Degree and Leroy + Clarkson, until landing with BBH as postproduction EP for the GM/Cadillac account in 2011.
Shuttleworth has been creative EP on more than 30 network launches and rebrands, most recently the 2012 PromaxBDA award-winning brand package for Comedy Central. Prior to signing at LightHouse, she spent three years as commercial and post EP at Alkemy X and production lead at Mill+, handling multiple live action and VFX projects.
LightHouse Films represents a roster of directors including Anthony Pellino, Antoine Pai, Camille de Galbert, Johan Stahl, Julien Rocher, Pepe Lansky, and Romain Quirot. Their work ranges from live-action to doc-style, and visual storytelling to food/tabletop. Some recent clients include Kohler, Garmin, Stainmaster, Spalding, Moe’s Southwest Grill, AirBnB, IKEA, Carrier, Stella Artois, Footaction, University of Phoenix, and Johnson & Johnson.
Review: Writer-Director Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substance”
In its first two hours, "The Substance" is a well-made, entertaining movie. Writer-director Coralie Fargeat treats audiences to a heavy dose of biting social commentary on ageism and sexism in Hollywood, with a spoonful of sugar- and sparkle-doused body horror.
But the film's deliciously unhinged, blood-soaked and inevitably polarizing third act is what makes it unforgettable.
What begins as a dread-inducing but still relatively palatable sci-fi flick spirals deeper into absurdism and violence, eventually erupting — quite literally — into a full-blown monster movie. Let the viewer decide who the monster is.
Fargeat — who won best screenplay at this year's Cannes Film Festival — has been vocal about her reverence for "The Fly" director David Cronenberg, and fans of the godfather of body horror will see his unmistakable influence. But "The Substance" is also wholly unique and benefits from Fargeat's perspective, which, according to the French filmmaker, has involved extensive grappling with her own relationship to her body and society's scrutiny.
"The Substance" tells the story of Elisabeth Sparkle, a famed aerobics instructor with a televised show, played by a powerfully vulnerable Demi Moore. Sparkle is fired on her 50th birthday by a ruthless executive — a perfectly cast Dennis Quaid, who nails sleazy and gross.
Feeling rejected by a town that once loved her and despairing over her bygone star power, Sparkle learns from a handsome young nurse about a black-market drug that promises to create a "younger, more beautiful, more perfect" version of its user. Though she initially tosses the phone number in the trash, she soon fishes it out in a desperate panic and places an order.
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