Synthetic Pictures has signed director Erik Anderson whose specialities include docu-style, lifestyle and automotive content. His clients include Microsoft, Riddell, Maria Stopes International, and the Rockefeller Foundation. Anderson’s new Riddell spot was recently shortlisted for the Clio Sports competition.
Anderson’s first projects with Synthetic include co-directing with Justin Corsbie a real people campaign for Williamsburg, Virginia Tourism through Luckie & Co., and collaborating with Team
Detroit on a potential docu-style campaign for Ford.
Anderson earned inclusion into SHOOT’s 2013 New Directors Showcase largely on the basis of his Chevrolet spec piece titled “Heirloom.” While at Art Center College of Design, Anderson directed his speculative work for Chevrolet, as well as the documentary, Hands in the Mist.
Anderson said he was drawn to Synthetic by company founder Corsbie and executive producer Allison Smith and their ability and commitment to nurture and steer his career.
Founded in 2002, Synthetic Pictures has offices in L.A., Austin and New York. In addition to a roster of live-action directors, Synthetic has a visual effects division, SP/FX. Synthetic specializes in commercials, branded content and filmed entertainment. The company has worked with agencies including BBDO, Leo Burnett, Doner, Pitch, Agencies of Change, Pereira & O’Dell, Publicis, JWT, R&R, Loomis, Ramey, Integer Group, White & Partners, and Wunderman on projects for clients such as Chrysler, Dell, Vegas Tourism, Dodge, HBO, Jennie-O, Shell, MasterCard, Procter & Gamble, Special K, Land Rover, Dairy Queen, Burger King, Reebok, Sony, Wal-Mart, DreamWorks, and the American Red Cross.
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