Director Jaci Judelson has joined Tool for spot and branded content representation in the U.S. and internationally. She was previously handled by production house HSI
With a background in fashion and culture, Judelson has directed commercials, documentaries and content-driven branded entertainment. She helmed the documentary series Undressed: Fashion in the 20th Century, featuring fashion icons like Karl Lagerfeld, Ralph Lauren, Calvin Klein, Jil Sander and Mario Testino. The four-part docu-series was broadcast internationally on Channel Four, Bravo and Canal+.
Judelson also directed Tina Barney: Social Studies, which premiered at the Barbican Museum in London, aired on the Sundance Channel, and was greeted with critical acclaim on the international film festival circuit. She additionally directed Je m’appelle Gréco, an intimate view of the legendary French singer, Juliette Gréco, and the recently-completed Sundance film series, Single Stories.
Judelson has experienced success across commercial worlds both in the U.S. and in Europe, where she also resides, and often takes the lead on photography for her clients’ print campaigns as well. She’s worked with clients like Nokia, L’Oréal, Evian, Match.com, Gap, France Telecom and Dove, for their “Real Women” series. In addition, she has created branded content and films for clients such as BMW, Ralph Lauren, H&M, Vogue Paris, and GQ. On the social action side, Judelson has directed AIDS public service commercials, as well as the “Vote From Abroad” internet campaign for President Obama’s 2008 election run.
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